Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
There are differences between transitive and intransitive verbs, but the most important is that one of them needs an object that will receive the action and the other type doesn't need one.
Transitive Verbs
These types of verbs requires an object to complete their meaning. The object that will be after the transitive verb can be a noun or a pronoun.
Example:
📍 Amelia loves George.
What does Amelia loves? George.
In that sentence Goerge is the object, he receive the action.
Also, there are transitive phrasal verbs that need an object too.
Example:
📍 Luciana run into his mother in law.
In that sentence the mother in law is the object.
Intransitive Verbs
These types of verbs cannot have a direct object; the subject is doing the action of the verb and nothing receives the action.
Example:
📍 She laughs.
Nothing receives the action.
In this type of verbs we also find intransitive phrasal verbs.
You cannot have an object after an intrasitive phrasal verb.
Examples:
📍 No one found out that she was pregnant.
📍 She grew up in Costa Rica.
Sentence patterns
There are 4 types of sentence patterns in Grammar: simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compund-complex sentence. They can have dependant or independant clauses, it depends on what type of sentence pattern we are using.
Let´s review what an dependant and independant clauses are.
Dependant clause: Is a group of words with a subject and a verb but it doesn't express a complete thought, so it's not a sentence and can't stand alone.
Example:
📍 Because I forgot my book.
Independant clause: Is a group of words that contains both subject and predicate.Tthis type of clause express a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence.
Example:
📍 Because I forgot my book, I got sent home.
Coordinating conjuctions
There are only seven coordinating conjuctions; they help to join clauses and two equal parts. They are known as FANBOYS.
F: for
A: and
N: nor
B: but
O: or
Y: yet
S: so
📍If you are going to connect two sentences with FANBOYS you must use a comma.
📍If you are going to use it to connect smaller, equals parts of a sentence it is not necessary to use a comma.
Punctuation
It is very important to know how to use punctuation properly. Let's review how and when we need to use each punctuation mark.
Asterisk: you can use it as a footnote, to provide extra information or a significant chance in time or place.
Parentheses: it can be use as a strong interruption in the flow of the sentence, to provide extra information, to ilustrate options.
Square brackets: to clarify a point, to insert additional information into a direct quote, to add words to a quote.
Colon: to explain something in more detail, after a list.
Semicolon: to link together 2 statments that are related, or 2 statments related but not entirely dependant.
Hyphens: to make compound words, in certain prefixes such as 'ex-' or 'non-', with proper nouns or numbers.
Dash: to add extra information to a sentence.
Quotation mark: to express irony, sarcasm or sceptism, as a speech mark (quotating what someone said).
Question marks: you use it at the end of a direct question.
Exclamation mark: to add emphasis or emotions to a sentence.
Diagonal slash: to separate words in a sentence, to indicate 'or'.
Elipsis: to indicate a hesitation in a sentence.
🚫 Be careful with square brackets and parentheses, the period is outside them.
🚫 Don't over use exclamation marks.
Sentence fragments and Run-on sentences
These are de definition and the characteristic of sentence fragments and run-on sentences.
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