A sentence has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  • I have a dog.
  • I don’t have a pet.
  • My book is red.
  • Her book is blue.
  • This is a cat.
  • That is a rainbow.

Sentences need to have a subject (who/what the sentence is about) and a predicate (what is happening in the sentence).

  • I have a dog. - ‘I’ is the subject and ‘have a dog’ is the predicate.

If the words don’t have this information then it is not a sentence.

  • The bus. (no predicate so we don’t know anything about the bus.)
  • Is over there. (no subject so we don’t know who or what is over there)

If we put the 2 pieces together we will get a true sentence.

  • The bus is over there.

This sentence has told us who or what (the bus) and the action (is over there) which means it is a sentence.

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Sentences can be long or short, interesting or boring, simple or complex.

When you write a sentence be sure to include a beginning, a middle, and an end so that everyone understands what you are saying.

Exercises

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