UNITY

UNITY

OF THOUGHT

•A sentence has unity if it expresses only one main idea.
SENTENCE UNITY

HOW TO
ACHIEVESENT
ENCE UNITY?

Consistent Use of Tenses

• A verb in an adverbial clause generally agrees with the tense of the verb in the main clause.

• Avoid unnecessary shifting from first person to third person or vice versa

Consistent use of Number

• Shifting persons of pronouns will destroy unity. The pronouns must agree with their antecedents

Consistent Use of Persons of pronouns • Do not shift subject in a sentence. Consistent
Use of Subject

• Voice is the aspect of a verb that tellswhether the subjectperforms or receives the action.

Consistent use of Voice

• Mood is an aspect of the verb which indicates whether the action or condition is factual (indicative) or contrary to fact (subjunctive)

Consistentuse of Mood

• Use the same language throughout thesentence. Avoid the use of foreign terms andphrases which have notbeen incorporated into the language. Consistent use of Language

COHERE
NCE

• It means putting ideas in logical order showing their relationship with one another.
The sentence elements should be in proper word order.

COHERENCE

• Avoid misplaced and dangling modifier.

HOW TO
ACHIEVECOHERE
NCE INTHE
SENTENCE?

• A word or phrase that modifies the wrong word.
• Example:
• Faulty: Listening to the radio, bits of news are picked up by the students. MISPLACED
MODIFIER

• A word that the verbal phrase should logically modify is not the sentence .
• Example:
• Faulty: To glean an information, the channel is turned to “Magandang Gabi
Bayan”.

DANGLING
MODIFIER

usually placed before the nouns they modify.

•Phrase and clause modifiers of nouns are usually placed immediately after the words they modify. EMPHASI
S

• The most important detail may be placed in the first sentence or in the last sentence of your paragraph.
If it is in the first sentence, it is said to be
DEDUCTIVE ORDER. If it is placed in the last sentence, it is said to be
INDUCTICE ORDER. The sentence that carries the most important detail is usually the topic sentence.

LOGICAL
ORDER

• Refers to the uniformity in the pattern of the grammatical structures of words, phrases, and sentences within a paragraph. PARALLELISM

• The series of details are arranged in an ascending degree of importance or interest. It is usually used in narratives.

CLIMATIC
ORDER