Accent/ stress on compound short-long sentences

Content words include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Negative words such as not or never also get stressed because they affect the meaning of the sentence. Modals, too, can change the meaning of a sentence.

• True

• Falso

n this compound sentence, what are the stressed words?

Carmen is smart, and she knows it.

• Carmen, smart, she, knows.

• Carmen , smart, knows.

• Carmen, smart, knows it.

A compound sentence joins to or more independent clauses with a coordinator such as for, and or but

• True

• False

Independent clause contains

• A Subject, an action, complement

• A subject, an action, a complete thought

• A subject, object,complement

There are three sentence types which all have different impacts on writing:

· simple

· compound

· complex

• True

• False

Short simple sentences

• can make their meaning clear, easily and short, and also create emphasis

• can add poetic power and rhythm to your writing—as long as you know how to write a good one, without running out of breath.