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The Complete Sentence

The Complete Sentence. The base of your writing!. Parts of a complete sentence. Subject = what the sentence is about. Predicate = what the subject does or is. Contains the verb. Complete thought = complete thought! Punctuation = capital letter at start; punctuation at end.

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The Complete Sentence

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  1. The Complete Sentence The base of your writing!

  2. Parts of a complete sentence • Subject = what the sentence is about. • Predicate = what the subject does or is. Contains the verb. • Complete thought = complete thought! • Punctuation = capital letter at start; punctuation at end.

  3. By definition… • If the writing does not have any ONE of these components, it is NOT a grammatical sentence! • Just because it looks like a sentence does not make it so!

  4. Complete Thought • “Sense of closure” at end of sentence? • “Sense of hanging on” at end of sentence? • Oftentimes difficult to “feel” in a sentence until better practiced.

  5. Length does not matter • Must look at grammatical structures. • Length does not matter in sentence structure. • 4 parts do!

  6. Examples They race. Subject Verb Complete thought: YES! Not a lot of description, but yes. Caps and Punc: YES!

  7. Examples Maria flinches. Subject Verb Complete thought: YES! Not a lot of description, but yes. Caps and Punc: YES!

  8. Examples Go! Subject Verb Complete thought: YES! Not a lot of description, but yes. Caps and Punc: YES!

  9. Examples (You) Go! Subject Verb Complete thought: YES! Not a lot of description, but yes. Caps and Punc: YES!

  10. All sentences • Must “boil down” to this basic SUBJECT and PERDICATE pattern. • When challenged by difficult writing, find the SUBJECT and the PERDICATE. • Get rid of all the descriptors. • Get rid of all the prepositional phrases. • Get TO the BASE of the sentence for meaning.

  11. Compound Subjects and Verbs • Sentences may have multiple subjects and / or verbs • Compound just means “more than one” in grammar-talk John and Frank rode the bus. Subject Subject Verb

  12. Compound Examples Tom and Jerry chased the chicken. Sally went home and watched TV. Subject Subject Verb Subject Verb Verb

  13. For example… We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

  14. We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. We… do ordain / establish Verbs Subject

  15. Symbol for complete sentence • From here on, we’ll label a complete sentence as follows: • Implies all 4 parts: • Subject, verb, thought, and caps and punc. SENTENCE

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