Sentence Types
A piece of a sentence that is not complete
Fragment Sentence
What the story is mostly about (One or two words).
The Topic of a story.
Short for They are
They're
Short for you are
You're
Something achieved through hard work, courage, or skill.
Achievement/Achievements
A sentence that has one independent clause with one subject and one verb, expressing a single, complete thought.
Simple Sentence
A person or people in a story, book, movie, or play.
The Characters of a story.
Shows that something belongs to you
Your
Short for We are
We're
The power to cause change in something or to make people act or change in some way.
Influence
A sentence that has a conjunction or a comma joining two or more independent clauses.
Compound Sentence
When you repeat the exact words that someone else said or wrote.
A Quote.
Used when talking about a place or pointing something out.
There
Refers to a place or location, usually in a question.
Where
A person who fights to make some kind of change in the world or in the place where they work or live.
Activist
A sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause usually in opposite order.
Complex Sentence
The big lesson or message the author wants you to learn while you are reading.
The Theme of a story.
Past tense for are
Were
When something belongs to a person.
Their
A person who is a leader in government or a person who is trying to be elected to a position in government.
Politician
When two or more separate sentences are joined together incorrectly, without the right conjunctions or punctuation.
A Run-on Sentence
A Conversation between two or more people.
Dialogue
Bonus: Something that person leaves behind when they die.
Legacy
Bonus: The true story of a person's life that is told in a book, a movie, or a TV show.
Biography
Something that one believes, thinks, or does that comes from one's family or ethnic background; tradition.
Heritage