First, a poem must be magicalby Jose Garcia VillaFirst, a poem must be magical,Then musical as a sea-gull.It must be a brightness movingAnd hold secret a bird's flowering.It must be slender as a bell,And it must hold fire as well.It must have the wisdom of bowsAnd it must kneel like a rose.It must be able to hearThe luminance of dove and deer.It must be able to hideWhat it seeks, like a bride.And over all I would like to hoverod, smiling from the poem's cover.A simple sentence normally contains one statement (known as a main clause).A compound sentence contains two or more clauses of equal status, which are normally oine! by a conunction such as an! or but.A comple! sentence is also ma!e up of clauses, but in this case the clauses are not equally balance!. "hey contain a main clause an! one or more subor!inate clauses. A subordinate" dependentclause !epen!s on a main clause for its meaning. "ogether with a main clause, a subor!inate clause forms part of a comple# sentence.A phrase is a group of wor!s without a subect$%erb component, use! as a single part of speech.#inking"$e%uencing Ad%.& enumerates the or!er of sequenceof e%ents(First, "hen)as& use! to in!icate how a person or thing appears, is thought of, etc.&odal verbsmust be (what one must !o, sense of obligation)A gerund is a verbal-a word that is formed from a verb and retains certain characteristics of a verb (e.g., tenses, the ability to take an object) but no longer functions as that part of speech. A gerund always functions as a noun. It is formed by adding ing to the verb.!ecause a gerund functions as any other noun does, we must use the possessive case of nouns that modify it. &odal verbsmust ' base form of the %erb (Almost ())* +ertain)must , ha%e to ' base form of the %erb ("o -ersua!e)"he infnitive phrasebegins with the word to. Thephraseconsists of to, theinfnitive(always a verb), its complements, and its modifers. (Theinfnitive phraseis the object of wants.