Transcript Sentence Workshop What is a sentence?

Sentence
Workshop
What is a sentence?
Write down a definition for “sentence” in
your own words. You have one minute!
What is a sentence?
Official Definition:
A group of words with a subject and
predicate that conveys an
independent statement, question,
request, or command
Write this down!
Many definitions:
Subject + Predicate = Sentence
Subject: Noun, noun phrase, or pronoun
with other words like articles and
adjectives
Predicate: Verb with other words that
describe the subject or the verb
Noun
A noun = person, place, thing or idea
Common nouns = words that name things in a
general sense: car, dog, person, building,
state, music, book, etc.
Proper nouns = the specific name of things:
Mercedes, Fido, Empire State Building,
Delaware, The Face on the Milk Carton, etc.
Noun Practice
Proper nouns stand out, while common
nouns blend in with the crowd.
If you were at a concert and Eminem
walked out into the crowd of 40,000
people, you would notice him instantly.
Common to Proper Noun
Practice
Rewrite the sentences replacing the
vague, general nouns with specific
proper nouns.
1. At the arena, I cheered for the winning
team.
2. Meg got jeans, running shoes and a
CD for her birthday.
Verb
An action word or a word that conveys a state of
being like “is”
Action verbs = words that express what a
person, animal, force of nature, or thing can
do: sneeze, wink, slam, whine, whimper, play,
etc.
Helping/linking verbs = words that help action
verbs or verbs that make connections or links
between words in the sentence: is, be, am,
are, was, were, been, has, have, had, do,
does, did, can, could, etc.
Identifying Verb Practice:
My family took a journey to Canada, a
friendly nation full of kind people and
giant plastic animals. We wanted to see
the world’s largest turkey. We found it in
Slipwaddle, Ontario. It was noon when
we arrived. The sun seared my skin,
cooked my hair, and melted my tennis
shoes.
Answers:
My family took a journey to Canada, a
friendly nation full of kind people and
giant plastic animals. We wanted to see
the world’s largest turkey. We found it
in Slipwaddle, Ontario. It was noon
when we arrived. The sun seared my
skin, cooked my hair, and melted my
tennis shoes.
Subject/Predicate
Identification
Circle subjects and underline predicates:
1. Three pelicans flew over the beach.
2. The children build a sandcastle.
3. Ben played chess with Alex.
4. Everyone in the stadium watched the
game.
5. The microwave beeped.
Subject/Predicate
Practice
1.
2.
3.
4.
Three pelicans flew over the beach.
The children build a sandcastle.
Ben played chess with Alex.
Everyone in the stadium watched the
game.
5. The microwave beeped.
Sentence Fragment
It’s NOT a sentence.
It’s NOT a complete thought.
It’s what many of you gave me when I
asked for complete sentences on the
playlist assignment!
Ex: Chose “Never Gonna Give You Up”
because it talks about never giving up.
What’s missing from this sentence?
Sentence Fragment
Ex: Chose “Never Gonna Give You Up”
because it talks about never giving up.
Q: What’s missing from this sentence?
A: A subject, a noun that does the
“choosing.”
Write this sentence fragment as a
complete sentence.
Sentence Fragment Fix
My group chose “Never Gonna Give You
Up” because it talks about never giving
up.
Note: We have a subject and a predicate.
We have a noun and an action. This
sentence expresses a complete
thought. You have changed a sentence
fragment into a sentence.
Dependent Clause
A group of words that has a subject and a verb
but cannot stand alone as a sentence.
This is another type of sentence fragment!
Ex: Because she thought she was smarter than
the others.
What word makes this depend on something
else to be a complete sentence?
Dependent Clause
Practice
Ex: Because she thought she was smarter than
the others.
What word makes this depend on something
else to be a complete sentence?
Because she thought she was smarter than the
others.
How could you correct this to make it a
complete sentence?
Dependent Clause
Correction
1. Take off the word that makes it dependent:
She thought she was smarter than the
others.
That would work if you didn’t want to explain
more.
2. Because she thought she was smarter than
the others, she wanted to be the group
leader.
That correction gives more explanation and is
usually the better way to correct a dependent
clause.
Identifying Sentence
Fragments
Place an S for sentence or an F for a sentence
fragment/dependent clause.
1. If your parents think today’s fashions are weird.
2. They should see the clothes people wore in the
Middle Ages.
3. Liked clothes that were half one color and half
another.
4. People often heavy leather belts decorated with
metal and jewels.
5. Edges of clothing into shapes called dagges.
6. Sleeves with streamers that were two or
three feet long.
7. Shoes had long toes that were padded to
retain their shape.
8. Tights of velvet or silk.
9. When clothes were edged and lined in fur.
10. Layers very common in medieval clothing.
11. Was a way of displaying wealth.
12. The more clothes a person could afford to
wear, the wealthier that person was.
Sentence Workshop
Wrap-Up
Complete Sentence = subject + predicate
Complete Sentence = noun + verb
Complete Sentence = Not a fragment
Complete Sentence = Not a dependent clause