Thursday, May 24, 2012

Additional Grammar Sentence Pattern Examples


Below are sentences from forum 2 that demonstrate the patterns 1-10. One sentence has a mistake.  Can you find it?

The Be Patterns
I. The science conference    is     today.
II. The witches    are     wicked.
III. The journalists     are     established writers.
The Linking Verb Patterns
IV. The violin     sounds     phenomenal. 
V. My cousin    became     a doctor.
The Intransitive Verb Pattern
VI. The infant     gurgled.
The Transitive Verb Patterns
VII. My mother     baked     a cake.
VIII. My best friend      bought   a stunning necklace       in Shanghai.
IX. The parents     made     the list of chores     long.
X. The judges    picked    the grey goat     as most beautiful.

1. The kids are downstairs.
2. The teachers are excellent.
3. Amy is a doctor.
4. He seems smart.
5. Stacie became a ballet dancer.
6. The baby napped.
7. Chris dropped the football.
8. I hit the tennis ball to Jamie.
9. Harry considers his luck unbelievable.
10. The town considered Bob a hero.
1. My brother is at the park.
2. The receptionist was rude.
3. Josh is a great co-worker.
4. Anita's Kitchen tastes very delicious.
5. The student became a professor.
6. My Mom laughed.
7. My dog bit the mailman.
8. The server gave my family the wrong food.
9. My cousin painted her bedroom purple.
10. The new co-workers considered Josh a hard worker.
Sentence Pattern 1:  NP1 + V-be + ADV/TP
My friends are here.
Sentence Pattern 2: NP1 + V-be + ADJ
My friends are kind.
Sentence Pattern 3: NP1 + V-be + NP1
Mr. Ahmed has been a teacher for fifty years.
Sentence Pattern 4: NP1 + LV + ADJ
The soldier looks worn.
Sentence Pattern 5: NP1 + LV + NP1
The dog became a hero.
Sentence Pattern 6: NP1 + V-int
The girl slept.
Sentence Pattern 7: NP1 + V-tr + NP2
Sarah threw the ball.
Sentence Pattern 8: NP1 + V-tr + NP2 + NP3
The child gave his mother his blanket.
Sentence Pattern 9: NP1 + V-tr + NP2 + ADJ
She found the boy cute.
Sentence Pattern 10: NP1 + V-tr + NP2 + NP2
The country voted Obama president.
Pattern 1: The rock concert was yesterday.
Pattern 2: The cats are sleepy.
Pattern 3:  Mrs. Armstrong is my mother.
Pattern 4:  The guitar solo sounds hard.
Pattern 5: The cats became fat.
Pattern 6: The campers napped after their exhausting walk up the mountain.
Pattern 7: The athlete ran a race.
Pattern 8:  The doctor gave me the prescription.
Pattern 9: The professor made the lecture difficult.
Pattern 10: The children refer to me as their friend.
Pattern 1: The baseball game is tomorrow.
Pattern 2: The receptionist was rude.
Pattern 3: Josh is a great co-worker.
Pattern 4:  Anita's Kitchen tastes very delicious.
Patern 5: The student became a professor.
Pattern 6: My mom laughed.
Pattern 7: My dog bit the mailman.
Pattern 8: The server gave the family the wrong food.
Pattern 9: My cousin painted her bedroom purple.
 Pattern 10: The new co-workers considered Josh a hard-worker.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Additional Week Resources





Pearl Trees is a program that allows you to bookmark your websites.  I will try to put together a tree for each week, but feel free to try to add to mine or build your own to share.  Here's the link for Week 1.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Is The Study of Grammar Going Extinct?

Why does grammar even matter these days?  We text and email giving little thought to punctuation, spelling, and organization, so is the study of grammar still relevant to writing and speaking?

I offer you a definitive YES!  Grammar has to be a vital part of our language and the study of language because it gives us a common basis or a set of terminology that allows us to talk about language.

Learning a system of grammar helps facilitate a discussion the dynamics of our ever-changing language. People get frustrated with grammar because it sounds like a rigid set of rules, but it isn't.  Grammar is more about giving yourself options as a writer and a speaker (or tweeter, texter, etc..).

As toddlers, we begin to learn how to talk but  to be able to talk about how to build effective sentences that create meaning for both writer and reader - that is understanding the power of grammar.

So, what do you think? Are we covering a "soon-to-be" dinosaur of a topic this semester or is the study of grammar still worth undertaking?

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Grammar Definitions



Grammar The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.

The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.

A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.

treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.

To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
source: Online Dictionary