Sentences and Fragments

All sentences:

• Need a complete subject

• Need just a verb

• Need a subject and a predicate

• Don´t need to express a complete idea

I play with my friends every Friday.

• Interrogative

• Exclamatory

• Declarative affirmative

• Declarative negative

Stop and don´t come any closer!

• Declarative negative

• Interrogative

• Exclamatory

• Imperative

Because I really need it

• Declarative affirmative

• Sentence fragment

• Interrogative

• Declarative negative

A sentence fragment is similar to

• an interrogative sentence

• an exclamatory sentence

• an independent clause

• a dependent clause

Who were you expecting?

• Exclamatory sentence

• Interrogative sentence

• Imperative sentence

• Declarative negative

Active readers ask questions:

• Before and after reading

• During and after reading

• Only at the end

• Before, during and after reading

Questions after reading are used:

• to summarize and check comprehension

• to infer what is the information about

• we don´t do questions

• to make a connection

Articles should be:

• Interesting and engaging

• Long and boring

• Difficult to understand

• Tedious

Image caption

• Pulls out the most interesting parts of the article

• Gives information about the image

• Sentence that catches the reader´s attention

• Links the headline and the body of the text