Clauses in writing
Goals
- Identify sentence structures and clauses in example texts.
- Describe and evaluate the effects of the clause and sentence structure choices in the examples.
Lesson Plan
Looking at clauses and sentences in linguistic detail can give you an extra level of analysis that can be used to open up a text’s depths. The slides in the Activity page in the right hand menu present some examples. The examples include interesting clause structures, all of which seem to be designed to create effects.
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Clauses in composition: Activity
Extract from a charity advertisement:
Nana-Kwame will never see his brothers. He will never see his sisters. He will never see his mother or father. They are dead.
Extract from a charity advertisement:
You can make the difference. You have the power. If you give just £10 we can make huge changes to these children’s lives.
Taken from Louis Sachar, Holes