SENTENCE

STRUCTURE

SENTENCE

What is a sentence?
A group of words that tells a complete thought
Containing a subject and predicate
It begins with a capital letter and ends with punctuation mark

What is a subject?
A person, place or location
It is the who or what that is doing or being something
Helpful hint:
Ask the question, Who or what is verbs or verbed

Person

Place

Thing

What is a predicate?
Contains the verb
Sates something about the subject

Example:

Joe
Subjec
t

swims at his every summer

day.
Predicat
e

.?

How about punctuation?

Marks that should be in every good sentence

Period, question mark, exclamation point

Period

Question
Mark

Exclamation
Mark

FRAGMENT

What is a fragment?
An incomplete sentence that is either:
Small
Broken
Separated
Unfinished thought

Do not use fragmented sentences

Uses fragmented sentences makes you sound like a cave man

I am Dave. The caveman.

Examples
Because his car was in the shop
what did he do?
After the rains stops
then what?
When you finally take the test
what will happen?

RUN-ON SENTENCE

What is a run-on sentence?

A sentence containing two or more complete sentences
A no for sentence making
Can easily be fixed with a period

Simple Fix
My teacher read my paper she said it was great.
How do we fix this?

My Teacher read my paper.

She said it was great.