Identifying Sentences
Did you hear the thunder last night
What is interrogative?
What an incredible singing voice that woman has
What is exclamatory?
Please put this glass of water on the speaker's podium
What is a period?
Everyone in Mrs. Rego's class studied U.S. immigration.
Complete Subject: Everyone in Mrs. Rego's class
Simple Subject: Everyone
Most of the Chinese immigrants were men.
Complete predicate: were men
Verb: were
Please close the window before the rain begins
What is imperative?
Wow, I can't believe you didn't know better
What is an exclamation point?
Do you know how long it takes to walk three blocks
What is a question mark?
My ancestors immigrated to the United States from China many years ago.
Complete Subject: My ancestors
Simple Subject: ancestors
Many immigrants sent money back to their families in China.
Complete predicate: sent money back to their families in China.
verb: sent
Can you save me a seat at the show
What is interrogative?
Identify the complete subject and the simple subject
These people left a war-torn country to look for work.
Complete subject: These people
Simple subject: people
Lucia and I are planning to make a quilt
What is a period.
My uncle lent me a book about Chinese immagrants.
Complete subject: My uncle
Simple subject: uncle
My grandfather and grandmother paid their way to the United States with money from their fathers.
Complete Predicate: paid their way to the United States with money from their fathers
Verb: paid
When the sun goes down and the air becomes cooler
What is a sentence fragment?
Identify the complete predicate and verb
A large part of this immigrant work force stayed in the United States in spite of many problems
Complete predicate: stayed in the United States in spite of many problems
Verb: stayed
Read that poem by Nikki Giovanni
What is a period?
Some of the first Chinese people arrived in the United States in 1820.
Complete subject: Some of the first Chinese people
Simple subject: some
The lumber industry, gold mines, fisheries, canneries, and farms employed Chinese workers.
Complete Predicate: employed Chinese workers
Verb: employed
Songan's apartment is near the park
What is declarative?
Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following sentence:
The baseball team had never won a championship in the history of our school
What is had won?
Whenever I see a sad movie and start to cry
What is a sentence fragment?
The discovery of gold in California attracted many immigrants from China in 1848.
Complete subject: The discovery of gold in China
Simple subject: discovery
The transcontinental railroad employed about fifteen thousand Chinese workers.
Complete Predicate: employed about fifteen thousand Chinese workers
Verb: employed