Simple Sentences

Simple Sentences

Learning Target

I can produce and understand simple sentences.

Terms we need to know!

•Subject

•Verb

•Clause (a group of words with a subject and a verb)

independent-strong stands alone

dependent-subordinate-weak needs support

What is a simple sentence?

A simple sentence has one independent clause and no dependent clauses

Example: The student yawned.

Multiple Choice

What is a verb?

• Action word

• person, place, or thing

Multiple Choice

What is the subject of this sentence? James and his friends went to the store and had a good time.

• James and his friends.

• went to the store and had a good time

Although a simple sentence cannot have a dependent clause, it can have modifiers:

• First, we need to define modifiers. Modifiers are words that give more information or details about another word or words in the same sentence.

• Example: The tall student sitting in the back in my algebra class yawned loudly

• The basic sentence is ‘The student yawned’. The other words are modifiers - they are descriptive words.

A simple sentence contains only one independent clause, but it can have more than one subject or verb

• Example: Sadie and her friend yawned loudly. (even though its more than one person in the subject it's still a simple sentence!)

• Sadie yawned loudly and went to sleep. (this sentence has two verbs but it is still a simple sentence!

A sentence with all these elements will be long, but it is still simple because it contains only one independent clause

• Example: The tall student sitting in the back in my physics class and his friend yawned loudly and fell asleep ( this is still a simple sentence. The base of this sentence is "The student and his friend yawned and fell asleep". The rest of the words are modifiers or add details to the sentence. )

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Beware of fragments

• Sentence fragments are incomplete sentences that don't contain a complete thought. When you read these sentences you are confused because they DO NOT make sense!

• Example: James outside. ( does this sentence make sense? what is this sentence missing?)

Lets practice!

Multiple Select

Which one is a simple sentence?

• We outside and played.

• Jacob and David went outside and played outside together.

• jacob that boy over there see what i mean.

• My mom dad sister and brother.

Multiple Choice

Which one is a simple sentence?

• Jessica and her mom went to the store.

• Jessica the girl, her mom, and her sister, and her dad too.

Multiple Choice

What IS NOT in a simple sentence?

• A capital letter and punctuation.

• independent clause

• fragments