Marquis R. Nave: How Important Sentence Structure In Writing

In Chapter 8, the author Marquis R. Nave illustrates how important sentence structure is by pointing out a few important things when forming sentences adequate to use in your writing. He starts by saying that lucid and efficacious word usage to form sentences in writing becomes vital when you need to write papers in a higher education institution. Once the scholar grabs control of his or her ability to communicate their message to the reader lucidly and efficaciously they gain the power to an improved and ordered thought process. Now a person can start to search for new ways of using dialectal to communicate their message in a way not usual to the norm. A scholar only has the power to govern their writing when they correctly put together

The two types of clauses are dependent and independent clauses. Both a dependent and an independent clause have a subject and a verb, but the difference comes with, the independent clause also has a complete thought where the dependent clause does not have a complete thought. The two ways to remove a complete thought is to either add a subordinate conjunction to the sentence or add a relative clause by placing a pronoun at the beginning of the sentence, these acts as an information enhancer on either a person or an object. The most popular relative pronouns are who/whom, that and which. A writer would use who and whom, when referring to people and, that and which when referring to things. Some subordinate conjunctions are because, although, since and until. Both these two things mean that a clause cannot be an independent clause when it has any one of

Only when you correctly use these with correct punctuation, do they qualify for their specific group. The first sentence type is a simple sentence, this must contain a subject, a verb, and a complete thought; this makes it the same as an independent clause. Within a simple sentence, either you can have a compound subject or compound verb; more than two subjects and verbs, or you can have a verb phrase; the main verb plus a helping verb. The second sentence type is a compound sentence. A compound sentence has two or more Independent clauses. The three ways you have to separate these independent clauses are with: 1) A comma plus a coordinating conjunction – also known as FANBOYS. 2) One can add a semi-colon between the two independent clauses. 3) A semi-colon plus a conjunctive adverb plus a comma – the author refers to this as the one, two, three combo. The three rules when you use the semi-colon are to: 1) only use it to separate two or more independent clauses. 2) Those two independent clauses must have a clear and obvious relationship. 3) It is rarely used - ± 2-3 types per page. Also, note that when you make use of a conjunctive adverb, you must follow it with a comma. The third sentence type is a complex sentence, defined as one or more dependent clause(s) plus only one independent clause. The rule added to this is, that if the dependent clause are at the beginning of the sentence, then