21st Century Grammar Handbook

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21st century grammar
21st century grammar, transformation, transformation, - - - .pdf;filename*= UTF-8''অনুবাদ চর্চা (প্রথম আলো পত্রিকা থেকে-২৯-০৩-২০২০)-1, 21st century grammar

Set, set, set.

Send, sent, sent. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle forms.
Sent. See send.
Sentence. A sentence is one or more words that express action, condition, or thought, among many other things. Sentences normally include a subject—a thing or person at the focus of the sentence—and a verb—an expression of the action or condition of the subject. Often sentences have a third element as well that receives the action of the verb or characterizes the condition—an object or subject complement.
The three basic elements of the sentence can be stated in many words or just one:
“Unite!” the single-word example is a complete sentence because the imperative mood allows unstated or implied subjects. Restated, the example could read You people should unite which makes the subject more visible. However, not all single words followed by an exclamation point are sentences Termites This lone noun is a sentence fragment. While it has its use for emphasis, it does not have the verb or other components necessary to make it a sentence. And therefore it is not subject to the same rules, patterns, and possibilities as a complete sentence. See also mood.
Distinguishing sentences from fragments is important, especially beyond the limits of single-word constructs, because fragments are usually de cient, unclear statements that need to become full sentences to be understood. And once you do add whatever elements are missing from the sentence, be sure that such statements follow the rules of agreement and are revised in light of all stylistic potentials to make them effective communications. See revision and style.
Beyond the simplest sentence structure of subject, verb, object lies the territory of more complex statements. Phrases, clauses, and word combinations of all sorts can be added to any part of a sentence to emphasize or clarify its meaning. Similarly, any part of a sentence can move to vary the order of words for whatever rhetorical,
stylistic, or other purpose.

Series. Another name fora list is a “series”—more than one somewhat equivalent thing or person presented together I saw Chris, Kim, and Jan Things or people in series are joined and delimited by punctuation and conjunctions. In the example, the punctuation is commas and the conjunction is “and.” In more elaborate lists or series that include commas in the listed items, semicolons set o the serial elements I saw
Chris, who was watching television Kim, who was reading a book and Jan, who was listening to a record More elaborate series can be introduced by a colon,
especially if phrases like the following are used to lead into them The package contains the following items one carburetor, …”
Set, set, set. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle forms. Do not confuse set (meaning to place or position) with “sit” (to take a seat. Set usually has an object, while sit is intransitive and never has an object.

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