Sentence Types and Sentence Structure
Every sentence can be classified twice, once by how it is built and once by what it does.
What this unit covers
Unit 3: Parts of Speech and Sentence Structure
- 1 The Nature of Language and the Uses of English in NigeriaOver 500 languages are spoken in Nigeria, yet a lecture in Sokoto and a court case in Calabar run in the same one. Why? · 9 min
- 2 Parts of SpeechA word is not a noun or a verb by birth. It becomes one by the job it does in a sentence. · 10 min
- 3 Phrases and ClausesWords team up into phrases, phrases into clauses, and clauses into sentences. Spot the teams and grammar stops being a mystery. · 9 min
- 4 Sentence Types and Sentence StructureEvery sentence can be classified twice, once by how it is built and once by what it does. · 10 min