Sentences

Sentences

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Poll

Which one of these is a sentence?

• I want to buy all the cars from the store.

• There is and there are

• The cars red

• We live outside

• They are painting the walls with bright colors.

​Sentences

​Sentences must always start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. Sentences have a subject and a predicate. The subject tells us what or who the sentence is about. The predicate tells us what the subject is or does.

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​Example: The girl in the blue dress eats ice cream.

Try one more time!​

​Which one is a sentence?

Multiple Choice

Which one is a sentence?

• My baby sister loves to play Outside

• the car is parked outside

• My best friend went to Paris last summer.

• The baseball player trains four times a week

​More about sentences

​A sentence may have a compound subject or a compound predicate (x2).

A compound subject means that there is more than one subject in a sentence. Example: Dante and Piper are going to the party.

​A compound predicate means that there are two or more verbs for the same subject. Example: Marcel watched movies and ate dinner.

Open Ended

Write two sentences about things you do on the weekend. Write one sentence with a compound subject and one with a compound predicate.