Transcript The Parts of a Sentence - Hinsdale South High School

The Parts of a
Sentence
Subjects, Predicates, and Complements
Sentence
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Definition: A sentence is
a word group that
contains a subject and a
verb and expresses a
complete thought.
Examples:
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A geek bites the heads off
chickens.
Another type of geek
teaches English.
Sentence Fragment
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Definition: A word or
word group that does
not contain a subject or a
verb or does not express
a compete thought.
Examples:
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Tonight’s homework.
After you finish the
homework.
Subject and Predicate
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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.
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Subject
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Simple subject: the main
word or word group that tells
whom or what the sentence
is about.
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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.
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The principal of our school fired
the uncompetent English
teacher.
Predicate
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Simple Predicate: the verb
Complete predicate: the verb + all words
modifying and completing meaning.
Compound subjects and verb
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Compound subject consists of two or more
subjects that are joined by a conjunction and
have the same verb:
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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.
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I brush and floss my teeth.
How do I find the parts of a
sentence?
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Find the verb.
Subject: ask who or what
before the verb:
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The coffee tasted strong.
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What tasted strong?
Standing in front of the
Space needle, Mr. Kelly
looked huge.
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Who looked huge?
YOU (understood)
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Run!
Duck!
Go to Hell!
The subject is you (understood).
Your turn
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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
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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.
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The monster ate the boy.
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Answers the question, “ate whom?”
The indirect object
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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.
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The monster fed the monster gods a little boy.
Four types of sentences
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Declarative:
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Makes a statement and ends with a period.
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Interrogative
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Asks a question and ends with a question mark
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Does this interrogative question end with a question mark?
Imperative:
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Makes a request or gives a command.
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This sentence makes a statement and ends with a period.
Make a command.
Exclamatory:
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Shows excitement or expresses strong feelings and ends with an
exclamation point.
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I can’t believe she won Homecoming queen!
Homework
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Page 49 “exercise A: Identifying Sentences and
Sentence Fragments,” “exercise B: Identifying
Subjects and Verbs,” and “exercise D:
Identifying the four kinds of sentences.”