The Concept of Style
when he or she sees a beautiful night. It usually starts with what or how to explain what in people’s mind.
Last, imperative sentence is opposed to non-imperative ones because it is often directed to the second person and no modal verb is used. An imperative
sentence drops the subject. For instance, in the sentence Open the door, please, the speaker gives a command or order to his addressee. It has no subject and ends
with an exclamation mark because the target is certain. b
Sentence Complexity Morley. D. 2000: 69 declares that there are three main structures of
sentence: simple, compound, and complex sentences. First, a simple sentence has one independent clause, so it only contains a subject and a verb. Second, a
compound sentence consists of two or more independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so, semicolon, or a
semicolon followed by a conjunctive adverb transition. The last one, complex sentence contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
dependent clauses usually begin with a subordinate conjunction such as after, although, as, because, before, if, since, though, until, when, whenever, where,
wherever, while. There are the examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences below.
Table 1. Types of Sentence
No. Types of Sentence Examples
1. Simple Sentence
The President flew to Camp David.
subject predicate
one subject, one predicate 2.
Compound Sentence
The new art show opened today, and the crowd was
independent clause independent clause
immense. The new art show opened today; the crowd was immense.
independent clause independent clause
3. Complex Sentence
When the new art show opened at the museum, the crowd
dependent clause independent
was immense.
clause
c Noun Phrases
A stylistic analysis of noun phrase looks for whether the noun phrase used is simple or complex and where the complexity lies in pre-modification by
adjectives, nouns, etc. or in post-modification by prepositional phrases and relative clauses. According to David Morley 2000: 53, noun phrases are
typically modified pre-headword modification or premodifiation or determined by an article, a genitive phrase, a pronoun, an adjective adjectival phrase or
another noun nominal phrase. Then, noun phrases are also followed and qualified by a prepositional phrase or subordinate clause, or in certain cases an
adjective or nominal phrase, for examples: a call paper a is determiner, call is noun, and paper is head, the color of the sea the is determiner, color is noun,
and of the sea is prepositional phrase, and mething important mething is head, important is adjective.