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Sentence Reading

• The sentence is one of the basic vehicles

of expression used in all types of writing. To

read efficiently you must read sentences

accurately and efficiently. To read sentences

efficiently, you must be able to identify the

important ideas and sort out the less important

information. Besides, you must see how the

parts of a sentence are related.

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Sentence Reading

• I. Identifying the core parts

• Grammatically speaking, the core parts are the

subject and the predicate of the sentence.

“What happens” or “Who does what”

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Sentence Reading

• E.g.

• Animals who do not have to hunt for their food

often get lazy.

• A tall girl in a white dress rushed away into

the trees just beyond the gate to Stevens Park.

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• II. Recognizing relationships among ideas

• 2.1 Coordinate relationships

• two or more ideas are of equal importance;

be connected with a semicolon (;) or by a

comma (,) and a conjunction such as and,

but, or, nor, etc.

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Sentence Reading

• E.g.

• My brother plans to become an accountant,

and my sister is studying law.

• Repetition is a key concept in advertising; a

long series of short ads is more effective than

one long ad.

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• 2.2 Subordinate relationships

• containing subordinate or less important ideas,

the meaning of the subordinate idea depending

on the main part of the sentence

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Sentence Reading• E.g.

• After it rained, Peter cooked hamburgers on

the grill.

• Although I had a sore throat, I went to the

party anyway.

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Sentence Reading• III. Complicated Sentences

• 定语从句 attributive clause：找对修饰对象• If you are a part of the group which you are

addressing, you will be in a position to know the

experiences and problems which are common to all of

you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing

remark about the inedible canteen food or the

chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties.

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Sentence Reading

• 名词从句 noun clause

• 主语从句、宾语从句、表语从句、同位语从句

• it作形式主语或宾语时的真正主语或宾语• This does not mean that ambition is at an end,

that people no longer feel its stirrings and

promptings, but only that, no longer openly

honored, it is less openly professed.

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Sentence Reading• 状语从句• 时间、地点、原因、结果、条件、目的、让步、方式、比较等

• If experiments are planned and carried out

according to plan as faithfully as the reports

in the science journals indicate, then it is

perfectly logical for management to expect

research to produce results measurable in

dollars and cents.