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Sentences
Subject
Predicate
Kinds of Sentences
100
a word or word group that contains a subject and a verb and that expresses a complete thought.
What is a sentence?
100
This tells whom or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
100
This tells something about the subject.
What is the predicate?
100
Makes a statement and ends with a period.
What is a declarative sentence?
200
a group of words that looks like a sentence but does not contain both a subject and a verb or does not express a complete thought.
What is a sentence fragment?
200
May come at the beginning, middle, or end.
What is the subject?
200
This may be found anywhere in a sentence.
What is the predicate?
200
Give a command or makes a request. This ends with a period. A strong command ends with an exclamation point.
What is an imperative sentence?
300
subjects and predicates.
What are the two basic parts of a sentence?
300
The main word or word group that tells whom or what the sentence is about.
What is the simple subject?
300
The main word or word group that tells something about the subject.
What is the simple predicate or verb?
300
asks a question and ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
400
Ask "who" or "what" is doing something or "whom" or "what" is being talked about.
What is finding the subject?
400
This consists of all the words that tell whom or what the sentence is about.
What is the complete subject?
400
simple predicates, or verbs, that consist of more than one word.
What is the verb phrase?
400
shows excitement or expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
500
Begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point.
What is a sentence?
500
This consists of two or more subjects that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same verb.
What is the compound subject?
500
This consists of two or more verbs that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same subject.
What is a compound verb?
500
The subject of a command or a request is always "you", even if you doesn't appear in the sentence.
What is the understood subject?