Effective Sentences
Identify Sentence Fragment or Run On or Complete Sentence:
I was feeling really stressed, so I decided to get organized.
Complete
What kind of sentence beginning?
However, for 11 years, just such a museum flourished in Washington, D.C.
Transition word
Identify subjects and predicates
Ellington’s first song was called “Soda Fountain Rag.”
Ellington’s first song was called “Soda Fountain Rag.”
Which type of noun: collective, abstract, indefinite, demonstrative, or personal
Let the teachers take a break.
Collective
Identify a simple subject, complete subject, simple predicate, or complete predicate
The island is volcanic and has no river.
SP
Identify Sentence Fragment or Run On or Complete Sentence:
No fun spending fifteen minutes every morning searching for my homework.
Sentence Fragment
Sentence Parts (independent or dependent; coordinating conjunction or a phrase)
In 1982, the penny changed.
Phrase
Choose the compound subject or compound predicate
In the 1930’s, Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester player the monster and the monster’s wife in a movie.
Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester compound subject
Which type of noun: collective, abstract, indefinite, demonstrative, or personal
Everyone gave to the charity.
Indefinite
Identify a simple subject, complete subject, simple predicate, or complete predicate
Settlers from Polynesia cleared trees to make fields for crops.
CS
Identify Sentence Fragment or Run On or Complete Sentence:
Now I put my homework next to my bed, I can find it right away, it’s a much better system.
Run on
Sentence Parts (independent or dependent; coordinating conjunction or a phrase)
Pennies used to be about 97 percent copper and 3 percent zinc.
Independent
Choose the compound subject or compound predicate
Shelly had a dream about an odd doctor named Frankenstein and wrote a story about it.
Had And wrote. Compound verb
Which type of noun: collective, abstract, indefinite, demonstrative, or personal
This was a great time.
Demonstrative
Identify a simple subject, complete subject, simple predicate, or complete predicate
Without new wood, islanders could no longer make canoes to fish for food.
CP
Identify Sentence Fragment or Run On or Complete Sentence:
Can’t believe I didn’t think of it before.
Sentence Fragment
Sentence Parts (independent or dependent; coordinating conjunction or a phrase)
Today, the only copper in a penny is a thin coating that protects the zinc.
Subordinate clause
Identify direct or indirect objects
Students could update the programs at any time.
Direct object prorams
Which type of noun: collective, abstract, indefinite, demonstrative, or personal
They had a great day.
Personal
Type of pronoun
yourself
Reflexive
Identify Sentence Fragment or Run On or Complete Sentence:
On Sunday, I make my lunches for the week.
Complete Sentence
Sentence Parts (independent or dependent; coordinating conjunction or a phrase)
teal prices fluctuated with the economy, so pennies often cost more to make than they are worth.
Coordinating Conjunction
Identify direct or indirect objects
One teacher gave students their first test.
Students indirect
taste direct object
Which type of noun: collective, abstract, indefinite, demonstrative, or personal
A decision was coming.
Abstract noun
Whose
Interrogative