Instructions: Choose three of the BSPs (you may count the
passive voice sentences as BSPs) that you composed for last time, and, on separate piece of paper,
expand them by adding several bound modifiers. Write the original and put the expanded version below it. Label each bound modifier in a parenthesis following the bound modifier.
BOUND MODIFIERS:(STRUCTURES THAT CAN BE INSERTED INTO A SENTENCE PATTERN WITHOUT CHANGING THE PATTERN)
HOW TO MAKE SENTENCES THAT HAVE BOUND MODIFIERS IN THEMBound modifiers tend to go into slots: adjectives go before nouns, prepositional phrases tend to follow nouns or verbs, adverbs can move around in sentences, and one-word bound modifiers often begin or end sentences. Here are a couple examples of the sentences you are asked to compose in lesson four. The abbreviations in the parenthesis indicate what bound modifier has preceded the parenthesis. Imitate these two sentences in your E-mail message, but use your own words. sample one: People seem adept at learning to use computers. Nowadays (obm) young (adj) people seem unusually (adv) adept at learning to use these new-fangled (adj) computers quickly (adv) without much help (pp) from their computer-phobic (adj) elders (pp). sample two: Constance smiled. Moreover (obm) the always (adv) agreeable (adj) Constance smiled modestly (adv) at her best (adj) friend (pp) with silver (adj) braces and curly (adj) hair (pp).
DEFINITION OF MAIN CLAUSESA main clause is any basic sentence pattern (BSP) or any BSP plus its bound modifiers.
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