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A challenging game for Grade 2 students to test and build their sentence making skills.
A simple sentence is a group of words that contains at least one subject - a noun - and one verb that have four different functions - a statement, a question, an exclamation, or a command. A sentence gives you information about the subject using the verb - either action or linking - to add more information. They're usually followed by an adjective or a direct object in order to complete the idea with more detailed information.
Identifying a Simple Sentence Part 1
Identifying a Simple Sentence Part 2
Identifying a Simple Sentence Part 3
Compound sentences join two ideas together. They join two or more independent clauses together. (Remember that an independent clause MUST hav4e a subject and a verb.). Compound sentences can have the same four functions as a simple sentence, but they are usually used to give more information about a subject or to describe a situation or thing in more detail.
Identifying a Compound Sentence Part 1
Identifying a Compound Sentence Part 2
Identifying the Best Way to Combine Simple Sentences to Form a Compound Sentence
Identifying a Compound Sentence Part 3
Complex sentences contain two types of clauses: dependent and independent. They must have one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. To join the clauses, we use subordinating conjunctions and/or relative pronouns AND a comma to divide them.
Identifying Complex Sentences
We use the four basic types of sentences in our writing to convey different tones. Declarative sentences form a statement. Interrogative sentences form a question. Imperative sentences make a command or a polite request. Exclamatory sentences show powerful feelings.
Identifying a Sentence as a Statement, Command, Question, or Exclamation Part 1
Identifying a Sentence as Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, or Exclamatory Part 1
Identifying Statement, Command, Question, or Exclamation
Identifying a Sentence as Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, or Exclamatory Part 2
Simple sentence consists of a single independent clause. It has a subject and a verb, and expresses a single complete thought. Remember, it does not contain a dependent clause or another simple sentence. A compound sentence is made from two independent clauses, which are short sentences, that are combined with a conjunction (and). In a compound sentence, each clause, or each part, before and after the conjunction, would make sense on its own. A sentence that combines two clauses and uses a subordinating conjunction is called a complex sentence.
Identifying Sentences as Simple, Compound or Complex
You have to make really mad sentences here. There are five columns using which you have to make complete sentences. Click on any one image under each column moving from left to right. Read your mad sentence. Laugh heartily!
The subject is the person or thing (object) that the sentence is about. This person or thing is doing something in the sentence. To figure out who or what is the subject, first find the verb of the sentence. Then ask yourself who or what is doing that action. Sometimes, there is no subject like in the case of the imperative sentence, it is when someone gives a command or an order. In these sentences, you don't see a subject. But the subject is "you." It does not need to be said; it is understood.
Identifying the Subject Part 1
Identifying the Subject in a Sentence
Identifying the Subject Part 3
Determining the Position of the Subject Part 3
A predicate is what is being said about the subject in a sentence. In other words, it describes what is happening. A predicate is a verb with several other words. Sometimes, the predicate can be only a verb. To figure out what the predicate is, first identify the subject of the sentence. Then, look at the rest of the sentence to see what the subject is doing.
Identifying the Set of Words as Subject or Predicate
Identifying the Predicate Part 1
Determining the Position of the Predicate Part 1
Identifying the Predicate Part 2
A simple subject is a subject that has just one noun or pronoun as the focus of the sentence. This means that only one noun or pronoun does the action, or connects, to the verb of the sentence. The simple predicate is the verbs or verbs that are connected to the subject.
Identifying the Simple Subject Part 1
Identifying the Simple Predicate Part 1
Identifying the Simple Subject Part 2
Identifying the Simple Predicate Part 2
Sometimes a subject may be more than one thing or person. They have more than one noun or pronoun and are called compound subjects. Sometimes one subject may be doing more than one thing. There may be more than one verb and these are called compound predicates.
Identifying the Compound Predicate Part 1
Identifying the Compound Subject Part 2
Identifying the Compound Predicate Part 2
Identifying the Compound Subject part 3
A fragment is only a piece of a complete thought that has been punctuated like a sentence. If a sentence is missing either a subject or a verb, it is considered a fragment.
Identifying Fragments Part 1
Sentence Fragments
Identifying Fragments Part 2
Change Fragments into Complete Sentence Part 2
A run-on is when two sentences are "combined," or "run together" without the necessary connecting words or punctuation (or both of these!). If two sentences are written together without any punctuation at all, this is a fused sentence.
Identifying Run-ons Part 1
Identifying Group of Words as a Run-on or a Sentence Part 1
Identifying Group of Words as a Fragment or Run-on or a Sentence Part 1
Change Run-ons into Complete Sentence Part 1
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