Sentence Formation

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Sentence Formation

• Domain Three of the Writing Assessment

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Sentence Formation

• Definition Refers to how well you form effective
  sentences
• Components
• Clarity of meaning
• Complete sentences and/or functional fragments
• Sentence variation (length, type, beginnings,
  coordination, and subordination)
• End punctuation

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Subject

• The subject is who or what the sentence is
  about.
• Mr. Turner is giving the Best Man Speech at
  Brett Niinas wedding.

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Predicate

• The predicate is what the subject does or what
  happens to the subject.
• Example The crocodile ate the clock.

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Predicate

• The predicate may contain a DIRECT OBJECT that
  receives the action of the sentence,
• Or an INDIRECT OBJECT that tells to whom or for
  whom the action is done.

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Direct Indirect Objects
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Types of Punctuation

• Name punctuation marks frequently used in
  writing
• Period (.)
• Question Mark (?)
• Exclamation Mark (!)
• Comma (,)
• Colon ()
• Semicolon ()

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Checking Your Understanding

• Add the final punctuation to each of these
  sentences.
• The baker took the hot loaves of bread from the
  oven

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• Where is the best place to buy a computer
• I have never been happier in all my life
• Write three sentences of your own.
• Circle the subject and underline the
• predicate.

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Fragments Run-Ons

• A sentence fragment is written with
  capitalization and end punctuation like it is a
  complete sentence, even though it is not.
• Clauses beginning with after, until, because, or
  since are not complete sentences by themselves.
  Ex After I went shopping.
• Words ending in ing cannot be used as the verb
  in a sentence without a helping verb. Ex. The
  girls making a cake.

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Checking Your Understanding

• Combine each pair of sentences as complex
  sentences.
• The tall, thin man wore a yellow raincoat. There
  wasnt a cloud in the sky.
• 2. Selmas pet dog was hungry. Selmas family
  had gone away for the day.

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