About Sentences
A group of words that expresses a complete thought.
What is a sentence?
Declarative, Exclamatory, Interrogative, and Imperative
What are the four types of sentences.
This names a person, place, thing, activity or idea.
What is a noun?
This replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
What is a pronoun?
This type of verb takes an object.
What is a transitive verb?
The naming part of the sentence.
What is the subject?
What is declarative?
This asserts and action, shows a state of being, links two words together or helps another word.
What is a verb?
This helps another verb, assert action being or existence?
What is a helping verb?
Which verb doesn't take an object?
The part of a sentence that contains the verb and everything else.
Predicate
Makes a command. Has implied you. (.,!)
What is an imperative sentence?
This modifies a verb, adjective or another verb and answers the questions, how, when, where, why, how often, how much, to what extent, and under what conditions.
What is an adverb?
This make and assertion by joining two words.
What is a linking verb?
This is the question you ask to find the subject.
Who or what is the sentence about?
This can do the work of a noun and play the role of a subject, direct object, object of the preposition, and appositive.
What is a noun clause?
Asks a question (?)
What is an interrogative sentence?
This describes a noun or a pronoun, by qualifying, or limiting, and answers the questions, what kind, which one, and how many?
What is an adjective?
This is a word used to connect words phrases and clauses together.
What is a conjunction?
What question do we ask the verb to find the direct object?
Whom or what?
5 rules for a complete sentence
A sentence is complete when:
Has subject
Has a verb
Make complete sense
Has a Capital Letter
Has an endmark
Expresses excitement or shows emotion. (!)
What is an exclamatory sentence?
This relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.
What is a preposition?
This is a word used to express strong emotion.
What is an interjection?
What question do we ask the verb to find the indirect object?
To whom or for whom, to what or for what?