Hello Everyone.

Well here we are in a new month and nothing much has changed. The Christmas season is getting more and more of a feverish reality and I do not want to keep blogging without giving you all a special Christmas treat for the end of 2009.

Thank you.

The Muffin



3.8: The Language of Business and sentence structures.
There are various ways of speaking English. One way is the language of business. This is the most professional and probably the hardest way of speaking English.

When writing a memo or a letter to a dissatisfied customer (should you have any) then it is imperative that you perform different types of sentence structure and form. These are known as the simple, compound and complex sentences.

A simple sentence is the most common and the easiest sentence in the English language and any other language you may choose to study in your lives. An example of a simple sentence is something like the following below:

“I wrote this example”

In English there is a way of writing sentences known as the SVO method. This works like the following:

Subject: The person or thing carrying out the action.
Verb: The action being carried out.
Object: The person or thing having the Verb carried out towards them.

So in the sentence above I am the subject because I am writing the example. Me writing is the verb and the example is the object because I am writing it. Or in other words I am carrying out a verb towards the object.

Compound Sentences
Compound sentences are two simple sentences put together with a connective in between the two sentences. I.E:

“I wrote this example and I don’t like it.”

Notice this time I used a connective. Connectives are words such as: And, Or, However, any word that basically makes two sentences into one.
I am the subject again. The Example is the object and the verb is me writing. “And I don’t like it” is an informative clause but you don’t have to worry about that just yet.

Complex sentences are a lot easier than most think. It’s just a case of weather or not you know how to write them out and if you can think logically.

This example, as bad as it is, is the only example I can think of.

The way a complex sentence works is if you can take out the middle clause and it doesn’t make sense on it’s own, then you have a complex sentence because:

This example is the only example I can think of

I removed the middle clause and the informative sentence still makes sense because it is now a simple sentence.

As bad as it is

This does not make sense on its own.


Thank You for reading my terrible blogs.

The Muffin