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Title: Sentence types
Post by: joey7 on March 03, 2013, 10:06:40 pm

Just wondering if someone could help me out on a word class and sentence type question, pretty basic i know but yeah.
What type of sentence would this be: Angela Brad, who dedicated her life to helping others, died recently 
Also what word class would not be classified as in this context: Tim wanted to go not only because the other boys were going..

Title: Re: Sentence types
Post by: Azerel on March 03, 2013, 11:53:04 pm

Hiya, I'm pretty sure the sentence type/mood would be a declarative sentence as it is declaring someones death, a good way of confirming this is to ask whether the sentence is imperative (is it commanding an action?), declarative (simply a statement?), exclamation (is it exclaiming anything?), interrogative (is it a question?)

As for word classes,
Angela Brad would be treated as a Noun, who (pronoun), dedicated (adjective), her (pronoun), life (noun), to (preposition), helping (noun), others (noun), died (verb past participle), recently (adverb)

Hope that helped  ;)

Title: Re: Sentence types
Post by: joey7 on March 04, 2013, 08:07:26 am

Hey thanks for your reply but I meant to say sentence types as in complex compound simple and the word classes as in the sentence following the question

Title: Re: Sentence types
Post by: Kuchiki on March 04, 2013, 09:04:26 am

The sentence structure would be complex, as the sentence contains a dependent clause (who dedicated her life to helping others).

As for "not", I think it would be classed as an adverb.

Title: Re: Sentence types
Post by: joey7 on March 04, 2013, 10:46:10 pm

Thanks heaps man appreciate it