Sentence and Clause

I. Sentence
Definition: Sentence is a group of word that makes complete sense
A/ Sentence can express

- Statement
- Negative Statement
- Question
- Negative Question
- Command
- Negative Command
- Request
- Negative Request
- Exclamation
C. Statement
E.g1 : I love you so much.
: Shes very nice.
: They have been killed so long.
: Im imprisoned.
: Hes a prisoner
: My grandparents were killed in Pol Pot regime
: She curses me in public because I kiss her a kiss along the street
C. Negative Statement
E.g1 : I dont like cat
: My friend isnt a teacher
: She wont answer a phone
: I havent been arrested at that time
C.Question
E.g1 : Do you love me?
: How long have you been imprisoned?
: How far is your house from school?
: How often do you play football a week?
: How well do you love me?
C. Negative Question
E.g1 : Doesnt she love me?
: Wont you go to buy a new T-shirt?
: Have you never been imprisoned?
: Hasnt he lived here for a long time?
C. Command
E.g1 : Go away
: Go out
: Go and kiss her
: Kill her soon
.Negative Command
E.g1 : Dont rape me
: Dont go outside tonight O

: Dont stop learning English part-time
C.Request
E.g1 : Please, accept me to work with you
: Please, could you tell me the time
: Please come in
: Please come on
.Negative Request
E.g1 : Please, dont rape me because Im too young
: Please, dont sit down here
: Please, dont go with the man
: Please, dont ask me to marry you
: Please, dont ride with the man
.Exclamation
E.g1 : How lazy wife is!
: How beautiful you are!
: What day!
: What a beautiful girl she is!
: How well she sings a song!
O.There is four kinds of sentence
Simple Sentence
Compound Sentence
Complex Sentence
Compound and Complex Sentence
E. Simple Sentence
Definition: Simple Sentence is a sentence that has only one finite verb.
9. Finite verb: Finite verb is a verb that can be conjugated with the subject.
E.g1 : I am reading a newspaper
: She is a teacher
: She have been sentenced to death
: You have been sentenced to death.
: He persuaded me to spend a night with him
: He was killed on my way home because of fighting for a prostitute
: It runs to bite a cat 1uicky
: I want to kiss you a bit
: She walks and sees a gate
: She can speak English so well
: Do you go to see a doctor?
: Does he go to see a doctor?

c. All the verb that use after ordinary verb we must use infinitive verb with to.
E.g1 : Fire at that man=

: Please go to the market with me
: Dont go there
: She doesnt speak a bit O

c. Not is adverb . It is modifies the verb and adverb, adjective,
Dont speak


E. Compound Sentence
Definition: Compound Sentence is a Sentence that has two or more simple sentences can be
joined together by conjunction or conjunctions.
E.g1 : She studies English and she studies French
: I learn as well as I work
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: They want to get married and they want to enter University but I dont do that
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: I love her but she loves another.
: Does she love you or do you love her?
: He forced me to enter a monk and he also forced my wife to enter a nun
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: Give me your money, or
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rape you
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: I am smaller than
=pre
you
: I am smaller than
= conj
you are.
. conjunction
. Prepositions
E. Complex Sentence
Definition: Complex Sentence is a sentence that has one:[ Principle Clause, Main Clause, Independence Clause]
and one or more Subordinate Clause.
. Principle Clause is a clause that can stand alone. It means it has full meaning.
. Subordinate Clause is a Clause that cannot stand alone. It means it does not have full meaning.
: One or two girls
: Two or one girl on the hair
P.C : Principle Clause
S.C : Subordinate Clause
E.g1 : The girl whom I love studies with you.
: The girl studies with you= P.C
: Whom I love= S.C
E.g2 : The man who spoke with me was killed yesterday.
: The man was killed yesterday= P.C
: Who spoke with me= S.C
E.g3 : She hates me so much because I cursed her while she was walking past my house.
: She hates me so much
: Because I cursed her; while she was walking past my house.
. Non (prep) = used with, adjective; adverb; noun.
: [I dont know] [where she lives].
: [I work hard] [so that I will pass my exam].
: [If I were you]
S.C
, [I would kill it].
P.C

: [I was my friends wife at that party]
P.C
[as if she was unfriendly].
S.C

: [She had been a singer]
P.C
[before she was seventeen].
S.C

: [My younger brother was killed]
P.C
[after I had passed].
S.C

: To have {have; has}
10. The table that I bought last month is very good.
: The table is very good
P.C
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: That I bought last month
S.C

