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Sentences:. What are they?. Must have two parts!. Subject person who does an action thing that does action p erson described in sentence Thing described in sentence Verb Action: jump, scream, fly State of being: appear, seem, feel. Complete Thought!.
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Sentences: What are they?
Must have two parts! • Subject • person who does an action • thing that does action • person described in sentence • Thing described in sentence • Verb • Action: jump, scream, fly • State of being: appear, seem, feel
Complete Thought! • A sentence must contain AT LEAST one subject AND one VERB, and it MUST form a complete thought.
FRAGMENT • A FRAGMENT is missing a subject OR verb, and/ or it doesn’t contain a complete thought. • It may look like a sentence!!! • It may have a capital letter!!! • It may be punctuated!!!
Why not fragments? • They make your writing appear sloppy! Unless you use them intentionally!!! • They make you look careless.Unless you use them intentionally!!! • They make your writing choppy and hard to understand. Unless you use them intentionally!!!
How to spot them: • Must know a simple sentence • Simple sentences have a subject & a verb! • They can also have other words, phrases, & clauses… or not! • Who did something? What did they do?
Practice • When I was five. I had a Chuckie doll. I would scare everybody with Chuckie. Chuckie was about two feet, had orange hair, little red and white shoes, overalls, and plastic knife. I replaced the plastic knife with a real knife. To make Chuckie look more like the real thing. From the kitchen drawer. Like a mini-butcher knife. I super-glued it to Chuckie’s hand. Ready for business.