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Understanding Sentences: Structure, Fragments, and Complete Thoughts

A sentence comprises two essential parts: a subject and a verb, forming a complete thought. Sentences can describe actions like jumping or flying, or states of being such as appearing or feeling. In contrast, a fragment lacks either a subject or a verb, resulting in an incomplete thought. Fragments can make writing seem careless or choppy unless used intentionally. Mastering simple sentences with subjects and verbs is crucial for clear communication. Practice spotting these elements for improved writing clarity and coherence.

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Understanding Sentences: Structure, Fragments, and Complete Thoughts

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  1. Sentences: What are they?

  2. Must have two parts! • Subject • person who does an action • thing that does action • person described in sentence • Thing described in sentence • Verb • Action: jump, scream, fly • State of being: appear, seem, feel

  3. Complete Thought! • A sentence must contain AT LEAST one subject AND one VERB, and it MUST form a complete thought.

  4. FRAGMENT • A FRAGMENT is missing a subject OR verb, and/ or it doesn’t contain a complete thought. • It may look like a sentence!!! • It may have a capital letter!!! • It may be punctuated!!!

  5. Why not fragments? • They make your writing appear sloppy! Unless you use them intentionally!!! • They make you look careless.Unless you use them intentionally!!! • They make your writing choppy and hard to understand. Unless you use them intentionally!!!

  6. How to spot them: • Must know a simple sentence • Simple sentences have a subject & a verb! • They can also have other words, phrases, & clauses… or not! • Who did something? What did they do?

  7. Practice • When I was five. I had a Chuckie doll. I would scare everybody with Chuckie. Chuckie was about two feet, had orange hair, little red and white shoes, overalls, and plastic knife. I replaced the plastic knife with a real knife. To make Chuckie look more like the real thing. From the kitchen drawer. Like a mini-butcher knife. I super-glued it to Chuckie’s hand. Ready for business.

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