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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