Phrases and Clauses 5 December 2012 Phrases and Clauses I) Prepositional and Appositive Phrases Phrase- a few words that do not have a subject or a verb and are one part of speech in a sentence A) Prepositional Phrases Prepositional phrase- preposition with a noun or pronoun following it Ex: near the table and chairs. “Near” is the preposition and “table and chairs” are the objects. 1) Adjectival Phrases Adjectival phrase- a prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun
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SIMPLE SENTENCE A simple sentence‚ also called an independent clause‚ contains a subject and a verb‚ and it expresses a complete thought. In the following simple sentences‚ subjects are in yellow‚ and verbs are in green. A. Some students like to study in the mornings. B. Juan and Arturo play football every afternoon. C. Alicia goes to the library andstudies every day. | The three examples above are all simple sentences. Note that sentence B contains a compound subject‚ and sentence C contains
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Contents Introduction 2 Problem 2 Objectives 3 Solution 4 Doing Nothing 4 Installing extra traffic lights 4 Hiring an extra parking staff to coordinate traffic congestion 5 Improving North and West Parking 5 Methods 6 Cost 8 Benefits 9 Conclusion 10 References 10 Introduction We propose to expand the West and North parking lots of the UAA main campus to greatly reduce traffic congestion‚ to save time for students and staff‚ and to help decrease automobile accidents
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A PARKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM : A CASE STUDY OF GARDEN CITY COMPLEX MUKASA LUYIMA DAVID BCom. BARKATULLAH UNIVERSITY -(INDIA) 2004/PGD18/127U A PROJECT REPORT SUBMITTED TO GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER SCIENCE OF MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SUPERVISOR MR. NIYITEGEKA MICHAEL (Faculty of Computing and Information Technology) APRIL‚ 2006 Declaration I‚ Mukasa Luyima David‚ declare that this project is
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Noun Clauses A NOUN CLAUSE is a group of words with a subject and a verb WHO WHEN WHOM You can recognize a noun clause by one of the relative pronouns or adverbs that begin the clause A noun clause consists of three components: A relative pronoun or adverb A subject A verb Noun clauses function like Uses of Noun Clauses After some verbs and adjectives To include a question in a statement (embedded questions) To report what someone has said or asked Noun clauses
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are always containaining at least one verb. Sentence is now lately called clause. Futhermore‚ a clause that consits of one verb is called simple clause and a clause that consits of more than one verb is called complex clause. To complete the meaning of a sentence‚ the elements object (consists of noun or noun pharase)‚ complement‚ and adjunct (place) should be added because some verbs needs complementations to make the clause makes sense. However‚ there are some verbs that do not need complementations
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Why did Americans pass the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act? During the late 1800s‚ The Gilden Age was in full effect. After the Decade of Crisis‚ when thousands of settlers came to the West in search of gold‚ reconstruction began. While many of these temporary settlers left when the Gold Rush was over‚ some stayed like the Chinese. They worked on the Transcontinental Railroad‚ more commonly as replacements for fellow Irishmen‚ Germans‚ Englishmen‚ or Italians who were unreliable for miscellaneous reasons
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1. Combine the following sentences using adverb clauses at the end of the sentence. 1. We watched the robins. They raised their young in our apple tree. 2. Becky read the book. It was recommended by a friend. 3. Dad donates his suits to charity. He has worn them a year. 4. The policemen delayed the drivers. The wrecks were cleared. 5. Ann ate an apple. She studied her vocabulary. 2. Combine the following sentences using adverb clauses at the beginning of the sentence. 1. Frank started medical
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Chinese exclusion act The Chinese exclusion act was a movement that prohibited Chinese immigration; people used it as a discrimination against Chinese people. In one year Chinese immigration dropped from 40‚000 to 23. This shows how people where violent and discriminant to Chinese fellows. In 1879 an anti-Chinese play was created by Henry Grimm; the point of the document was the problem of Chinese people taking over American jobs‚ this was written in San Francisco‚ CA. In 1879 there was an
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