英语句式精要

Part One Essential Sentences
Unit 1 Types of Sentence Structures
1.1 Classification of Sentences
1.2 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 2 Basic Sentence Patterns
2.1 Five Basic Sentence Patterns
2.2 The Existential “There Be...”Structure
2.3 Elements of a Sentence and Their Forms
2.4 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 3 The Essential Sentence Element--Finite Verbs
3.1 Tense and Voice
3.2 The Subjunctive Mood
3.3 Deductive “Must”
3.4 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 4 The Important Sentence Element—Non-finites
4.1 Functions of Non-finites
4.2 Tenses and Voices of Non-finites
4.3 Commonly Used Non-finite Structures
4.4 The Idiomatic Use of Non-finites
4.5 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 5 Sentence Combining—Co-ordination
5.1 Coordinate(Compound) Sentences
5.2 Coordinate Conjunctions
5.3 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 6 Sentence Combining—Subordination
6.1 The Noun Clause
6.2 The Attributive Clause
6.3 The Adverbial Clause
6.4 Reading and Writing Skills
6.5 Reading and Writing Activities
Part Two Effective Sentences
Unit 1 Sentence Emphasis
1.1 The Emphatic “It”
1.2 The Anticipatory “It”(The Introductory “It”)
1.3 The Auxiliary Verb “Do”
1.4 The What-clause
1.5 The Rhetorical Question
1.6 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 2 Sentence Inversion and Cleft
2.1 Inversion
2.2 Cleft(The Split Sentence)
2.3 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 3 Negation
3.1 Double Negation
3.2 Partial Negation(Semi-negation)
3.3 Transferred Negation
3.4 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 4 Ellipsis
4.1 Ellipsis of the Identical Part
4.2 Ellipsis in Coordinate Sentences
4.3 Ellipsis in Adverbial Clauses
4. 4 Ellipsis in Existential “There Be ...”
4.5 Acceptable Use of Fragment
4.6 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 5 Parallelism
5.1 The Effectiveness of the Parallel Structure
5.2 Parallel Structures
5.3 Parallelism Used in Reading and Writing
5.4 Reading and Writing Skills
5.5 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 6 The Independent Structure--The Nominative Absolute Construction
6.1 The Effective Use of the Nominative Absolute Construction
6.2 The Formation of the Nominative Absolute Construction
6.3 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 7 The Independent Structure--Parenthesis
7.1 The Rhetorical Use of Parenthesis
7.2 Various Parenthesis Constructions
7.3 Semi-parenthesis
7.4 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 8 Sentences with Abstract Nouns
8.1 The Rhetorical Function of the Abstiact Noun
8.2 Commonly Used Expressions
8.3 Reading Skills
8.4 Reading and Writing Activities
General Exercises for Part Two
Part Three Sentence Skills
Unit 1 Unity
1.1 Sentence Unity
1.2 Sentences(Paragraph) Unity
1.3 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 2 Coherence
2.1 Sentence Coherence
2.2 Sentences(Paragraph) Coherence
2.3 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 3 Euphony
3.1 Effective Expressions
3.2 The Employment of Rhymes
Unit 4 Conciseness
4.1 Ways to Achieve Conciseness
4.2 Reading and Writing Activities
Unit 5 Clarity
Unit 6 Variety
6.1 To Vary Sentence Length
6.2 To Vary Sentence Structures
6.3 Loose and Periodic Sentences
General Exercises for Part Three
Appendix Translation for Reference
Bibliography