10 March 2006

Another Sentence to Consider

Here is a second sentence to consider. Once again, we want to ask ourselves what the sentence shows us structurally, especially in terms of sentence type and verb pattern. So, the following sentence is our second example. Read the sentence closely, and then address the questions that follow.

I unmade the bed, dragged the mattress onto the floor, folded the spread over to serve as padding on the box spring, found an extra blanket in the closet, put a pillow on the mattress, and left a pillow on the box spring. (Parker, 1996, p. 287)

What is the sentence type here, and why? What are the subject-verb combinations? What are the verb patterns here? Once again, the procedure is to leave an explanation as a comment. We’ll find out who sees the sentence clearly and who does not.

Reference: Parker, R. (1996). Chance. New York: Putnam.

5 comments:

Zhiling Zeng said...
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Md khieu said...

This is a simple sentence, because it has only one independent clause. The subject is " I" , and there are seven verb. These seven verb are " unmade, dragged,folded,spread,put, and left" . These verb are function as a whole. The verb is decribing what the subject is doing.

syed m hasan said...

this is a simple sentence because it has one verb and several parralel verb it is a =n independent clause.

thao nguyen said...

This is a simple sentence because it has only one dependent clause. Subject is I and verb- combination is unmade, dragged, folded, found, put, left. We saw that tis sentence was verb 's paralell in the past tense. the sentence with one subject- verb combination is simple sentence.