Auxiliary Verbs
Hi all,
I’m a primary school teacher and currently doing a piece of descriptive writing with my children using unusual portrait photography.
We’re working on creating a certain atmosphere within the writing and for this many of the children have been omitting auxiliary verbs from their sentences, I.E:
“Birds tweeting in the morning haze, a song of desperation and sorrow sweeping across the fields and streams.”
In a short burst piece of descriptive writing, written for the purpose of creating a specific effect of mystery and slight ambiguity without a specific tense, does this constitute a sentence?
Please help with some clarification on this!
Thanks in advance!
Top answer
gray towel 327 does this constitute a sentence? No. Those are sentence fragments .
- gray towel 327 does this constitute a sentence?
- No.
- Those are sentence fragments .
- Whether you wish to accept such fragments or you wish to insist on complete sentences is your call when you make the assignment.
- In any case, you might want to draw attention to the difference between the two kinds of constructions.
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gray towel 327does this constitute a sentence?
No. Those are sentence fragments.
Whether you wish to accept such fragments or you wish to insist on complete sentences is your call when you make the assignment.
In any case, you might want to draw attention to the difference between the two kinds of constructions.
CJ
0gray towel 327Please help with some clarification on this!
Poetic licence forgives errors of grammar, especially fragments.
I am reminded of the song "My favorite things", which has a 4 lines of noun phrases followed by a fifth line, which is a sentence.
My Favorite Things
by Julie Andrews
Raindrops on roses
Whiskers o
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