Sentence Basics
All sentences start with a _______ _______.
What is a capital letter?
Bill dressed as Spongebob for Halloween.
What is Bill?
I saw a hawk out the window.
What is saw?
The new coach comes from one of the southern states.
What are new and southern?
Cora rides horses.
What is a sentence?
This term describes what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
Sammy and Judd like to ride their snowmobiles.
What is Sammy and Judd?
They went to a play on Saturday afternoon.
What is went (to a play)?
Bob wants see a horror movie, but Larry is too scared of them.
What are horror and scared?
Browndog ice cream.
What is fragment?
This term describes what the subject is doing in the sentence.
What is a verb (or a predicate)?
Math problems are particularly difficult for Josie.
What is Math problems?
Having been gone for five days, the family returned from their trip to Japan.
What is returned?
The nasty, old oatmeal had been sitting out for hours, so now it was dry and way too sticky.
What are nasty, old, dry, and (way too) sticky?
Went to the Mrs. Ridgeway's house
What is fragment?
Three types of punctuation marks that can come at the end of a sentence.
What are periods, question marks, and exclamation points?
Having slept in late, Jason and his sister missed first hour.
What is Jason and his sister?
The movie featured way too much dancing for my taste.
What is featured (way too much dancing)?
They ended their Alaskan adventure early since they had both come down with a terrible sickness.
What are Alaskan and terrible?
I went to the store to buy eggs then I went home to cook the eggs then I ate the eggs then I had to do the dishes.
What is run-on sentence?
Type of punctuation needed if a sentence is being spoken out loud by a character.
What are quotation marks?
Miles was helping his dad in the garage.
What is was helping?
After passing the bright, blue road sign advertising the new, fast-food restaurant, they decided to stop for some late-night, delicious tacos.
What are bright, blue, new, fast-food, late-night, and delicious?
Her parents, after shopping for hours, brought home five bags of presents even though she said she only wanted gift cards.
What is a sentence?