SS3 English Language: Revision on Structures & Clauses and Summary Writing

English Language SS3 Second Term

Week 1

Contents:

Grammatical Structure: Revision on Sentences and Clauses

Writing a Summary

Grammatical Structure: Revision on Sentences and Clauses

You have learned something about clauses and how they function in sentences and how to build up sentences using different types of clauses. Here are some basic points:

• A clause is a group of words containing a verb and its subject (When he met me yesterday is a clause; five hundred naira is a phrase)
• A clause is a part of a sentence and  a simple sentence is just one clause (He met me yesterday is a simple sentence and it is also a clause)
• Sentences can be simple or they can be compound or complex or a mixture of both; and if they are not simple they are a mixture of both.

Compounds and complex sentences

A compound is said to be compound when it comprises two or more clauses that are of EQUAL importance. Each is called a main clause. They are linked together with one of these conjunctions: and, or, but (sometimes while)

Example: Racheal has catarrh and Moses has a cough

Can I see you or Am I too late?

A sentence is said to be complex when one clause, the main clause is more important than the other or others attached to it, which are therefore ‘subordinate’ or ‘dependent’ clauses. For example:

Although Sani had just a good breakfast, he still felt hungry.

Here two ideas are expressed in two clauses. The more important idea is that Sani felt hungry; so the second clause is the main clause and the first is the subordinate or dependent clause. The first sentence cannot stand on its own but the second can.

A sentence can be a mixture of compound and complex.

Practice:

Identify the main and subordinate clauses in these complex sentences

1. She lends money to anyone who asks for help
2. If corruption is not tackled, this country will go under
3. However hard he tries, he always gets his calculations wrong
4. That businessman , who does not keep proper records, will not succeed
5. That you have lost your savings book doesn’t not surprise me
6. I know you have done your best for me

Practice 2:

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