10 ACCIDENT ANALYSIS IN CONSTRUCTION


Skills bank Identifying the parts of a long sentence


Long sentences contain many separate parts. You must be able to recognize these parts to understand the sentence as a whole. Mark up a long sentence as follows: ●


Locate the subjects, verbs and objects/complements by underlining the relevant nouns, adjectives and verbs.


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Put a dividing line: ■


at the end of a phrase which begins a sentence ■ before a phrase at the end of the sentence ■ between clauses


● Put brackets round extra pieces of information. Example:


The most important lesson to be learnt from this accident is that responsibility for checking and approving all modifications made to structural design during the construction process must be made absolutely clear.


The most important lesson to be learnt | from this accident | is that responsibility for checking and approving all modifications made to structural design | during the construction process | must be made absolutely clear.


Constructing a long sentence


Begin with a very simple SV(O)(C)(A) sentence and then add extra information. Example:


‘Design and build’


Despite potential safety problems


‘design and build’


has many advantages. has many advantages Writing a bibliography/reference list


The APA (American Psychological Association) system is probably the most common in the social sciences. Information should be given as shown in the following source references for a book, an Internet article and a journal article. The final list should be in alphabetical order according to the family name of the writer. See the reference list on page 83 for a model.


Author Date Title of book


Lock, D. (2004). Project management in construction.


Writer or organization


Date (or ‘n.d.’) Nakienly, E. (2007). Author


Chinowsky, P., Molenaar, K. & Realph, A.


Title of Internet article


A beginner’s guide to referencing.


Date Title of article


(2004). Learning organisations in construction.


Place of publication Publisher Aldershot:


Date of retrieval Full URL


Retrieved April 20, 2009, from


Journal of Management in Engineering,


http:// www.citeprecise.com/


Title of journal Volume and page numbers 23, pp.27–34.


Gower Publishing Ltd.


from the client’s perspective,


including speed and saving money.


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