Friday, August 30, 2013

Grammar Week 1 -- The Sentence

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 punctuation, 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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