Prepared by:

Joey F. Valdriz

Kernelizing Sentences

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?

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.