The period can be characterized by the presence of one or more prayers, so it can be simple or compound.
Single Period - presents only one prayer, which is called absolute prayer.
Examples:
- Already we wake up.
- Today it is so hot!
- Necessary of this.
Compound Period - features two or more prayers.
Examples:
- we talk when I come back.
- É your obligation explain what It happened.
- Rested, walked and did what else wanted on vacation.
The number of sentences depends on the number of verbs present in an utterance.
Compound Period Classification
Depending on their training, the compound period is classified into:
Period Composed by Coordination - when the sentences are independent of each other, that is, each one of them has a complete meaning.
Examples:
got up and it started working.
robbed the store and ran through the back door.
Subordination Period - when the prayers are related to each other.
Examples:
I hope to finish the decorations until the guests start arriving.
I did the recipe even without to know which ingredients took.
Mixed Period - when coordinated and subordinate prayers are present.
Examples:
I lifted, although still were sleepy.
While he speak, we will to listen.
Coordinated Prayers
At coordinated prayers they can be syndectic or asyndetic, respectively, depending on whether conjunctions are used or not.
Examples:
Now speech, well not speech. (coordinated syndectic prayer, marked by the use of the conjunction “or… now”).
The classes started, the duties started and the laziness it gave place to determination. (asyndetic coordinated prayers: “Classes began, duties began”, syndectic coordinated prayer: “and laziness gave way to determination.”)
Syndetic coordinated prayers can be:
- Additives: when sentences express sum. Example: Like the beach, but also likes the field.
- Adversatives: when prayers express adversity. Example: I would like the course, Yet there was no vacancy in his city.
- Alternatives: when prayers express alternative. Example: he goes or I go.
- conclusive: when prayers express completion. Example: Are in agreement, then let's go.
- Explanatory: when prayers express explanation. Example: We did the work today why we had time.
Subordinated prayers
At subordinate clauses they can be nouns, adjectives or adverbials, depending on their function.
Examples:
- nouns: when sentences have a noun function. Example: I hope you make it.
- Adjectives: when sentences have the function of an adjective. Example: Competitors who sleep more perform better.
- Adverbials: when the sentences have an adverb function. Example: As they grow, worries increase.
Read too Compound Period and Phrase, Prayer and Period.
Exercises
1. (UNIRIO) In the period “Ah, the dove suddenly cooed, when it distinguished, indignantly, the arriving pigeon (...)”, the two subordinate clauses are respectively:
a) adjective and temporal adverbial
b) predicative noun and adjective
c) temporal adverbial and temporal adverbial
d) temporal adverbial and consecutive adverbial
e) temporal adverbial and adjective
Alternative e: temporal adverbial and adjective.
2. (FGV) Read carefully: "The watchful night watchman and his brave assistant never wavered in the line of duty." In the period above, the comma is misplaced, as it separates:
a) the subject and the direct object
b) the subject and the predicate
c) the main clause and the subordinate clause
d) the subject and his adnominal adjunct
e) the predicate and the direct object
Alternative b: the subject and the predicate
3. (FUVEST) During the period: “The serenity of the afternoon was such that you could hear the bell of a distant parish, tolling the deceased.”, the second sentence is:
a) causal adverbial subordinate
b) consecutive adverbial subordinate
c) adverbial concessional subordinate
d) comparative adverbial subordinate
e) subjective adverbial subordinate
Alternative b: consecutive adverbial subordinate