Basic Sentence Structure, Types, and End Marks

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Every sentence must include:

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a capital letter, an end mark, and a subject/predicate.

Answer explanation

Sentences must include all of these elements: a capital letter, an end mark, and a subject/predicate.

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Purpose of a command (IMPERATIVE):

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order

Answer explanation

A command orders someone to do something.

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Purpose of a statement (DECLARATIVE):

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tell

Answer explanation

Statements tell the reader something.

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Type of sentence that asks?

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a question (interrogative)

Answer explanation

A question asks something.

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Type of sentence that expresses strong feeling?

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Exclamatory

Answer explanation

An exclamation always ends with an exclamation point to signal to a reader that this sentence should be read with strong feeling.

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True statement about sentences:

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A sentence is a group of words that express a complete thought.

Answer explanation

A sentence is made up of words, and those words must express a complete thought (an idea that makes sense) when they are put together. In order for this to happen, there has to be BOTH a who/what (subject) AND a did/is what (predicate). A sentence is NOT a paragraph....several sentences grouped together create a paragraph.

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Identify the subject noun/pronoun in: The team won the game.

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team

Answer explanation

The sentence is about the TEAM. The TEAM is what won. That is why TEAM is the subject.

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Identify the PREDICATE verb: Today, Noah won a prize!

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won

Answer explanation

The predicate verb tells what the subject did, does, or will do. In this sentence Noah (the subject) WON (past tense verb). The word "prize" names the thing he won (so it's a noun).

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Identify the SUBJECT noun/pronoun in: On Saturday, I drove to the beach.

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I

Answer explanation

The predicate verb is drove. The subject noun tells who/what drove.....in this sentence "I" drove, so "I" is the subject pronoun.

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Identify the PREDICATE VERB in: Mackenzie and Delylah both baked cookies for us.

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baked

Answer explanation

The subject nouns in this sentence are Mackenzie and Delylah. The predicate verb (which in this sentence tells what they did) is baked (past tense verb.)