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BUILDING IDEAS

BUILDING IDEAS. A LESSON ON SENTENCES. What do you notice about the statements below?. A cat up the tree. The pie on the table. Cars on the road. Fragments. * They do not express a complete idea. What do you notice about the statements now ?. There is a cat up the tree.

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BUILDING IDEAS

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  1. BUILDING IDEAS A LESSON ON SENTENCES

  2. What do you notice about the statements below? • A cat up the tree. • The pie on the table. • Cars on the road. Fragments * They do not express a complete idea.

  3. What do you notice about the statements now? • There is a cat up the tree. • The pie on the table is mine. • Cars on the road move fast. Sentences * They each express ONE COMPLETE IDEA.

  4. NOTICE THE CHANGE: SENTENCE: FRAGMENT: • A cat up the tree. • The pie on the table. • Cars on the road. • There is a cat up the tree. • The pie on the table is mine. • Cars on the road move fast. *one complete idea *incomplete idea

  5. WHAT IS THE SUM? ONE COMPLETE IDEA ONE COMPLETE IDEA = Two complete ideas There is a cat up the tree. I see a bird up there. There is a cat up the tree AND I see a bird up there, too.

  6. TWO COMPLETE IDEAS - ONE SENTENCE There is a cat up the tree AND I see a bird up there, too. * Use connecting words to add one complete idea to another. Example of connecting words are: AND, BUT, OR, NOR, YET

  7. LET’S ADD SOME MORE! There is a cat up the tree,AND I see a bird up the tree, AND I see a butterfly too! 1 complete idea 1 complete idea + 1 complete idea 3 complete ideas in one sentence

  8. TWO OR MORE COMPLETE IDEAS IN ONE SENTENCE 2 COMPLETE IDEAS: There is a cat up the tree AND I see a bird up there, too. 3 COMPLETE IDEAS: There is a cat up the tree, I see a bird up there, AND I see a butterfly too! THESE ARE COMPOUND SENTENCES.

  9. LET’S REVIEW:

  10. What happens if we add simple sentence + fragment?

  11. What is the sum of 1 + ½ ? one complete idea SIMPLE SENTENCE There is a cat up the tree. incomplete idea FRAGMENT Because there is a bird up the there. There is a cat up the tree because there is a bird up there.

  12. 1 ½ ideas in a sentence is calledCOMPLEX SENTENCE one complete idea SIMPLE SENTENCE There is a cat up the tree. incomplete idea FRAGMENT Because there is a bird up there. There is a cat up the tree because there is a bird up there.

  13. HOW TO FIND COMPLEX SENTENCES: Watch out for fragment connectors like: BECAUSE, ALTHOUGH, IF, SINCE, SO, THEN, UNLESS, BEFORE, UNTIL,WHEN, WHERE, WHILE

  14. LET’S REVIEW:

  15. QUESTIONS?

  16. Use the fragments below to make asimple sentence, compound sentence, and a complex sentence. • A star in the sky. • My foot at the door. • The house on the mountain. • Visitors in the courtyard. • That nest on the ledge. • Onions in the hamburger. • The cold, dark chamber. • A high-pitched voice. • Her billowing skirt. • Inside the bare house.

  17. What is wrong with the sentences below? • There was a student named Jenny she was in grade six. • Her parents did not let her join the field trip so Jenny stayed in school doing extra school work because she was all by herself because her entire class went on the field trip. • It started raining very hard classes were suspended. • Every time it started to rain.

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