Sentences

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Sentences

• What are sentences?
• How can we make them properly?

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What do you need for a sentence?
You need 3 things to have a sentence

• Subject person or thing to do an action
• Predicate the action (verb)
• FULL Thought

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Identify the Subject and Predicate.

• John went to the store for my mom.

John went to the store for my mom.
Jackson and Mike ate ice cream.
Jackson and Mike ate ice cream.
Kailey spilled her juice and made a mess with her
toys.
Kailey spilled her juice and made a mess with her
toys.
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Compounds

• Homework is a compound word because it combines
  two words.
• What do you think a compound subject is?
• What do you think a compound predict is?
• Sentences that just have one subject and one
  predicate are SIMPLE sentences.

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Identify the Compounds
Jackson and Mike ate ice cream.
Compound SUBJECT Jackson and Mike are the people
doing the action (eating)
Kailey spilled her juice and made a mess with her
toys.
Compound PREDICATE spilled and made are the verbs
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Compound Sentences

• Compound sentences combine two complete sentences
  into one sentence.

Creating compound sentences may help us avoid
Run-Ons, sentences that just wont end. Another
way to avoid run-ons is to simply divide the
sentence into independent sentences. Compound
sentences may also make somewhat simple writing
suddenly become more complex.
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Making a Compound Sentence

• There are two ways to make a compound sentence

1. Combine sentences using a comma (,) AND a
conjunction.
Conjunctions are the small words we use to
connect our thoughts. Some conjunctions include
and, but, so, yet
2. Combine sentences using a semicolon ().
When you are using this option, the sentences
should be very closely linked. For example I ran
out of the room I had to get sick.
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Fixing Sentences

• STUDENT EXAMPLES