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The Parts of a Sentence. Subjects, Predicates, and Complements. 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. Sentence Fragment.
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The Parts of a Sentence Subjects, Predicates, and Complements
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.
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: • Tonight’s homework. • After you finish the homework.
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.
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.
Predicate • Simple Predicate: the verb • Complete predicate: the verb + all words modifying and completing meaning.
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.
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?
YOU (understood) • Run! • Duck! • Go to Hell! • The subject is you (understood).
Your turn • Turn to exercise 1: Identifying Subjects and verbs on page 37 • Read and follow the directions on a clean piece of paper.
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?”
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.
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 can’t believe she won Homecoming queen!
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.”
