The Parts

of a
Sentence
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

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 Class Objectives:

Define the sentence and its parts (subjects and predicates).

Define the sentence fragments.

Differentiate sentences from sentence fragments.

• Identify simple and complete subjects.

• Identify simple and complete predicates.

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 A sentence is a word group
that contains a subject and
The Sentence
a verb and that expresses a
complete thought.

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A sentence begins with a capital letter
and ends with a period, a question
mark, or an exclamation point.

Sean was chosen captain of his soccer team.

Have you ever seen a Broadway musical?
What a thrilling adventure!
Stop!
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 A sentence Fragment is a word group that
Sentence looks like a sentence but does not contain both
Fragment a subject and a verb or does not express a
complete idea.

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 Examples of Sentences and Sentence Fragments
Sentence The old tree in the front yard.
fragment
Sentence The old tree is still standing in the front yard.
Sentence Upon hearing the good news.
fragment
Sentence Upon hearing the good news, the audience applauded.

Sentence Even though she had worked on it a long time.

fragment
Sentence Louis Nevelson had not completed the sculpture even thoguh
she had worked on it a long time.
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 Pair work
1. ____ Standing in the hall by the fountain.
2. ____ After walking for days across the desert.
3. ____ Do you believe that lightning never strikes the same
place twice?
4. ____ On the lawn in front of the school.
5. ____ We made popcorn to take to the drive-in movie.
6. ____ The weather was good yesterday in the morning.
7. ____ When the storm was over.

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 The Subject and The Predicate
Some sentences consists of two basic parts:
subjects and predicates.

The subject tells whom or what the sentence is

about.
The predicate says something about the subject.

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In the following examples, the subjects are
separated from the predicates by blue vertical
lines. Notice that the subject and the predicate
may be only one word each, or they may be more
than one word.

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 Examples of Subjects and Predicates

Coyotes were howling in the distance.

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 Examples of Subjects and Predicates

The telephone in the lobby rang.

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 Examples of Subjects and Predicates

The woman wearing the red blouse is my aunt.

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Examples of Subjects and Predicates

In the three examples of the previous slides, the

words that appear to the left of the vertical line
make up the complete subject. The words to the
right of the vertical line make up the complete
predicate.
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 The eager scientist examined the cave.

Examples of
Does Bryan´s car have a CD player?
Subjects
On the table stood a silver vase.

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 The Subject
The main word or word group that tells whom or
what the sentence is about is called the simple
subject.

The complete subject consists of the simple

subject and any words phrases, or clauses that
modify the simple subject.

In this class, the term subject generally refers to the simple subject unless
otherwise indicated.

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 The Subject
Example:

The supportive and enthusiastic crowd cheered for the marathon runners.

Simple subject: crowd

Complete subject: The supportive and enthusiastic crowd

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 The Subject
Example:

Did you make the grits, Travis?

Simple subject: you

Complete Subject: you

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 The Subject: Practice
Example:

A black wolf was baying at the moon.

Simple subject: wolf

Complete subject: A black wolf

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 The Predicate
The simple predicate, or verb, is the main word or word
group that tells something about the subject.

The complete predicate consists of a verb and all the words

that describe the verb and complete its meaning.

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 The Predicate
Example:

The ambulance raced out of the hospital driveway and down the street.

Simple predicate: raced

Complete predicate: raced out of the hospital driveway and down the
street

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 The Predicate
Example:

Are you following Mr. Silver´s advice?

Simple predicate: Are following

Complete predicate: Are following Mr. Silver´s advice

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 The predicate: Practice
Example:

Diego may have borrowed my book.

Simple predicate: may have borrowed

Complete predicate may have borrowed my book

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 Pair work
Let’s go to Quizizz!

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 Finding the Subject
To find the subject of a sentence, find the verb first. Then, ask
“who?” or “what?” before the verb.
Example:

Here you can swim year-round.

The verb is can swim.
Who can swim? You
You is the subject.

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 Finding the Subject
To find the subject of a sentence, find the verb first. Then, ask
“who?” or “what?” before the verb.
Example:

There is Aunt Ivory´s new truck.

What is there? Truck is.
Truck is the subject.

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 Finding the Subject
To find the subject of a sentence, find the verb first. Then, ask “who?” or
“what?” before the verb.
Example:

Please close the window.

Who is to close the window? You are. That is, the person spoken to.
You is the subject

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 Finding the Subject
To find the subject of a sentence, find the verb first. Then, ask
“who?” or “what?” before the verb.
Example:

The frog jumped into the pond.

What jumped? The frog jumped.
Frog is the subject.

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 Prepositional Phrases
The subject of a verb is never in a prepositional phrase.
Examples:

Most of the women voted in the past elections.

Who voted? Most voted.
Women is the object in the prepositional phrase of the women.
Most is the subject of the sentence.

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 Prepositional Phrases
The subject of a verb is never in a prepositional phrase.
Examples:

One of the parakeets in the pet shop looks like ours.

What looks? One looks.
Parakeets and pet shop are each part of a prepositional phrase.
One is the subject of the sentence.

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 Prepositional Phrases
The subject of a verb is never in a prepositional phrase.
Examples:

Are two of the books missing?

What are missing? Two are missing.

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 Sentences That Ask Questions
Questions often begin with a verb, a helping verb, or
interrogative pronouns such as what, where, when, how,
or why.

The subject of a question usually follows the verb or

helping verb.

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 Sentences That Asks Questions

How is the movie different from the book?

Where is the CD?

Does she have an apartment?

In questions that begin with a helping verb, like the third example
above, the subject comes between the helping verb and the main verb.

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Sentences Beginning with There or Here

The word there or here is almost never the subject of a

sentence. Both there and here may be used as adverbs
telling where. To find the subject in a sentence beginning
with there or here, ask “Who?” or “What?” before the
verb and the adverb.

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Sentences Beginning with There or Here
Examples:

There are my cousins.

Who are there? Cousins are

Here is your backpack.

What is here? Backpack is

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 Sentences Beginning with There or Here
Sometimes there starts a sentence but does not tell where. In
this use, there is not an adverb but an expletive. An expletive
is a word that fills out a sentence´s structure but does not add
to its meaning.

There are insects in our garden.

Expletive subjects prepositional phrase working as an adverb.

Insects are in our garden.

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 The Understood Subject
In a request or a command, the subject of a sentence is usually
not stated. In such sentences, you is the understood subject.
Examples:

Please answer the phone.

Listen carefully to his question.

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 Compound Subjects
A compound subject consists of two or more subjects
that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same
verb.

The conjunctions most commonly used to connect the

words of a compound subject are and and or.

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 Compound Subjects
Examples

Anthony and Maya baked the bread.

Anthony, Pamela, and Maya baked the bread.

Either Anthony or Maya baked the bread.

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 Compound Verbs
A compound verb consists of two or more verbs that are joined
by a conjunction and that have the same subject.
Examples:
1. Tony sings, acts, and dances in the show.
2. Richard entered the tournament and won first place.
3. Robert and Gary ran in the park and swam in the pool.

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