Is it difficult to understand sentence structure?

Question

Can you utilize quick and easy tips that allow you to write in a structured format?

Answer 1

Is it difficult to understand sentence structure?

Can you utilize quick and easy tips that allow you to write in a structured format?

Just be mindful that:.Simple English sentences are based on a subject -verb-object (SVO) syntactic arrangement and every word has a function or what is referred to as parts of speech

1. Each part of speech is usually found in specific positions in sentences based on its function. A pronoun usually holds the position of a noun,adjectives usually comes close to the noun while adverbs usually comeafter a verb, articles usually point to nouns and soon A simple sentence can have just a subject and a verb but can be extended to include an object or other phrases or clauses. as it becomes more complex.

2: There are different types of sentences based on the intended meanings. For example , you used an interrogatory sentence to ask questions about sentence structure and added a question mark at the end.. A statement or declarative sentence would have ended with a period or fullstop.

Variations in sentences depend on the writer's style, purpose and audience. Complex sentences would not be used if the audience are young children. Sentences become more complex as phrases or clauses are added, sentences are joined with conjunctions to make compound sentences or sentences are embedded into each other. Your focus should be on communicating meaning once you understand the basic elements highlighted here. If you research the terms in bold and get an understanding of these, you should be able to relax and enjoy speaking and writing.

Answer 2

The structure of a sentence comes from the parts of a sentence, and a sentence can have many parts.

For example, every sentence--such as, "I love you"--has a main noun ("I") and a main verb ("love"). The sentence, "I love you," has another noun, called a "direct object": this noun is "you."

Sentences can also have adjectives and adverbs: In the sentence, "I love you dearly," "dearly" is an adverb, since it "modifies" (i.e., describes) the main verb "love."

A sentence can also have an appositive phrase, a noun phrase that modifies a noun by saying the noun in a different way. In the sentence, "I love you dearly, my sweetest one," "my sweetest one" is an appositive that modifies (says differently) "you." (And "sweetest" is an adjective modifying the noun "one.")

A sentence can also have a participle phrase, a group of words that begins with a participle, which is an -ing, -ed or -n verb. For example, "Having seen your good deeds, I love you dearly, sweetest one." The phrase, "Having seen your good deeds," is a participle phrase that begins with the participle (an -ing verb) "having."

Sentences also have clauses, which are groups of words with a noun and a verb. In the sentence, "Having seen your good deeds, I love you dearly, sweetest one, " the word group, "I love you dearly," is a clause, since it has a noun ("I") and a verb ("love"). But what if we add another clause? How about, "I am searching for a man of virtue"? In this clause, "I" is the noun and "am searching" is the verb (a present participle). If we put this clause in the sentence, we have to add a "subordinating" word to the beginning of it (for reasons that we shall ignore for now), so let's add "because." (There are dozens and dozens of subordinating words.) If we add this clause, we get the following sentence: "Having seen your good deeds, and because I am searching for a man of virtue, I love you dearly, sweetest one."

Some sentences have one or more prepositional phrases, noun phrases that begin with a preposition (e.g., on, to, for, of). The sentence we have been constructing already has two: "for a man" and "of virtue." But lets add another one. How about, "in the light"? If we add it, our sentence will look like this: "Having seen your good deeds, and because I am searching for a man of virtue, I love you dearly, sweetest one, in the light."

But "in the light" of what? In this case, we need another prepositional phrase, "of the morning," and we need to tack this phrase on to the end of "in the light," so that we get "in the light of the morning." Our sentence now looks like this: "Having seen your good deeds, and because I am searching for a man of virtue, I love you dearly, sweetest one, in the light of the morning."

But wouldn't the sentence sound better with another prepositional phrase that contrasts with the image of morning light? How about "in the darkness of the night"? If we add this prepositional phrase to the end of "in the light of the morning," we get this sentence: "Having seen your good deeds, and because I am searching for a man of virtue, I love you dearly, sweetest one, in the light of the morning, and in the darkness of the night."

This sentence can be made even larger and more complex, but let's stop here. If you learn all of the different parts of a sentence, you can begin to experiment with different sentence structures: some can be very logical, others very poetic (and a third group can be both logical and poetic). In my sessions with students, I try to teach them at least one new part of a sentence. Just as you need various objects to build a house (e.g., walls, roof, doors, chimney, windows, etc.), you need various sentence parts (or "grammatical units") to build a sentence. Hopefully, you've learned at least one new part from my Answer, and I encourage you to experiment in your writing by making sentences that have different parts in different places. It's fun!

Answer 3

I think it really depends on the person! Though I'm not sure what you intend to accomplish in "understand[ing] sentence structure." By "sentence structure" I can only assume you mean syntax, i.e. the grammar rules that govern sentence structure. If that is indeed what you mean, then you're already writing in a structured format. If you think learning more about parts of speech and how they relate to each other will help you with your writing, then by all means go for it; School House Rock is a fun and easy resource. However, you probably already have an intuitive knowledge of English sentence structure if you speak it.

Since you tagged this as "creative writing," I suspect my basic answer above might not be very helpful, so I'd also like to point you towards a grammatical (and rhetorical) concept that I think is important to keep in mind when writing: parallel structure, or parallelism. Parallelism is about balancing phrases or clauses with similar grammatical structure. For example, instead of saying, "I like learning and to answer questions," it would be better to say, "I like learning and answering questions," or "I like to learn and answer questions." If you look up more examples of parallel structure and familiarize yourself with it, I think you'll find it easy to identify when it's lacking in your own writing.

P.S., I'm not sure why my title is "Adult with diagnosed ADHD" here, since that doesn't have anything to do with your question. I'm also an undergraduate French major pursuing a minor in Linguistics.