Kinds of Sentences
What is a sentence?
A group of words that express a complete thought.
What is missing from this?
Come in small packages.
Missing a subject
Good things come in small packages.
Every sentence has a ________ and a ________.
a subject and a predicate
What does the word compound mean?
Correct this run-on.
The meaning of most proverbs is obvious some are puzzling.
The meaning of most proverbs is obvious, but some are puzzling.
Sentences that end in an exclamation mark.
Exclamatory Sentences
What is this?
A needle in a haystack.
A fragment
_____________ is made up of all the words that tell what the subject does or is.
Complete predicate
What is a compound predicate?
A sentence that has two or more simple predicates that share the same subject.
What is this?
Running the race isn't enough you have to start on time.
Run-on
When you give a command you use an __________ sentence.
Imperative Sentence
What is a fragment?
An incomplete sentence.
____________ is made up of all the words that tell whom or what the sentence is about.
Complete subject
What is a compound subject?
A sentence that has two or more simple subjects that share the same predicate.
What is a run-on sentence?
Two sentences that run together.
What is a declarative sentence? And what does it end with?
Sentence that makes a statement and ends in a period.
How do you correct a fragment?
Add the missing subject or predicate
True or False. There can only be 1 subject and 1 predicate in a sentence.
False
A ___________ is a word that joins words or groups of words.
Conjunction
What is a comma splice?
A run-on sentence with only a comma between the two sentences.
Which two types of sentences end with a period?
Declarative and Imperative
Correct
can move mountains
People who have goals and dreams can move mountains.
True or false. The simple predicate MUST have a descriptive word along with it.
Ex. Delicious strawberries grew from the bush.
Ex. only grew is the predicate.
What words are conjunctions?
There are 2 that we talked about.
and , or
Correct this run-on sentence in two ways.
Two sentences and compound
You can lead a horse to water you cannot make it drink.
You can lead a horse to water. You cannot make it drink.
You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.