WEEK 1 – The Sentence
A sentence is
a
unit of words
simple,
compound, complex, and compound-complex
made
of a subject and a verb, and a complete thought
Subject
The
simple subject is the singular noun or plural nouns that do the action of the
verb.
The
complete subject is the simple subject with any modifiers.
Verb
The
simple verb may consist of one word or a group of words. These are the action words of the sentence.
The
complete subject is also called the predicate.
It contains modifiers, direct objects, and indirect objects.
Fragment
A
fragment often looks like a sentence with a capital letter and an end
punctuation. However, it is missing
either a subject, a verb, or a complete thought.
Examples:
The Run-on
A
Run-on sentence is two or more sentences improperly joined by wrong puncutaion,
no punctuation, or a conjunction that needs help from some kind of
punctuation.
Correcting
a Run-on sentence
1. Make
two sentences.
2. Join
the two clauses by using a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
3. Join
the two clauses with a semicolon.
4. Join
the two clauses with a semicolon and a connector with a comma (but not a
coordinating conjunction.
5. Subordinate
one of the clauses.
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