S e n t e n c e W r i t i n g1. English Sentence Writing1.1 Types of Sentences1.2 Basic Sentence Patterns1.3 Expanding Basic Sentence Patterns1.4 Sentence Structure Problems 1.5 Subject-Verb Agreement1.1 Types of English Sentences＊Simple Sentence＊Compound Sentence＊Complex Sentence＊Compound-complex sentence＊Declarative Sentence＊Interrogative Sentence＊Imperative Sentence＊Exclamatory Sentence简单句：只包含一个主谓结构且各个成分均由词组构成的句子。
He knows everything about it.复杂句：某个句子成分直接由从属分句表示的句子。
He complained that what you said was not true.并列句：两个或两个以上的简单句由并列连词或其他并列手段连接起来便构成并列句。
Most of us were in the hall, the doors had been closed, and the latecomers had to wait outside.并列复杂句：包含一个或一个以上的复杂句作为并列成分的句子。
They watched television and enjoyed themselves inmensely, but we couldn't see the program because our television was broken.Do you know?The students I teach have made better grades in the past few weeks.The students would have made better grades if they had studied hard.(Simple sentence)(Complex sentence)Do you know?There aren't as many trees here asthere used to be.Did you hear about the new project?Please send my kind regards to yourparents.How it thunders! 雷打得真响啊!(Declarative sentence)(Interrogative sentence)(Imperative sentence)(Exclamatory sentence)1.2 Basic Sentence PatternsSV (subject + intransitive verb)主-动SVC ( subject + linking verb +subject complement )主-动-补SVO (subject + transitive verb +direct object)主-动-宾SVOiOd (subject + transitive verb +indirect object + direct object )主-动-宾-宾SVOC (subject + transitive verb +object + object complement)主-动-宾-补SVThe guests have arrived.Things change.There exist a variety of differentopinions on this question.P.S.There + be是倒装结构,谓语还可以是appear, come, enter, exist, happen,lie, live, occur, remain, rise, seem,stand等。
1、他们讲物质主义，我们讲理想主义。
They preach materialism whereas/while we advocate idealism.2. the School of the Air (the school of the air) 广播学校3. a family tree 家谱4. the See of Sydney 悉尼教廷（see: n. the official seat, or centre of authority, of a bishop 教廷）5. Last evening I went to a do held by our group. 昨晚我去参加了我们组的集会。
（do: n. social function 集会，娱乐宴聚活动）6. They wanted us to have tea, but we said we’d just had it. Then Miss Standish wanted us to have tea and cake. 他们要我吃晚饭，我们说刚吃过，于是斯坦迪什小姐就让我们喝茶、吃点心。
7. That’s a tall story about the town’s high street. 有关这城主街的说法实在令人难以置信。
8. She told me that her18-year-old son was the baby. 她对我说她那18岁的儿子是她子女中最小的。
9. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子？How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger’s lair?1）木已成舟。
What’s done is done.2）Every life has its roses and thorns. 人人都有乐与苦。
3）Like knows like. 英雄识英雄。
On the wall of a church in England there is a sign that says, “A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task are the hope of the world.”在英格兰一座教堂的墙上，有这样一段话：“没有行动的计划不过是梦想，没有计划的行动只能是徒劳，计划与行动并举才是世界的希望。
