Unit 1: Sentences

A sentence

• expresses a complete thought.
• starts with a capital letter.
• ends with a stop sign.
• all of the above

A complete sentence must have

• a subject and a predicate.
• an expander.
• a connector.
• a cause and effect.

A run on sentence is a sentence...

• that has two complete sentences that run together.

• that does not have either a subject or a predicate.

I love to swim in the summer.

• Sentence

• Fragment

ate dinner last night.

• Sentence

• Fragment

Mrs. Gonsalves has two children.

• Sentence

• Fragment

live on a ranch.

• Sentence

• Fragment

Have you ever been to the ocean?

• Sentence

• Fragment

The mountains

• Sentence

• Fragment

I am excited for the weekend.

• Sentence

• Fragment