What is a A sentence is a group of words that...

~tells a complete thought.

sentence?
~tells who or what the sentence is about.
~tells what happened.
~begins with a capital letter.
~ends with a punctuation mark ( . ! ? )

<----- sentence ----->

A sentence ALWAYS HAS a subject and a predicate:
<-subject-> <--predicate-->
The SUBJECT tells who or what and the PREDICATE
tells what the SUBJECT did or does. (who or what) (the action)

verb

Practice You cook cabbage

Part A--Draw a line between the subject and the predicate of each sentence.

1. The dog ate the hamburger.

2. Mary had a little lamb.
3. You girls did a good job.
4. The giraffe ate three bales of hay.
5. Billy and I went to a scary movie.
Part B—The subject is missing in these sentences. Make one up and add it.
6. __________________________ ran down the street.
7. ___________________________ threw the cow over the barn.
8. ____________________________ walked from Literacy Action to Decatur.
9. ____________________________ has 17 grandchildren.
10. ______________________________ are really nice people.
Part C—Make up a predicate so the subject of the sentence will have something to do!
11. The Cowardly Lion _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

12. My mother and all my aunties ____________________________________________________________________________________.

13. The big blue car_____________________________________________________________________________________________________.

14. Thirteen tiny little space aliens ___________________________________________________________________________________.

15. The bus driver _____________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Part D—Tell whether or not each of these is a complete sentence.
Complete Sentence
Sentence? Fragment?
16. Herman drove the car to work yesterday. 
17. The delicious red strawberries.

18. The family had a very old black dog.

19. Minnie went to college.

20. The oldest book.

21. Just had triplets.

22. The babies cried all day.

23. Susan wants a big red apple

24. From the apple tree.

25. Red and green flashing lights.

Part E—Write ten common nouns and ten proper nouns.

Common nouns Proper nouns Words that are not nouns at all

a. __________________________ a. __________________________ a. __________________________

b. __________________________
c. __________________________
d. __________________________
e. __________________________
f. __________________________
g. __________________________
h. __________________________
i. __________________________
j. __________________________
b. __________________________
c. __________________________
d. __________________________
e. __________________________
f. __________________________
g. __________________________
h. __________________________
i. __________________________
j. __________________________
b. __________________________
c. __________________________
d. __________________________
e. __________________________
f. __________________________
g. __________________________
h. __________________________
i. __________________________
j. __________________________

Part F—Extra Credit

**What country do you live in? ________________________ **What continent do you live on? _______________________
**If you got in a car and went WEST, what state would you come to? ___________________________
**What city is the Capitol of Georgia? _____________________ **Who is the governor of Georgia? ___________________