The second session of "Text Production" on October 26th was opened by a conversation about different studies and their subcategories while pointing out the significance of academic writing in all of those studies. The session focused on the eight parts of speech as well as on the "defintion" of a sentence and what it requires. The eight parts of speech, which are defined as noun, determiner, preposition, verb, pronoun, adverb, adjective and conjunction, seem to be essential for determining whether a group of words accounts for simply a phrase, a clause or a whole sentence. A phrase is defined as a group of words that lacks a verb and its subject. A clause is a group of words with a verb and its subject that again is divided into a dependent clause and an independent clause:
Example: If I go to the market (dependent clause), I will buy some milk (independent clause).
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Accordingly a sentence is a clause itself or a group of clauses, that "makes sense". In the course of discussing David Foster Wallace's "Tense Present" we conclusively talked about the so called linking words (which are: be, appear, come across, seem, look, taste, feel, smell and sound) and their usage in sentences containing a relative clause.
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