What is a sentence?
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The document defines what constitutes a sentence in English and identifies its key parts: a subject, a verb, and a complete idea. It notes that a sentence must have these elements, while examples without them are not considered sentences. Additionally, it outlines the main parts of a sentence - nouns, verbs, subjects, and pronouns - and provides examples to illustrate each part.
What is a sentence?
- 2. What is a sentence? In English, a sentence has: A subject A verb A complete idea
- 3. NOT A SENTENCE! NOT A SENTENCE! NOT A SENTENCE! SENTENCE! SENTENCE! SENTENCE!
- 4. Parts of a sentence: Noun verb subject pronoun
- 5. NOUNS ? A person ? A place ? A thing ? student, Carlos ? school, Everett High School ? movie, The Titanic
- 6. VERBS ? Action words ? Have ? Be ? walk, go, eat, listen ? have, has, had ? am, is, are, was, were
- 7. SUBJECTS ? Who or what the sentence is about ? Who or what does the action in the sentence ? Who or what is something ? Sam, Sherry, and Carlos have five brothers. ? My friend walks to school. ? Sam is smart.
- 8. PRONOUNS ? Replaces a noun ? I, you, he, she, it, we, they ? me, you, him, her, it, us, them ? my/mine, your, his, her, its, our, their ? Subject pronouns ? Object pronouns ? Possessive pronouns
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