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“ I’ve never known a person who wasn’t interested in language.”

Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms Presented by Amy Benjamin www.amybenjamin.com. Part Three: Complete Sentences. “ I’ve never known a person who wasn’t interested in language.” -Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct. Now Entering the Complete Sentence Zone :

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“ I’ve never known a person who wasn’t interested in language.”

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  1. Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms Presented by Amy Benjamin www.amybenjamin.com Part Three: Complete Sentences “ I’ve never known a person who wasn’t interested in language.” -Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct

  2. Now Entering the Complete Sentence Zone: Here are three ways to test whether a group of words forms a complete sentence. (We are talking ONLY about DECLARATIVE sentences.)

  3. Now Entering the Complete Sentence Zone: Test One: The “Guess What!” test How it works: Say “Guess What!” in front of a group of words. If the group of words tells you “guess what!” then you have a complete sentence!

  4. Now Entering the Complete Sentence Zone: Test Two: The “They believed that…” test How it works: Say “They believed that…” in front of a group of words. If the group of words makes sense when you say “They believed that…” in front of it, then you have a complete sentence!

  5. Now Entering the Complete Sentence Zone: Test Three: The “Yes/No Question” test How it works: Can you turn your group of words into a question that can be answered with YES or NO? If you can, then your group of words is a complete sentence.

  6. I went to bed early because <GUESS WHAT> I don’t have my homework because <GUESS WHAT’>

  7. Now, reverse: Because <GUESS WHAT>, I went to bed early I don’t have my homework Because <GUESS WHAT, >

  8. The game will be cancelled IF<GUESS WHAT> Our team usually wins WHEN <GUESS WHAT>

  9. When <GUESS WHAT>, the game was cancelled. our team usually wins. When <GUESS WHAT, >

  10. Sentence Workout: Step One: Explain what is happening in your picture. Step Two: Now, experiment with many different ways to write your sentence: Ex: Begin with There is/ There are____________. Don’t begin with the or a. Write a yes/no question. Write a Who? or What? or When? or Where? or Why? question. Write a sentence that has an -ING word. Write a sentence that does not use IS or ARE or WAS or WERE. Write a sentence that uses BECAUSE in the middle. Reverse that sentence to have BECAUSE as the first word. Write a sentence that use SO in the middle. Write a sentence that needs two commas. Write a sentence for each of the three sentence patterns: Subject + Verb. Subject + Verb + Object. Subject + Verb + Complement.

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