Argumentative Texts, Theater, and Compound Sentences

Argumentative Texts: Media

  • The Publisher: This text is unsigned and exposes the media’s ideas about a topic.
  • The Chronicle: It’s a newspaper, television, or radio article in which the writer reports on an incident and reflects on it.
  • The Op-Ed: In the opinion article, a specialist or prestigious person expresses an opinion about a topical issue.
  • The Letter to the Editor: It is an opinion piece that discusses a topical issue, sent to an editor of a magazine or newspaper. The text should be signed and be clear, concise, and accurate.
  • Advertising: It is a message consisting of text and one or more non-verbal elements that try to convince and influence the recipient.

Theatrical Genres: Soundtracks

  • Comedy: A type of drama in which everyday life, its problems, and limitations are portrayed, using humor as a resource. It usually has a happy ending.
  • Tragedy: Originally, tragedies were attached to old myths and stories and had a background of struggle against fate. It has an unhappy ending.
  • Drama: Also called tragicomedy. This theatrical subgenre mixes tragic and comic elements to better reflect reality. It can have a happy or unhappy ending.

Oral Argument Texts

  • Oral Argument:
    • Adequacy: The speaker and spoken words to the audience.
    • The structure of logic and data consistency.
    • Use of the distinctive features of the dialogue to establish a rapprochement between the transmitter and receiver.
    • Tone of voice: With the shades, subjective elements are marked.
    • Non-verbal language: It must be a language with gestures, provided it is not necessary.
  • The Debate: An argument is a situation in which a moderator leads a dialogue between several people.
  • The Gathering: An argument is a situation in which there is no moderator and there is greater freedom to change the subject.
  • The Pitch: It is an argumentative essay in which a speaker talks about a specific topic to an audience.

Simple and Compound Sentences

  • The Simple Sentence: Statements which are formed by only one verbal form.
    • It is a grammatical unit with complete sense.
    • It is delimited by pauses.
    • It has independent syntax.
  • The Compound Sentence: It has two or more verbs.
    • It consists of several verbs and various predicates.
    • It consists of several prepositions.
    • It has a subject and predicate structure.
    • Prepositions are dependent on syntax.
    • It has links that serve as connectors.

Coordinated, Juxtaposed, and Subordinated Sentences

  • Coordinated: Coordinated sentences are complex sentences that are joined together by coordinating conjunctions. There is no dependency relationship between them; both convey a complete message.
  • Juxtaposed: Juxtaposed sentences are compound sentences whose propositions are linked by a punctuation mark.
  • Subordinated: Subordinated sentences are compound sentences in which there is a dependency relationship between the propositions. They are joined by subordinating conjunctions.

How to Analyze a Compound Sentence

  1. Find and highlight the personal verb form in the sentence.
  2. Point to the link that connects the preposition and indicate its kind.
  3. Separate the prepositions and indicate what type of sentence is formed.
  4. Finally, analyze the various proposals as simple sentences.