11. The book which she read yesterday is very nice.
: The book is very nice
P.C

: Which she read yesterday
S.C

12. That dog that is running along the street is mine.
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: That dog is mine
P.C
: That is running along the street
S.C
E. Compound and Complex Sentence
Definition: Compound and Complex Sentences is the sentence that can be used to join together Compound and
Complex Sentences.
E.g1 : I told my brother one problem and I also took a thing that I couldnt understand when a monk spoke to me.
2 : Her father called her back home when she and I met each other behind her house and then her mother come out to
blame me but I ignored.
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3 : She has cursed me and I had slapped her face when her parents arrived.
4 : I have loved her but she doesnt love me.
5 : I have loved her but she doesnt love me because I have no job to do.
6 : I love her because of her beauty.
7 : I had seen a man sleeping on the street before my friend called me and I also asked him a question.
8 : I sing a song before you do.
9 : I go and see the doctor.
10 : Which girl do you love?
11 : The table which I bought yesterday is good.
12 : With whom do you go to P.P?
13 : Of what does it make? Does it make of what?
14 : Do you go to P.P with whom?
15 : With whom do you go to P.P?
16 : Do you go to P.P with whom?
17 : The engineering club has built a building that is thirty meters high and they also built the gate around it.
18 : The government has given presents to people that maybe two million people and it has built the road one-thousand
kilometers long.
19 : My father has told me that you must try to study so you can find a good job to do because the societies need human
resources.

- Principle
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- Subordinate
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- As if
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- Slap
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- The first
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- The end
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- Prostitute
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- Conjugate
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. Definition: Clause is a sentence that is a part of longer sentence but it is not necessary,
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or completely logical.
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. There are two kinds of clauses
. Principle Clause is a Sentence that can stand alone.
. Subordinate Clause is a Sentence that cannot stand alone.
. There are three kind of subordinate Clause:
A/ Noun Clause
B/ Adjective Clause
C/ Adverb Clause

A
1.
Noun Clause

. Definition: Noun Clause is doing the work of Noun.
E.g1. I told [what I knew]

N.C

[When I sit in the room] is so hot.
3. I know [where she lives].
4. You think [that Im crazy].
5. My mother gives [what she has].
6. [What you see every things here] is [what my parent gave me].
7. [What you do] is [what I like].
8. The girl that you love is the girl that I hat.
9. Now, I call you [what your parents named].
10. I told you [what your sweetheart spoke to me yesterday].
11. She gives me [what she wants to give].
12. My parent named me [what they liked].
13. [What I use in my house] is [what I stole from my friend].
14. [What you bought for me] is very good.

.Next month Im going to enter university so I have to know the news of school and I had asked
my girlfriend.
.Can stand the object is: Noun or Pronoun.
. The verb to be dont need object, it needs subject complement.

B1. Adjective Clause

. Adjective Clause is doing the work of Adjective.
E.g1. I knew a boy that stole my pen.
2. The girl who loves me is in my village.
3. He knows the place where she lives.
4. He knows [where she lives].
N.C

5. I go [where she lives].
Adj.C

6. I give her where she lives.


. Tell, Give, Name, Call
E.g. I give [you]
indirect object
[a pen]
. Direct object

I give Dara [a present]
D.O
I give her [a baby].
D.O

I name [a dog].
D.O

I tell him [a story].
D.O

I call you [a dog].
D.O

f. Relative Pronoun Who can be used as:
_. Subject its used for person
E.g. The boy who fought me yesterday lives in Veal Pong.
The girl who loves me is crazy.
A man who was killed along the street is my brother-in-low.
A young girl who calls me
f. Relative Pronoun Whom can be used as:
An adjective its used for person
E.g1 : The boy whom I fought yesterday is your brother.
2 : A young girl whom I rape is very pretty.
3 : A lady whom Mr. Choch asked last month was married yesterday.
4 : An older lady whom I cursed last two weeks is my loves mother.
f. : Relative Pronoun Which can be used a Subject and Object. Its used for thing or animals.
E.g1 : The dog which is running in front of you is mine.
2 : The table which my parents bought from market is the table of Mr. Choch.
3 : The bike Mr. Sreang ride every day is bought from the stealer, Mr. Dara.
4 : The earring which I stole last year is my mother-in-lows one.
5 : The house which is removed down in veal Pong is my sisters house.
f. Relative Pronoun That can be used as a Subject and Object. Its used for person, thing, or
animal.
E.g1 : The girl that I love is your younger sister.
2 : The lady that loves me is very short and fat.
3 : The pen that she got yesterday is broken.
4 : A lot of cows that run through your house are mine.
f. Relative Pronoun Whose is used for Person, Animal, or Thing.
E.g1 : A man whose wife had a birth yesterday is Mr. Ching Ly.
2 : The dog whose legs are broken is mine.
3 : A small whose older sister was raped is Srey Nyss