The Parts of a Sentence

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The Parts of a Sentence

• Subjects, Predicates, and Complements

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Sentence

• Definition A sentence is a word group that
  contains a subject and a verb and expresses a
  complete thought.
• Examples
• A geek bites the heads off chickens.
• Another type of geek teaches English.

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Sentence Fragment

• Definition A word or word group that does not
  contain a subject or a verb or does not express a
  compete thought.
• Examples
• Tonights homework.
• After you finish the homework.

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Subject and Predicate

• Subject Tells whom or what the sentence is
  about.
• Predicate tells something about the subject.
• The subject may appear before or after the
  predicate.
• Verb is part of the predicate.

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Subject

• Simple subject the main word or word group that
  tells whom or what the sentence is about.
• The principal of our school fired the uncompetent
  English teacher.
• Complete subject consists of simple subject
  any words or word groups that modify the subject.
• The principal of our school fired the uncompetent
  English teacher.

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Predicate

• Simple Predicate the verb
• Complete predicate the verb all words
  modifying and completing meaning.

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Compound subjects and verb

• Compound subject consists of two or more subjects
  that are joined by a conjunction and have the
  same verb
• Examples Hinsdale South and Hinsdale Central
  belong to the West Suburban Conference.
• Compound verbs consists of two or more verbs that
  are joined by a conjunction and have the same
  subject.
• I brush and floss my teeth.

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How do I find the parts of a sentence?

• Find the verb.
• Subject ask who or what before the verb
• The coffee tasted strong.
• What tasted strong?
• Standing in front of the Space needle, Mr. Kelly
  looked huge.
• Who looked huge?

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YOU (understood)

• Run!
• Duck!
• Go to Hell!
• The subject is you (understood).

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Your turn

• Turn to exercise 1 Identifying Subjects and
  verbs on page 37
• Read and follow the directions on a clean piece
  of paper.

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The Direct Object

• Direct Object a noun, pronoun, or word group
  that tells who or what receives the action of the
  verb or shows the result of the action.
• The monster ate the boy.
• Answers the question, ate whom?

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The indirect object

• Indirect object is a noun, pronoun, or word group
  that precedes a direct object and tells to whom
  or to what the action is being done.
• The monster fed the monster gods a little boy.

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Four types of sentences

• Declarative
• Makes a statement and ends with a period.
• This sentence makes a statement and ends with a
  period.
• Interrogative
• Asks a question and ends with a question mark
• Does this interrogative question end with a
  question mark?
• Imperative
• Makes a request or gives a command.
• Make a command.
• Exclamatory
• Shows excitement or expresses strong feelings and
  ends with an exclamation point.
• I cant believe she won Homecoming queen!

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Homework

• Page 49 exercise A Identifying Sentences and
  Sentence Fragments, exercise B Identifying
  Subjects and Verbs, and exercise D Identifying
  the four kinds of sentences.