Transcript Theme 1 Grammar

Theme 1 Grammar
Kinds of Sentences
 Declarative
sentence- makes a statement,
ends with a period
 Interrogative sentence- asks a question,
ends with a question mark
 Imperative sentence- gives a command or
makes a request, ends with a period
 Exclamatory sentence- shows excitement
or strong feeling, ends with an exclamation
point
Subjects and Predicates
 Subject-
tells whom or what the sentence
is about, noun or pronoun
 Simple subject- the main word (noun or
pronoun)
 Complete subject-all the words in the
subject
 Predicate-tells
what the subject does, is,
has, or feels. ALWAYS a verb
 Simple predicate- the main word or words
(verb or verb phrase)
 Complete predicate- includes all the words
in the predicate
Combining Sentences
 If
two sentences have the same predicate
the subjects can be combined as a
compound subject using and or or.
 If two sentences have the same subject,
the predicates can be combined.
More About Sentences
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Complex sentence- has at least one subordinate
clause and an independent clause
Clause- contains both a subject and a predicate
Independent clause- can stand by itself as a
sentence
Subordinate clause- cannot stand by itself
The subordinating conjunction that begins a
subordinate clause makes one part of the
sentence subordinate to the other part
Fragments and Run-Ons
 Fragment-
is missing a subject or
predicate
 Run-on- two or more sentences that are
run together into one sentence
Kinds of Nouns
 Common
noun-names any person, place,
thing, or idea
 Proper noun- names a particular person,
place, thing, or idea. Always capitalized.
 Singular noun- names one person, place,
thing, or idea
 Plural noun- names more than one
person, place, thing, or idea
–s or –es to most singular nouns to
form the plural. Use the spelling of the
singular noun to decide how to form the
plural.
 Some nouns have the same singular and
plural forms
 Some nouns are spelled differently in the
plural
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