Kernelizing Sentences
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The document discusses kernelizing sentences by removing unnecessary modifiers and details to retain only the essential information. It provides examples of full sentences and their kernelized versions containing only the main ideas. It also asks the reader to kernelize sample sentences, such as reducing "The Maunlad Award recognizes micro-entrepreneurs who have grown their business to levels that provide general employment for people apart from family members" to its basic elements.
Kernelizing Sentences
- 1. Prepared by: Joey F. Valdriz Kernelizing Sentences
- 2. Sentence: As the Philippines becomes an increasingly desirable country for business and production, the government is doing its share of implementing reforms to further deregulate, liberalize, and privatize its markets. What is the main idea? What are the embedded or subordinate ideas?
- 3. • A long sentence may be reduced to its kernel form by deleting expansions or embedded modifiers (adjectival or adverbial clauses or phrases) and retaining only the essentials. • A kernel sentence is a basic sentence. As the Philippines becomes an increasingly desirable country for business and production, the government is doing its share of implementing reforms to further deregulate, liberalize, and privatize its markets.
- 4. 1. Globalization which entails stiff competition poses a great challenge to the social industries. 2. China’s largest shipping group is considering building a cargo hub in the Philippines as it expands operation in the region. 3. About 70,000 coconuts or about 700 hectares of coconut plantations have already been infested with the coconut hispid beetle which threatens to wipe out the country’s coconut industries in three year’s time.
- 5. 4. Insufficiently dried corn and newly harvested palay have a higher desirable moisture content which makes the grains rot easily, so they have to be sold to traders at very low gate prices. 5. The accelerating rate of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere is largely due to rising energy consumption in tandem with increasing population and per capita gross domestic product.
- 6. The tall, dark-haired man from next door fearlessly investigated the screeching noise. Winged insects with several nymph stages belong to the infraclass known as Paleoptera. The accelerating rate of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere is largely due to rising energy consumption in tandem with increasing population and per capita gross domestic product.
- 7. Kernelize the following sentence. The Maunlad Award recognizes micro-entrepreneurs who have grown their business to levels that provide general employment for people apart from family members.
- 8. 1. Since ancient times, differences have separated men into warring groups. 2. One other key to creating jobs that will gainfully employ a substantial portion of the unemployed is to boost the growth of job-rich agricultural sector 3. As may be expected, salary scales are inevitable distorted as companies try to match or provide even better compensation packages to attract qualified professionals 4. An insatiable passion for learning provides an ever-expanding competency base that is necessary for ensuring that one is employable at whatever stage in life.