Complete Sentences

Complete Sentences

​Complete Sentences

• ​A complete sentence has a subject & predicate:

  • ​In other words, it has a subject, verb, and complete thought.

• ​Synonyms:

  • ​Independent clause

  • ​Simple sentence

The fun way to remember:

​Complete sentence are "like" adults. They have matured like grown ups with everything they need to succeed in life (like a subject and a predicate.

Multiple Choice

Complete sentences need a _______ and _______.

• Subject and predicate

• sentence and incomplete

• fragment and run on

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What is a subject?

• the action a subject does

• who or what the sentence is about

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What is a predicate?

• who or what the sentence is about

• the action the subject does

Multiple Choice

Which is a complete sentence?

• My cat
• Has black fur
• He likes to play.
• In grass.

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Which is not a complete sentence?

• A bird the size of a house
• A big bird picked him up.
• It took him to its nest.
• The bird was hungry.

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Which is a complete sentence?

• A young princess.
• Saw a dragon.
• So.
• She fought it with a sword.

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What is the subject of this sentence?
A yellow crab lived in his pillow.

• yellow
• lived in his pillow
• crab
• his

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What is the action of this sentence?
The crab pinched him on the ear.

• The crab
• the ear
• him
• pinched

Multiple Choice

Decide if the sentence is complete or incomplete.

Fell in the pool.

• complete sentence

• incomplete sentence

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Decide if the sentence is complete or incomplete.

Found a five-dollar bill.

• complete sentence

• incomplete sentence

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Decide if the sentence is complete or incomplete.

Sharon and her mother.

• complete sentence

• incomplete sentence

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Decide if the sentence is complete or incomplete.

The puppy chewed on the shoe.

• complete sentence

• incomplete sentence

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Decide if the sentence is complete or incomplete.

The owl at the top of that tree.

• complete sentence

• incomplete sentence

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Decide if the sentence is complete or incomplete.

Sandy's Girl Scout troop went camping in the desert.

• complete sentence

• incomplete sentence

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Decide if the sentence is complete or incomplete.

Her soft blue mittens.

• complete sentence

• incomplete sentence