Is

Is It
It or
or Isn’t
Isn’t It?
It?
The art of the sentence
 What do you notice?

My hair wakes up stupid.

-Tony Johnston, Any Small Goodness (2003)

Is this a sentence?
 What do you notice?
My sweat smells like peanut
butter. -Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (2006)

Is this a sentence?
Who or what smells like peanut butter?
What does the subject – my sweat – do?
 Let’s Play:
Is It
or
Isn’t It?
• Subject: Who or what did or is
something?

• Verb (predicate): What are they or

what did they do?
 I lied.
He paced.
And mosquitoes.
I will.
Bella shrugged.
Not good.
Jacob could.
Another corpse.
Jonas frowned.
She shivered.
Okay then.
Jonas laughed.
About living.
Amy turned.
Jeff nodded.
To look.
Jeff sighed.
 Invitation to Collect
(for fabulous prizes!)
• When you find a two-word sentence
in your reading (they are rare), write
it on a sticky note and add it to the
poster with the title of the book
AND the page where you found it.
• It must have a subject and a verb to
be a sentence.