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Types of Sentences
Know your Subjects... and Predicates
Simple Sentences vs. Compound Sentences
Stomp Out Run-ons & Fragments
Subjects in Strange Places
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Name the FOUR types of sentences
What is declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, & imperative?
100
Identify the COMPLETE SUBJECT & COMPLETE PREDICATE in the following sentence: The new teacher brought her children to school.
What is CS- The new teacher CP- brought her children to school
100
Is the following a simple sentence or a compound sentence? The boys from their school stole our uniforms and spray-painted the locker rooms.
What is a SIMPLE SENTENCE
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Define a Sentence Fragment
What is a part of a sentence that is either missing a subject, a predicate (verb), or doesn't express a complete thought
100
When faced with an interrogative sentence, how do we find the subject?
What is: Change the question into a declarative sentence. Then karate chop to find the subject.
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What type of sentence is this: Don't forget your homework
What is IMPERATIVE
200
Another word for simple predicate is:
What is VERB
200
What is the difference between a Simple Sentence and a Compound Sentence?
What is: Simple = one sentence (1 sub, 1 pred, 1 complete thought) Compound = 2 sentences in one separated by a comma and conjunction
200
Define a run-on sentence
What is: Too many sentences jammed together into one sentence
200
Find the subject: Keep reading to find out if Danny and William's plan was a success.
What is (You). It's just understood that I am talking to you.
300
Define a Declarative sentence
What is a sentence that makes a general statement
300
Identify the simple subject(s) in the following sentence: Elk and moose run freely through the forest.
What is ELK & MOOSE
300
Simple or Compound? How do you know? Felicity and George dated for years, and now they are getting married.
What is Compound (2 sentences in one; separated by a comma and a conjunction)
300
Fix the following run-on: Oliver rang my doorbell, then he ran away.
What is: Oliver rang my doorbell, and then he ran away. Oliver rang my doorbell. Then he ran away. Oliver rang my doorbell; then he ran away.
300
Find the subject: Didn't your sister bring your work home?
What is: SISTER (Your sister didn't bring your work home.)
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What type of sentence is this: How incredible that place is
What is EXCLAMATORY
400
Identify the simple predicate in the following sentence: Gayle's older sister decided to drive her to dance class early.
What is DECIDED
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Write a simple sentence about the New England Patriots. You must include a COMPOUND PREDICATE.
What is (on whiteboard)
400
Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on? How do you know? Because you ran through the hall.
What is: It is a fragment. It does not express a complete thought. We don't know what happened because the person ran through the halls.
400
Find the subject: There, in the box, are the Student-led Conference folders.
What is: FOLDERS (The Student-led Conference folders are there in the box.)
500
Identify the type of sentence below: Remember your keys, or you will be locked out of the house
What is a compound sentence in which the first sentence is IMPERATIVE and the second sentence is DECLARATIVE.
500
Define the following terms: complete subject complete predicate simple subject simple predicate compound subject compound predicate
What is (too much to write) :)
500
Write a Compound Interrogative sentence.
What is (on whiteboard)
500
Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on? How do you know? There is a test tomorrow so make sure you study.
What is: Run-on-- it is missing the comma!
500
Find the subject: Don't gloat about your grades, or no one will like you.
What is: Compound Sentence-- (You) & No one