Lesson 1

Complete Sentences

Grade 4

What is a Complete sentence?

• A complete sentence is a sentence that is a complete thought

• All complete sentences have at minimum 3 things

What do all complete sentences have?

• Subject

• Verb

• Object

Subject

• The subject of the sentence is who the sentence is about

• The subject is a noun or a pronoun (ex. I, he, she)

• Examples of subject: Butterfly, King, Venus

Multiple Choice

Which one of these is an example of a subject

• John

• the

• run

• climb

Verb

• Verbs are action words

• Ex. (Sing, gallop, walk, climb)

• On the next slide fill the sentence in with a verb

Object

• The object of a sentence is the person or thing that receives the action of the verb. It is the who or what that the subject does something to.

• If we take the sentence "Terry carried out the trash" then trash is the object in the sentence"

If we take the sentence "I ate dinner" we can find all 3 necessary things of a complete sentence.

• I is the subject of the sentence, the subject is who the sentence is about

• ate is the verb in the sentence, a verb is an action word that the subject does

• dinner is the object in the sentence, the object is who or what the subject does something to

Multiple Choice

In the sentence "They played the drums." what is the object?

• They

• played

• the

• drums

Open Ended

Write your own complete sentence down below. Tell me what is the subject, verb, and object of your sentence.

More complex complete sentences

• We can create more complex complete sentences

• For example I could write: John was late to work.

• This sentence is not very complex and is very simple, so there are things we can do to make it more complex

Contd.

• Let's take out sentence "John was late for work"

• How can we make this more complex?

• Can we expand on this sentence any more?

• How about if we explained why John was late for work

• Instead of writing "John was late for work" we wrote something like "John was late for work because he woke up late."

Multiple Choice

Which of these sentences is complex?

• I ate dinner.

• I ran to the store.

• I was snippy with him because I was running late for work.

• The dog ran outside.

Open Ended

Try making this sentence complex. There is more than one answer so try your best.

I was tired ________________

What about when a sentence is not complete? What do we call that and what do we do?

• We have sentence fragments and run-on sentences

• In the future we will talk about what you need to do to correct those sentences

Poll

How do you feel about your ability to write complete sentences?

• Good

• So-so

• Bad