Sentence Structure (1): “What you doing?” “Watching the footy!”

Content: "What you doing?" "Watching the footy!"
Q: Which of the previous sentences is a complete sentence? A: Neither! Why? Because neither of them contains a finite verb. To find out what all this means, and why sentence structure is one of the most common problems with student work, come to this session. You'll not regret it.

Lecture Slides and Resources:

Sentence Structure 1 (PowerPoint 172Kb)

Further Reading:

Advice and exercises on sentence structure is in the Academic Writing Style' section at: Barnes, Liz and Gould, Steve (2001), Essay Writing 1' at

http://www.ssdd.uce.ac.uk/learner/writing/writingframe2.htm (accessed: 22 August 2003)

Look at the section Sentence construction' in the site below: OWL at Purdue University (1995-2003), ' at

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html#pwrg (accessed: 22 August 2003)

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