The Sentence

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The Sentence

• and its parts

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What is a sentence?
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Kinds of sentences

• Declarative sentence
• Interrogative sentence
• Imperative sentence
• Exclamatory sentence

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FUN ASSIGNMENT

• Sentence Caricatures!!! You will have the day in
  class tomorrow to draw a caricature of one of the
  four types of sentences. Be thinking about what
  type of character will best represent the
  sentence type you choose. Bring colored
  pencilsIll provide the paper. You can sketch
  out your idea ahead of time if you wish.
• Directions link

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What must every sentence have?What is a
sentence fragment?How do you fix it?
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Subjects and predicates

• Complete subject
• Complete predicate

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Subjects and predicates (cont.)

• Simple subject
• Simple predicate

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Subjects and Predicates (cont.)

• Compound subjects
• Compound predicates -

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Coordinating conjunction

• Define
• List
• Examples

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Correlative conjunctions

• Define
• List
• Examples

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How do you identify (find) the subject?

• In most sentences, the subject goes
• Some sentences are inverted (like questions) and
  the subject is found
• You may have to rearrange the words of a sentence
  like this to find the subject

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What if the sentence starts with here or
there?

• The words here and there are not subjects because
  they are not nouns. What part of speech are they?
  ______________ So what should you do to find the
  subject?
• There is the path to the garden.

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Where is the subject in an imperative sentence?

• Look for your books in your locker.

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Forms of sentences

• Simple
• I am the teacher.
• Bob and Jane are friends.
• The person in the car waved and smiled at me.

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• Compound
• I am the teacher, but I am also a mom.
• Bob and Jane are friends, and they like to go to
  the park together.
• The person in the car waved and smiled at me, and
  I waved back.

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Interjections

• Define
• Examples
• Purpose in the sentence?

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Run-on sentences

• What is a run-on sentence?
• How do you fix it?
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.

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QUESTIONS?