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    This document discusses the components needed to build effective sentences and provides an exercise for the reader. It identifies nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and determiners as the key parts of speech used in sentences. The reader is prompted to choose words from examples to create their own sentence and identify the parts of speech used. Suggestions are made to then modify the sentence by changing individual words to improve it. In the end, the document emphasizes that understanding parts of speech allows writers to take control of their sentences and make their writing more powerful.

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    This document discusses the components needed to build effective sentences and provides an exercise for the reader. It identifies nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and determiners as the key parts of speech used in sentences. The reader is prompted to choose words from examples to create their own sentence and identify the parts of speech used. Suggestions are made to then modify the sentence by changing individual words to improve it. In the end, the document emphasizes that understanding parts of speech allows writers to take control of their sentences and make their writing more powerful.

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    Building Sentences

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    Mohd Zulkhairi Abdullah
    This document discusses the components needed to build effective sentences and provides an exercise for the reader. It identifies nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and determiners as the key parts of speech used in sentences. The reader is prompted to choose words from examples to create their own sentence and identify the parts of speech used. Suggestions are made to then modify the sentence by changing individual words to improve it. In the end, the document emphasizes that understanding parts of speech allows writers to take control of their sentences and make their writing more powerful.

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    Building sentences

    What do you need to build effective sentences?

    Building sentences
    Noun: a name of something poster, table, George, Denbigh Conjunction: a joining word and, but, with, although Determiner: specifies which one an, the, a, that

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    Verb: a doing or being word jump, feel, be Adverb: describes the action of the verb smoothly, creakily, noisily Adjective: describes the noun huge, silent, vicious

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    An The A Each green large quiet slimy strong energetic ambitious bus snake mountain guitar girl monkey elephant elf slithered dashed bounced hurried squirmed wandered quickly slowly sneakily worriedly fussily cleverly along through down beside past above under a the that this another lane mountain tree cottage caf school valley

    Choose a word from each of the columns to make a sentence. What parts of speech are you using in each column?

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    Put these parts of speech in the order you have used them in your sentences:
    adverb
    noun conjunction determiner

    adjective
    verb

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    Make your sentence make sense!
    Change one noun.

    Change an adjective.
    Change a verb. Change an adverb.

    Read out the new sentence. Is it better?

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    When you take control of your sentences, you can make your writing far more powerful. Think about your choices. Make parts of speech work for you.

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