Writing in Short, Readable and Elegant Style

Mahmoud Nourmohammadi

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781528989480
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Writing
• Index: Business

The main aim of this book is to make writing in general and in particular essay, article and paper writing as easy as possible. By achieving this target, the learners can reduce various kinds of long and complicated clauses in verbless clauses, phrases and even in compound noun or nouns.
Writing in Short, Readable and Elegant Style:
- helps English learners develop their knowledge to improve their skills in writing.
- provides an accessible reference for writing essays, articles and papers in short, elegant and academic style.
- includes practical sections in each chapter improving writing skills.
- provides further practices for making long and complicated paragraphs in short and meaningful paragraphs with answer keys.
- includes a lot of phrases which can be reduced to one word.
- is particularly helpful for removing some unnecessary grammatical rules, saving our time.

Chapter 1
Sentence Patterns

BASIC SENTENCE PATTERNS

English sentences, no matter how complex, come from a very few basic sentence patterns. In this unit we shall study these basic sentence patterns systematically as foundations for clear writing and as the basis for building more complex sentence patterns.

Sentence Pattern 1

The first pattern to be discussed is one that is simply limited to actor-action or, to put it another way, to subject-predicate. It has only two basic elements: Noun and Verb. (In sentence pattern 1, as in all the sentence patterns that follow, a pronoun may substitute for a noun.) In this pattern the actor acts, but the action stops with the verb. There are no complements, and there are no objects. The verb in this pattern is called intransitive for the very reason that no action is transferred to an object. Observe the example sentences.

SUBJECT	PREDICATE
Noun	Verb
That man He That banks Many people Gas/Electricity The students Everyone The wind The audience The telephone	teaches. works. opens. are going. flows. are studying. knows. below. began cleaning. laughed.

Make the above sentences negative. Follow these examples.

That man teaches. That man does not teach.

He doesn’t teach.

Make the sentences above interrogative. Follow these examples.

He works. Does he work?

Doesn’t he work?

Sentence Pattern 2

This pattern is only a slight variation of pattern one. In fact, it is formed simply by adding an adverb complement, which gives some information about the verb. Observe the pattern and the example sentences. Remember that a pronoun may substitute for a noun.

SUBJECT	PREDICATE
SUBJECT	VERB	COMPLEMENT
Noun	Verb	Adver b (or) Prepositional Phrase
That teacher He She The technician Mary The singer The musician The teacher The group The astronaut The athlete She	teaches teaches sews works is shopping sings plays works went was invited running sang	in a school. here. beautifully. in a factory. at supermarket. well. there. hard. to that theatre. to mission. twice a week. beautifully.

Make all of the above sentences negative. Follow the examples.

That lady works in a shoe store. That lady does not work in a shoe store.

She doesn’t work in a shoe store.

Make all of the sentences above interrogative. Follow the examples.

John goes to the university. Does John go to the university?

Doesn’t John go to the university?

Sentence Pattern 3

In this sentence pattern, a noun or noun-substitute follows the verb. This new element is called a direct object. The verb is called transitive because it transfers the act...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Sentence Patterns
• Expanding Sentence Patterns
• Chapter 2 What Is a Clause?
• Chapter 3 Conjunctions
• Chapter 4 Phrases
• Chapter 5 Infinitives
• Chapter 6 The ‘-ing’ Form
• Chapter 7 Participles
• Chapter 8 Non-Finite Clauses
• Chapter 9 Passive Voice
• Chapter 10 What Is Ellipsis?
• Chapter 11 Changing from Clauses into Verbless
• Chapter 12 Replacing Some Prepositions or Adverbial Particles
• Answer Key