Name____________________________________ Syntax and Structure (Jan 22)

DO NOW: The Star Wars character Yoda is famous for changing the word order in his sentences. Can you rearrange his words to make them sound normal?

___________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Name____________________________________ Syntax and Structure (Jan 22)

Vocabulary termsSyntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.Text Structure: the organization of sentences and ideas in a text Parallel structure: (also called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence.

Name____________________________________ Syntax and Structure (Jan 22)

Name____________________________________ Syntax and Structure (Jan 22)

Name____________________________________ Syntax and Structure (Jan 22)

Name____________________________________ Syntax and Structure (Jan 22)

SIX TYPES OF TEXT STRUCTURE

Name____________________________________ Syntax and Structure (Jan 22)

DIRECTIONS: Label each mini-text as either Chronological, Problem and Solution, Spatial/Descriptive, Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, or Sequence/Process.

1. The text structure is

________________________

2. The text structure is

________________________

3. The text structure is

________________________

Name____________________________________ Syntax and Structure (Jan 22)

4. The text structure is

________________________

5. The text structure is

________________________

6. The text structure is

________________________