007 Composite Sent Analysis

COMPOSITE SENTENCE ANALYSIS

1. Identify the groups of primary predication

2. Mention the number of clauses and name them.

3. State whether the clauses stand in the relations of coordination or subordination.

4. State the type of coordination in the compound sentence (copulative, disjunctive, adversative, causative-consecutive).

5. State the types of the subordinate clauses in the complex sentence (subject, predicative, object, attributive /relative, appositive/, adverbial).

6. Define the type of the sentence according to the structure (compound, complex, compound-complex, complex-compound).

7. State the type/types of connection between the clauses (syndetic, asyndetic), and means of the clauses introduction (conjunctions, connectives).

8. Draw the scheme of the sentence.

COMPOSITE SENTENCE ANALYSIS example

1 2

It was said | that you could always find a mug in the city

to write a fat cheque for the production of a play || but | when

4 3 5

you came down to business | you discovered | that the main

6

condition was | that the leading part should be played by some

7

pretty lady | in whom he was interested (Maugham)

This is a composite sentence because it contains more than one unit of finite predication. This sentence consists of seven clauses. It is a compound-complex sentence because the clauses stand in relations of independence and those of dependence,

It was said (1) is the first principal (co-ordinate) clause;

that you could always find a mug in the city to write a fat cheque for the production of a play (2) is a subject clause connected by means of the conjunction that;

you discovered (3) is the second principal (co-ordinate) clause. Both principal clauses are joined by means of the adversative conjunction but;

when you came down to business (4) is an adverbial clause of time. It refers to the verb to discover (discovered) in the second principal clause and is connected by means of the conjunction when;

that the main condition was (5)is an object clause. It refers to the verb to discover (discovered) in the second principal clause and is connected by means of the conjunction that;

that the leading part should be played by some pretty lady (6) is a predicative clause. It is connected by means of the conjunction that;

in whom he was interested (7) is an attributive clause (relative restrictive). It refers to the noun lady (the antecedent) and is connected by means of the relative pronoun (in) whom.

The scheme of the sentence:

1 Principal clause		but		3 Principal clause	that
2 Subject clause
		when
			4 Adverbial clause of time			5 Object clause that
						6 Predicative clause
					whom
					7 Attributive clause