Proficiency in Sentence Writing

Requirements of a Complete Sentence

• Have a capital letter, Be long, have something at the end, talk about something

• Start with a capital letter

  Have ending punctuation ( ! , . ? )

  Have a subject ( S )

  Have a verb ( V )

  Make sense

This type of sentence has one independent clause

• simple sentence

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

• compound-complex sentence

This who or what the sentence is about

• Verb

• Subject

names the person, place, thing, quality, or idea the sentence is about

• Subject

• Verb

Tells the action or state of being of the subject

• Subject

• Verb

The one word that names what the sentence is about is called

• Simple Predicate

• Simple Subject or Main subject

This includes the main verb and any helping verbs

• Complete Subject

• Complete Verb

The subject of a sentence can be found

• before the verb

• after the verb

• between the helping and main verbs

• all of the above

What is the formula for the following sentence: The dogs and cats ran in circles.

• SV

• SSV

• SVV

• SSVV

What is the subject of the following sentence: Here are the shoes.

• here

• are

• shoes