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«Work makes her happy».
4. Participial phrases (phrases beginning with a participle)
«the girl smiling at her mother».
«the man hidden behind the curtain».
5. Infinitives
«a place to go».
C. Types of Modifiers that precede the Verb:
Auxiliaries («was»; «have» etc.)
Modals («may»; «should» etc.)
D. Types of Modifiers that follow the verb:
1.
adverbs and adverbial phrases
«He will go happily».
«He will go early tomorrow».
2. Prepositional phrases
«He lives in Chicago».
3. Nouns or noun phrases
«He will come home».
E. Types of modifiers that precede the adjective:
1.
Intensifiers (e.g. «extremely»; «unusually»; etc.)
«He is unusually gifted».
2. Nouns
«ice cold»; «sky blue»
3. Adverbs
«sadly beautiful»
F. Types of modifiers that follow the adjective
1.
Prepositional phrases
«ready for anything»
2.
Infinitives
«good to eat»
G. Types of modifiers that precede the adverb
1. Intensifiers
very slowly
H. Types of modifiers that follow the adverb
1. comparatives
(as) slowly as he could.
Exercises:
Now do the exercises related to expanded simple sentence patterns in Unit 1 of Section II [Part II] above.
Then continue with parts III and IV of this Unit (Compound and Complex sentences).
III. Compound Sentences (two or more sentences combined by coordination). The following are the
connectors used:
A. Conjunctions — sentences may be expanded by combining two or more simple sentences in a single
compound sentence. This is done with the use of connecting words called conjunctions (of which there are 7).
«and»; «or»; «nor»; «but»; «for»; «so»; «yet»
These conjunctions may also be used to form compound subjects and predicates in simple sentences: e.g.