Sentence Terminology

A complete sentence requires which of the following two things?

• Fragment & Run-On

• Complete Subject & Complete Predicate

• Subject & Predicate

• Subject & Fragment

The SUBJECT of a sentence is...

• the most important word in a sentence

• who or what the sentence is about

• the person

• the action

The PREDICATE of a sentence is...

• the action or state of the subject

• the person or thing doing the action

• the bigger part of the sentence

• the main idea of the sentence

What is another word for an incomplete sentence, or a sentence which does not include a complete thought?

• Simple subject & predicate

• Comma splice

• Run-on setence

• Sentence fragment

What is a RUN-ON sentence?

• A sentence that contains an incomplete thought

• A sentence with too many subjects

• A sentence with two or more complete thoughts strung together

• A sentence that is at least a paragraph or longer

A COMMA SPLICE occurs when two sentence are joined with a comma but missing a(n)...

• Conjunction

• Punctuation

• Subject

• Predicate

"After they finished dinner." - This is an example of a(n)...

• Sentence fragment

• Run-on sentence

• Comma splice

• Simple predicate

"Where she was sightseeing last summer." - This is an example of a(n)...

• Run-on sentence

• Complete subject

• Sentence fragment

• Complete predicate

"The weather is beautiful, it is a perfect day for gardening." - This is an example of a(n)...

• Run-on sentence

• Comma splice

• Incomplete sentence

• Sentence fragment

"The dog's bed in the corner." - This sentence is missing a(n)...

• Subject

• Predicate

• Subject & predicate

• Comma