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[Sentence
Structure] [Scanning]
[Skimming]
[Idea
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Sentence Structure Analysis |
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A second example
is given below to help you understand the passage by
analyzing the sentence structure. Note the sentence is a
sentence not a paragraph although it contains 50 words. |
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The new weapons
in the teenage arsenal (儲藏多種武器的軍火庫:
意謂有多種武器可供使用)
of social cruelty include stealing each other’s screen
names and sending inflammatory(煽動的;
挑撥的)
messages to friends or to objects (事情)
of someone’s affection, forwarding private material to
people for whom it was never intended and anonymously
posting derogatory (侮辱的)
comments about students on Web journals called blogs. |
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At beginning,
the main subject is stated in a phrase: the new weapons
in the teenage arsenal of social cruelty. In such a
phrase, weapons is the actual idea the author wants to
convey. The weapons refers to “the internet” in this
context. The purpose of the internet used by teenagers
is as weapons to fight against social cruelty. What are
these weapons stored in the internet? “Include” is the
only main verb to indicate what these weapons are.
Therefore, three objects followed after the transitive
verb “include” reveal these weapons by using three
gerunds: “stealing”, “forwarding”, and “posting”. About
stealing, teenagers steal names to send false message or
gossips on someone’s affairs. About forwarding, they
forward private message to make it public to everyone.
About posting, they insult and abuse fellow students on
school website. |
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The new
weapons in the teenage arsenal of social cruelty
include
stealing
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Main
Subject
Main Verb |
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other's screen
names
and sending inflammatory messages
to friends or objects of |
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Object 1 |
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someone' s affection,
forwarding
private
material to people for whom it was never |
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Object 2 |
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intended,
and anonymously
posting
derogatory comments about students on Web
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comments about
students on Web journals called blogs. |
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Object 3 |
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青少年對殘酷社會有許多新武器可使用包括盜用別人在網站上的名字然後寄給朋友挑撥是非的訊息或是對別人戀情的八卦,或者寄給不相干人士有隱私的信件,
或者以匿名方式公開在學校網頁上對某些學生辱罵. |
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So you see. In this case, many words convey important
information in simple basic sentence structure rather
than by compound or complex sentence. However, if you
know how a sentence functions by analyzing its
components, it costs you effortless to understand. On
the other hand, if you read word by word and you cannot
connect relationships of these words by their functions,
a sentence like this is confusing and difficult to read. |
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