Writing inconsistent sentences is a common grammatical error. An inconsistent sentence is two complete sentences that are combined without proper punctuation or conjunctions. If you're taking notes for a specific purpose and are concerned that you might have inconsistent sentences, you first need to learn to recognize common mistakes that lead to inconsistent sentences.

Steps

Understanding independent proposals, to identify inconsistent proposals

Distinguish between independent and dependent clauses. An independent clause has a subject and a predicate. It can be independent and forms a complete thought. For example, "I eat ice cream." It is a complete independent sentence (a complete sentence) because it has a subject "I" and a predicate "to eat".

• An independent clause is the opposite of a dependent clause. A dependent clause also has a subject and a predicate, but it must have an independent clause to be considered complete. For example, "Because I eat ice cream" is addictive because it doesn't make sense on its own; the words "because" require more information.

1. Find the subject in the independent clause. When you look at a set of words that you think of as an independent clause, first find the subject. The subject is that which performs the action. It is a noun that is a person, place, thing, or idea.

   • Consider the sentence "The dog licked the bowl." Who performs the action? The dog is doing the action. This means that the dog is the noun in the sentence.

2. Find the predicate. The predicate is the action in the sentence. It shows what the subject does. In the above sentence, what is the action? What is the dog doing? She licks. "Licked" is a predicate.

   Determine if the sentence has a complete thought. Ask yourself, does this set of words sound like a complete thought? Are there words like "because" in this set that rob the sentence of its own meaning (e.g. "at that time", "when", "what" and so on)? The sentence "The dog licked the bowl" has no such words, so it is considered independent.

   Understand that you must separate independent sentences with punctuation marks. Independent sentences need special punctuation. End with a period, semicolon, or comma and conjunction to separate them from another sentence.

   Look for inconsistent sentences as you reread notes. Read the text slowly. Read it aloud. Think over every offer. Does it have more than one independent proposal? Does it have two subjects and two predicates without proper punctuation? If you find inconsistent proposals, correct them using the following sections.

   • Make sure you use every comma you use correctly, as an incorrect comma can create inconsistent sentences. This issue will be discussed in the next section.

   Recognition and correction of connecting commas

   1. Watch out for connecting commas in your letter. A connecting comma is when two independent sentences are separated by a comma. Look at the two sentences: "The dog licked the bowl, he liked the ice cream." We have already established that "The dog licked the bowl" is an independent sentence.

      • How about "She liked ice cream"? Who is performing the action? In this case, it's "Hey". Yeu is a pronoun that takes the place of a noun. What is the action in the offer? It's a little more difficult to define the action in this sentence, but she "liked" the ice cream, so "liked" the predicate. Is there a word that makes this sentence dependent? No, none. Therefore, "She liked the ice cream" is also an independent proposal.

   2. Correct the connecting commas by adding a period. You have three basic tricks that you can use to correct connecting commas. The first is to simply change the comma to a period and the first letter of the following sentence: “The dog licked the bowl. She liked ice cream."

   3. Change the comma to a semicolon. Another option for correcting connecting commas is to use a semicolon between two sentences. Let's look at our example:

      • “The dog licked the bowl; she liked ice cream.

   4. Add a conjunction to turn part of an inconsistent sentence into a dependent clause. Another way to correct the inconsistency is to add conjunctions such as "and", "but", "neither", "nevertheless", "thus", or "or", depending on the relationship between the two sentences. "And" connects additional clauses; "but" connects conflicting sentences. "Neither" indicates that neither option is suitable. "Or" gives two options. "Nevertheless" is also contradictory. "Thus" basically means "therefore".

      • In our example, the sentences are complementary, although if you choose this method, it makes more sense to reverse the sentences: "The dog liked the ice cream and licked the bowl."
        • You can also use "because" in our example: "The dog licked the bowl because he liked the ice cream." "Because" creates a dependent clause and now the whole clause will consist of a dependent and an independent, which is perfectly acceptable.

   5. Choose a correction method depending on the types of offers you are dealing with. The method you use to separate sentences depends on how they are related. Most likely, a semicolon, or a comma and conjunction would work well, because if you have already separated sentences with commas, then the sentences are most likely closely related.

      • The dot is suitable for independent sentences.

   Correction of other types of inconsistent proposals

   1. Find sentences where there are more than two independent sentences on the same line. Another kind of inconsistent sentences is when there are more than two independent sentences in a line connected by conjunctions. For example, look at the following sentences:

      • "The dog liked the ice cream and licked the bowl, but he didn't finish it." We have already established the first two sections of this text of independent proposals. What about the last one? What's question? "She" is the subject, as is the pronoun. The predicate here is a little more complicated, because it consists of several words. But what does action show? "Didn't finish" is a grammatical predicate in this sentence. Thus, this text has three independent sentences. This is too much for one line.

