WEEK 1 – The Sentence
A sentence is
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a unit of words
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simple, compound,
complex, and compound-complex
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made of a subject
and a verb, and a complete thought
Subject
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The simple
subject is the singular noun or plural nouns that do the action of the verb.
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The complete
subject is the simple subject with any modifiers.
Verb
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The simple verb
may consist of one word or a group of words.
These are the action words of the sentence.
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The complete
subject is also called the predicate. It
contains modifiers, direct objects, and indirect objects.
Fragment
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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
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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.
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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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