Identify the Complete Subject and the Complete Predicate
What are the two essential parts of every sentence?
The subject and the predicate.
A sentence is in "natural" order when what follows what?
When the verb follows the subject.
What are the four types of sentences and what punctuation do they receive?
Declarative (.), Interrogative (?), Imperative (.), and Exclamatory(!)
What is the difference between a simple sentence and a compound sentence?
The independent clauses of a compound sentence are usually connected by a _____ and a _____ _____.
But you may also use a _____.
The independent clauses of a compound sentence are usually connected by a COMMA and a COORDINATING CONJUNCTION.
But you may also use a SEMICOLON.
Most of the famous pirates were men.
Subject: Most of the famous pirates
Predicate: were men
Many historic paddleboats still travel on the Mississippi River.
Natural
Why do we turn our clocks back an hour in the Fall
? Interrogative
The Royal Gorge is an amazing site.
SIMPLE
Royal Gorge/ is
Bruce looked under the deck and he saw a cat with kittens.
Bruce looked under the deck, and he saw a cat with kittens.
Some women tried their hands at piracy.
Subject: Some women
Predicate: tried their hands at piracy.
How does the boat work?
inverted
Daylight savings time begins in March
. Declarative
A trickle of water had slowly carved a canyon out of the granite bedrock.
SIMPLE:
SS: trickle, SP: had carved
The family of cats looked healthy but they might have been sick.
The family of cats looked healthy, but they might have been sick.
Mary Read sailed a merchant ship after her husband's death.
Subject: Mary Read
Predicate: sailed a merchant ship after her husband's death.
The river's source is Lake Itasca in Minnesota.
How late it is
! Exclamatory
That stream eventually became the Arkansas River.
SIMPLE
SS: stream, SP: became
We took the cats to the shelter and they will be taken care of.
We took the cats to the shelter, and they will be taken care of.
The merchant sailor turned pirate after losing her ship to English buccaneers.
Subject: The merchant sailor
Predicate: turned pirate after losing her ship to English buccaneers.
Where the Mississippi River ends is the Gulf of Mexico.
Inverted
Please tell me what time it is
. Imperative
We wanted to cross the gorge, but the tram was out of service.
COMPOUND:
SS: We, SP: wanted
SS: tram, SP: was
Someone will adopt the animals they will be given good homes.
Someone will adopt the animals; they will be given good homes.