   2. Correct the inconsistency with more than two independent proposals. To correct this inconsistency, use the same methods from the previous section in at least one of the independent proposals. For example:

      • “The dog liked the ice cream. She licked the bowl, but she didn't finish it."
      • Of course, you have other options for correcting this inconsistency, such as “The dog liked the ice cream and licked the bowl. However, she didn't finish it." Or “The dog liked the ice cream. She licked the bowl; however, she did not finish it." Basically, you don't use a conjunction to start a sentence (although this rule has been loosened), so you need to change "but" to "nevertheless" when it's at the beginning of a sentence.

   3. Add separators to inconsistent sentences without punctuation. Another kind of inconsistent sentences are two sentences that are put together without punctuation marks. For example:

      • "The dog liked the ice cream and licked the bowl." You can use the same methods described in the previous section to separate them: "The dog liked the ice cream, so he licked the bowl."
   • The main thing to remember is that basically a sentence can only have two independent sentences, and they must have proper punctuation marks. Never combine two independent clauses with just a comma; always use a dot, semicolon, or comma with a union.
   • Connecting commas are when two complete sentences are separated by only a comma, not a dot or semicolon.
   • Find complex connecting commas. The connecting comma can be a little confusing, like "The dog wanted to eat chocolate, however, chocolate is not good for him." You have two full sentences here, and "nevertheless" does not count as a conjunction to separate the two sentences.

Any sentence of the Russian language can be divided into components, which in science are called "sentence members". Among them are the main and secondary. Most of the sentences cannot exist without the main ones, they form its basis, and the secondary ones make the text more informative and rich. What are the main and secondary members. suggestions?

Main

The subject and predicate in a sentence are its main members.

• The subject means the thing that does the action. Questions that will help to find it when parsing are "who?" (if the action is performed by an animate object) or "what?" (if the sentence refers to a phenomenon or an inanimate object).
• The predicate is most often expressed by the verb and means the action that the subject performs. Questions to determine - "what does it do, what will it do?"

Here's an example: Good mood helped the boys overcome difficulties. In our example, the word “mood” answers the question “what”, it is the subject that is underlined by one line during analysis. To find the predicate, we ask the question: "What did the mood do?" It helped. This word is the predicate, expressed by the verb, underlined by two lines. As a result, the sentence with the main members found looks like this: Good (what?) mood (underlined with a solid line) (what did you do?) helped (underlined with two solid horizontal stripes) the boys overcome difficulties.

How to recognize the subject and predicate when parsing

In order not to make a mistake, figuring out where the subject is, but you should use the hint table.

First of all, you should find the character by asking the question: “Who? What? ”, This will be the subject. Next, look for the predicate.

Minor

In order to parse the proposal by members, one should be able to find circumstances, definitions and additions. It is they who are the secondary members, the purpose of which is to concretize and clarify the main (or other secondary). How to find them?

• Definition. Questions that will help to detect it in the sentence - "what", "whose".
• Addition. Most often, cases are given to him: "to whom (what)", "with whom (with what)", "about whom (about what)" and others. That is, questions of all cases, in addition to the nominative.
• Circumstance. It can be found by asking questions of adverbs or participles: "from where", "where", "why", "how", "where" and the like.

Let's take an example. Let's find the main and secondary terms. suggestions:

The little boy hurried along the path.

There is to parse the sentence by members, it will turn out like this:

(which, definition) A small (who, subject) boy (as, circumstance) hurriedly (what he did, predicate) walked (along what, addition) along the path.

Each major and minor member sentence answers its own question, carries a certain load and performs its own role in the sentence.

How to recognize

In order to avoid mistakes when identifying additions, definitions and circumstances, you can use such a summary table-hint.

Minor members

Parameter	definition	Addition	Circumstance
Meaning	Characterizes the attribute of an object	Means subject	It matters place, time, mode of action
Questions	Which? What, what, what?	Indirect cases: to whom (what), by whom (what) and others	Where, where, from where, why, when, how - all questions of adverbs
What is expressed	Adjective Participle Cardinal number The case matches the case of the main word	Noun (both with and without a preposition) Pronoun The case can be any, except for the nominative	Noun
As emphasized	Wavy line	Dotted line	dot dash
Example	(What?) A beautiful vase stood in (whose?) mother's room.	The kid was carrying (what?) a basket (with what?) of mushrooms.	(where?) In the forest (when) it was damp in autumn.

To identify which member of the sentence is in front of us, we must first ask a question.

