KINDS OF SENTENCES- SIMPLE, MULTIPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX AND COMPOUND-COMPLEX
Essay Writing: Expository- “Honesty is the Best Legacy”
Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Fisheries and Animal Husbandry
STRUCTURE: Kinds of Sentences
Simple Sentence
Compound Sentence
Compound / Complex Sentence
THE SENTENCE
A Sentence is a group of words that contains a subject and a verbs / and expresses a complete sense or thought.
Types of Sentences
Simple Sentence: This contains one subject and one predicate or verb. It is made up of one main clause. Simple sentences can be long, but each has only one subject and verb unit.
The woman ran.
He is in the room.
The thief has been caught
Compound Sentence: This contains two main clauses linked by co-ordinating conjunctions like and , but, or etc
| Main clause | Conjunction | Main clause |
| The work stops | but | the tools are kept handy. |
| Ngozi found the goat | and | she took it to her mother. |
Multiple Sentence: This contains more than two main clauses linked by co-ordinating conjunctions.
| Main clause 1 | Main clause 2 | Conjunction | Main clause 3 |
| The child climbed onto my laps, | urinated on my trousers | and | smiled at me happily. |
| The choir master returned from the church | and (conj) asked for his flute | but | it could not be found. |
The complex Sentence: This contains one main clause and one or more subordinate clause.
| Subordinate clause | Main clause |
| When it rains, | he does not go to work. |
| Main clause | Subordinate clause |
| Grace did not do the assignment | which the English teacher gave her. |
The Compound Complex sentence: This is made up of two or more main clauses and at least one subordinate clause.
| Main clause 1 | Subordinate clause | Conjunction | Main clause 2 |
| The work stops | when it rains | but | the tools are kept very handy. |
EVALUATION
Write five sentences and mention each type you have written.
ESSAY WRITING: EXPOSITORY
Content
Format (Sample Outline)
An expository essay is one that requires you to explain a thing or a process fully. The explanation demands writing a great deal about what distinguishes the subject of the essay from all other things. It may also involve some description.
Sample Outlines on Expository Essay
Write an article for publication in one of your local newspapers on the need to improve sanitation in your area.
Paragraph
Introduction: The state of sanitation / definition
The need for sanitation
First way to improve (detailed)
Second way to improve (detailed)
Third way to improve (detailed)
Conclusion: Hope that the new measures offered will be used
“A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed”
Write an article to illustrate this saying
Introduction: Say who your friend is
How friendly you are
Another proof that you are good friends,an incident to prove the saying
Conclusion
Evaluation
Write an expository essay on “Honesty is the Best Legacy”
Reading Assignment
Countdown by Evans page19-21
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT: STOCK EXCHANGE and INSURANCE
Stock Exhange is a market where those who wish to buy or sell shares, stocks and government bonds, debentures and other securities can do so through only members of the stock exchange. The stock exchange provides the essential facilities for company and government to raise money for business expansion and development projects through investors who own shares in companies.
Some relevant words:
Stock broker: One who operates in the stock exchange market by linking buyer and sellers of securies.
Security: A paper asset including government debt, company shares and company debt
Stock: This is synonymous to shares
Stock exchange: An institution through which shares are traded/ it is a security market
Bond: A security with a redemption date over a year later than its date of issue.
Shares: Any of the equal, usually small, part into which a company’s capital stock is divided.
Share certificate: A certificate specifying the number of shares owned by a person or a company,
Bond: A certificate issued by a government or a company promising to pay back borrowed money on a specific date.
Debenture: A certificate that acknowledges the existence of a debt of a particular amount owed to somebody.
GENERAL EVALUATION/ REVISION QUESTIONS
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences.
- That ——– is Olumide’s latest acquisition. (a) French green new sports (b) green new French sports (c) new French green sports (d) new green French sports (e) sports French green new
- The fellow actually committed the crime, ————-? (a) didn’t he (b) isn’t he wasn’t (c)he (d) wasn’t it (e) wouldn’t he
- ————– is a dangerous medical condition. (a) asma (b) asmath (c) assma (d) asthma (e) athsma
- You cannot deny a man ————- right to justice. (a) a ( b) any (c) every (d) some (e) the
- The manager is a German, ———–? (a) didn’t he (b) is he (c) isn’t he (d) isn’t it (e) wasn’t he
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