Sentence Structure

What is the subject of a sentence?

• Who or What the sentence is about

• The person

• The action in the sentence

What is the subject?

Jane went to school.

• school

• went

• Jane

What is the verb/predicate of this sentence?

Matthew jumped off the steps

• Matthew

• jumped

• steps

If you just add a comma in between two sentences WITHOUT a conjunction, it's called a

• run-on

• Comma Splice

• Fragment

What is the subject in this sentence?

The desk was really heavy.

• heavy

• really

• desk

Because I went home

• Complete thought

• Incomplete thought

Three ways to fix a run-on sentence are:

• Add a comma

• Add a comma AND a conjunction

• semicolon

• Add a period and make it two sentences

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

After school tomorrow,

• Dependent

• Independent

• Comma Splice

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.6.4A

This is an independent or dependent clause?

I wish I had a million dollars.

• Independent

• Dependent

Steve runs towards

• Fragmane

• Complete