Additional hints

To find the main members of the proposal, you must follow the rules. The subject and the predicate are not a phrase, this is already a sentence, albeit a very short one. The main members are independent of each other.

Syntactic analysis should begin with the discovery of the subject, then it turns out what the predicate is, how it is expressed. Then the subject group should be identified with the help of questions, only after that - the predicate group. Each minor term is dependent:

• from one of the main ones;
• from one of the secondary

In one sentence there can be several main and secondary members. suggestions. If there are several bases, then the sentence is complex - compound or complex. If there are several definitions, additions, circumstances, but the basis is one, then the proposal is simple and widespread.

Often you can find appeals, for example: Katya, go do your homework. Despite the fact that the appeal "Katya" resembles the subject, it is not a member of the sentence and is designated as an appeal.

Difficult cases

Not all major and minor members of the sentence look obvious. Difficult but interesting cases are varied:

• A one-part sentence has only one main member. it was getting dark(this is a predicate, the sentence is impersonal). Today we were told(predicate, indefinitely personal sentence), that the exam has been cancelled.
• The predicate may include an adjective: The weather was rainy. In this example, the combination "was rainy" is a compound nominal predicate.
• The predicate may include several verbs: Today Vasya started to study.“Began to study” is a compound verb predicate.

Major and minor members sentences must be distinguished correctly when parsing a sentence.

1. What members of the proposal are separate? 2. How are isolated members of a sentence distinguished in speech and writing? 3. Separation conditions

participial turnovers. 4. Give examples of single isolated definitions. Tell us about the conditions for their separation. 5. Give examples of common agreed and non-agreed definitions. Tell us about the conditions for their separation. 6. When are applications separated? Give examples. In what cases are applications written with a hyphen? 7. Conditions for separating the application with the union AS. 8. Is it possible to highlight applications with a dash? Give examples. 9. What circumstances are highlighted in the letter with commas? 10. How to distinguish gerunds from adverbs formed from them? 11. What prepositions affect the isolation of circumstances? 12. What members of the proposal are called clarifying? What are the qualifying members of a sentence used for? 13. What words are often used with isolated clarifying members of a sentence? 14. Give examples of clarifying additions. 15. What styles of speech are characterized by separate participial and participle turns?

1. What is isolation? What members of a sentence are called isolated? 2. What are the conditions for the separation of secondary members of the proposal?

3. What are the punctuation rules for separating definitions and applications?

4. What are the rules for punctuation when separating circumstances?
5. What members of the proposal are called clarifying?

6. With what intonation are the isolated members of the sentence pronounced?

1) What members of the sentence are called isolated? 2) In what cases are definitions separated? 3) When are applications separated? 4) What are the conditions

contribute to the isolation of circumstances? 5) In what styles of speech are participles and participles used? 6) What are the clarifying members of the sentence for?

Help!!! 1) What members of the sentence are called isolated? 2) what are the conditions for separating the secondary members of the proposal?

3) What are the punctuation rules for separating definitions and applications?

4) what are the rules of punctuation when separating circumstances?

5) what members of the sentence are called clarifying?

6) with what intonation are the isolated parts of the sentence pronounced?

1. Among sentences 1 - 4, find a sentence with two separate circumstances. Write the number of this offer.

(1) The distant mountains, shrouded in a bluish mist, hovered and seemed to melt in languor. (2) A light wind stirred the dense grasses, full of multi-colored irises, porridge, and some other countless yellow and white heads. (3) Our horses had to turn their heads to grab, without even bending down, a bunch of juicy grass from the mezhnik, and they ran on, waving luxurious bouquets clamped in their lips. (4) In some places, small lakes suddenly opened up, like shreds of blue sky that fell to the ground and were set in emerald green ... (Korolenko V.)
2. Among sentences 1-3, find an offer with special circumstances. Write the number of this offer.
(1) The sun had already touched the water, and the radiant strip that he laid on the sea began to turn pink. (2) The huge globe, overflowing with grief and hatred, turned, and with it the Black Sea rolled back from the rays of the sun. (3) A small, tiny boat, insistently humming its engines, climbed the bulge of the Earth, stubbornly catching up with the sun, falling over the horizon. (Sobolev L.)
3. Among sentences 1-4, find a sentence with a separate circumstance, expressed as a participial phrase. Write the number of this offer.
(1) In the clearing, near a high ant heap, stood the Nanai boy Filka and beckoned her to him with his hand. (2) She came up looking at him friendly. (3) Near Filka, on a wide stump, she saw a pot full of lingonberries. (4) And Filka himself, with a narrow hunting knife made of Yakut steel, was peeling a fresh birch rod from the bark. (Fraerman R.)