Sentence and Non-Sentence

What is the primary characteristic of a sentence?

• It always starts with a capital letter.

• It expresses a complete thought or idea.

• It ends with a punctuation mark.

• It contains only one word.

What makes a group of words a non-sentence?

• It is too short.

• It does not express a complete thought or idea.

• It always starts with a lowercase letter.

• It contains only verbs.

Which of the following is a rule for writing a sentence?

• It must be very long.

• It must contain at least five words.

• It must start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.

• It must describe an action.

Which of the following is a non-sentence?

• Stef loves reading books.

• Anthony goes to church every Sunday.

• the adorable child

• The children put the pebbles in the pail.

Which of the following is a sentence?

• playing happily

• the big bag

• too loud for my ears

• May drinks a glass of milk every morning.