SENTENCE EXPANSION Take 2

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SENTENCE EXPANSIONTake 2

• Focusing Writing Through Structures
• The BASIC ACTION SENTENCE

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THE BASIC ACTION SENTENCE

• WHO or WHAT ACTION (subject predicate)
• MSTMain Sentence Trunk

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The Basic Action Sentence

• Subject and Predicate
• The basic action sentence has two parts the part
  that tells 1. WHO or WHAT is doing the action,
  plus the ACTION itself. The ACTION tells what the
  subject did in the past, is doing now, or will do
  in the future.
• The WHO or WHAT part is often called the subject
  of the sentence. The ACTION part is often called
  the predicate.

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Examples

• who action
• 1. MSTThe boy rode on a sled.
• what action
• 2. MSTThe wagon rolled down the hill.
• SAMPLE 'WHO/WHAT's"
• the baker, the fireman, the cat,
• the shark, the magician, the dancer. the spider,
  the artist, the surfer,
• the clown, the dinosaur, the thief, the teacher,
  the train, the airplane,
• SAMPLE ACTIONS
• ran to the store, barked, swam in the ocean,
  painted a picture. put out the fire. scared the
  people. performed a trick, ate apple pie,
• arrived early, practiced a new dance,
• decided to play.jumped, taught the class

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THE TRUNK

• The trunk is the main part of a tree!
• Without it a tree would not be possible.
• The Basic ActionSentence is like the trunk of a
  tree in that there could be NO sentence without
  it.
• The Basic Action Sentence (the part that tells
  WHO or WHAT plus the ACTION) might be thought of
  as the MAIN SENTENCE TRUNK. Just as there would
  be no tree without a trunk, there would be no
  sentence without a MAIN SENTENCE TRUNK!

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• WHO or WHAT ACTION GROUP 1 and ACTION GROUP 2.
• (subject compound predicate)
• In the Basic Action Sentence, the WHO or WHAT may
  do two separate actions.
• EXAMPLE
• who action group 1 and action group
• The man jumped from the roof and landed on his
  feet.

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YOUR TURN

• DIRECTIONS
• Write a sentence with the pattern
• WHO or WHAT action group 1 and action group 2.
• EXAMPLE
• what action group 1 and action group 2.
• The penguin threw a snowball and hit the other
  penguin in the head.

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• DIRECTIONS
• Write a 2 sentence narrative sequence
• Sentence 1 use the following pattern
• WHO or WHAT
• ACTION GROUP 1 and ACTION GROUP 2.
• Sentence 2 make it short
• EXAMPLE 1
• Sentence 1The girl danced peacefully and twirled
  with grace in her beautiful, flowing gown.
• Sentence 2 She looked like an angel.
• EXAMPLE 2
• Sentence 1 The bird sat on a small branch in the
  oak tree and chirped a sweet tune.
• Sentence 2 Then, it flew away.
• GOLDEN RULE REMINDER Vary phrase length!

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• In the Basic Action Sentence, the WHO or WHAT may
  do three separate actions. Use commas to separate
  each action group. EXAMPLE
• who action group 1, action group 2, and action
  group 3.
• The squirrel sat on a limb, held a nut in his
  paws, and began to eat.

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WRITE!

• Write a sentence with the following pattern that
  has three action groups
• WHO or WHAT
• action group 1, action group 2, and action group
  3.
• EXAMPLE
• The cat batted at the ball, looked around, and
  ran up the curtain with great speed.
• Look at the pattern long, short, long .

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WRITE

• Write a two sentence sequence (a two sentence
  story) with the following pattern
• Sentence 1 WHO/WHAT action.
• Sentence 2 WHO/WHAT action group 1, action
  group 2, and action group 3.
• EXAMPLE
• WHO Action.
• WHO action group , action group 2, and action 3.
• The lady called for help. She picked up the
  phone, dialed 911, and nervously waited to report
  the accident.

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LETS PRACTICE!

• Who/What________________
• ACTION/VERB _________________.
• TOPIC ______________