Sentence Basics
A group of words that expresses a complete thought and has a subject and predicate.
What is a sentence?
This type of sentence makes a statement.
What is a declarative sentence?
The simple subject in the sentence "The tall pine tree swayed in the wind."
What is tree?
A group of words that does not express a complete thought.
What is a sentence fragment?
The punctuation mark that ends most declarative sentences.
What is a period?
The part of a sentence that tells whom or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
This type of sentence asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
The complete subject in the sentence "The tall pine tree swayed in the wind."
What is "The tall pine tree"?
"After the game ended" is an example of this sentence error.
What is a sentence fragment?
The punctuation mark that ends interrogative sentences.
What is a question mark?
The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or is.
What is the predicate?
This type of sentence gives a command or request.
What is an imperative sentence?
The simple predicate in the sentence "The tall pine tree swayed in the wind."
What is swayed?
Two sentences joined incorrectly without proper punctuation or conjunctions.
What is a run-on sentence?
The punctuation mark that often ends exclamatory sentences.
What is an exclamation point?
Every complete sentence must contain a subject and this.
What is a verb?
This type of sentence expresses strong feeling.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
The complete predicate in the sentence "The tall pine tree swayed in the wind."
What is "swayed in the wind"?
A sentence with one subject and two or more predicates contains this.
What is a compound predicate?
This end mark belongs at the end of the sentence: "Where are my keys"
What is a question mark?
A complete thought, a subject, and a predicate are essential parts of this.
What is a sentence?
The implied subject of most imperative sentences.
What is "you"?
A sentence with two or more subjects sharing the same predicate has this type of subject.
What is a compound subject?
Correcting fragments and run-ons helps improve this quality of writing.
What is sentence fluency (or clarity)?
This end mark belongs at the end of the sentence: "Watch out"
What is an exclamation point?