LANGUAGE

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LANGUAGE

• Sentences
• Subjects - Predicates
• Punctuation

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• SENTENCES
• When you read this, you are reading a sentence.
  Now you are reading another sentence. What is
  a sentence?

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• A sentence is a group of words that tells a
  complete thought. A sentence is a group
  of words that make sense.

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• Look at these groups
• of words.
• Are they sentences?
• 1. Jennifer walks to the beach.
• 2. She takes her dog with her.
• 3. in the water

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• Number 1 is a complete thought.
• Jennifer walks to the beach.
• Every sentence must start with a capital letter
  and ends with a punctuation mark.
• A sentence tells a complete thought.

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• Number 2 is also a sentence. It tells you a
  complete thought.
• She takes her dog with her.
• It also starts with a capital letter and ends
  with a period.

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• Number 3 is not a sentence. It does not tell you
  a complete thought. It leaves you with
  questions.
• in the water
• What is in the water?

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• Number 3 is a phrase. We can add words to make
  it a complete sentence.
• Change, in the water, to a complete sentence.

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• SUBJECTS
• Every sentence must have a subject.
• The subject is the who or what
  the sentence is about.

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• Jennifer walks her dog.
• To find the subject ask who or what.
• Who walks the dog?
• Jennifer walks the dog. Jennifer is the subject.

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• PREDICATE
• After you find the subject it is easy to find the
  predicate. The predicate is just about all of
  the other words in the sentence.

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• Jennifer walks her dog.
• Jennifer is the subject.
• walks her dog,
• is the predicate.
• The predicate is the verb and the words after
  the verb.

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• Can you find the subject and the predicate in the
  sentence below?
• Remember the subject tells you who or what.
• The predicate is the verb and the words after the
  verb.

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• STOP
• Lauren swims in the
• water.
• Circle the subject.
• Underline the predicate.

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• STOP
• Emmaly rode her blue
• bike in the street.
• Circle the subject.
• Underline the predicate.

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• Sometimes a subject has more than one word.
• See if you can find the subject in the next
  sentence.

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• Our new teacher has long brown hair.
• Remember to ask who or what?
• Who has long brown hair?

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• If you guessed, our new teacher,
  you are right!
• Sometimes extra words are used to describe the
  subject.

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• STOP
• Find the subject.
• My little grandbaby
• Madison has blue eyes.

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• Can you find the subject and the predicate of the
  next sentence?
• Subject who or what
• Predicate verb and words after the verb

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• STOP
• Circle the complete subject.
• Underline the complete
• predicate.
• The alien spaceship
• landed at our school.

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• Rules for Writing Sentences
• Rule 1. Every sentence must begin with a capital
  letter.
• Rule 2. Every sentence must end with a
  punctuation mark.
• Use different marks for different kinds of
  sentences.

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• . ? !
• You use a period to end sentences that tell
  something.
• Sentences that ask questions end with question
  marks.
• Sentences that show excitement end with an
  exclamation mark!

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• Now it is your turn.
• See if you can pick the correct punctuation for
  the next sentences.

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• We won __
• Whats for lunch__
• I got an A on the test__
• My dog ate the plant__
• Can you come over__

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• Bonus Find some complete sentences in books and
  magazines. Write down the sentences. Circle the
  complete subject and underline the complete
  predicate.