Lesson 12 — Activity 2: Writing a Complete Sentence
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Lesson 12 — Activity 2:
Writing a Complete Sentence
You know what the parts of speech are, so in this activity, you will review some of the ways that you can create interesting and effective sentences using that knowledge.
A complete sentence expresses a complete idea. To do that, you need to have at least a noun and a verb. That is, you need to have someone (or something) do something.
The part of the sentence that has the noun is the subject; the part of the sentence that has the verb is the predicate.
A complete sentence expresses a complete idea. To do that, you need to have at least a noun and a verb. That is, you need to have someone (or something) do something.
The part of the sentence that has the noun is the subject; the part of the sentence that has the verb is the predicate.
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Consider this example:
Fernando skates.
Fernando is the subject (a noun — a name) and skates is the predicate (a verb — an action). The sentence tells us very little, but it makes sense.
If you only had one part or the other, you would not have a complete idea, so you would not have a sentence. Of course, it would be boring to read or speak in such simple sentences all the time, but you can use your knowledge of the parts of speech to
make your sentences more interesting. Consider these examples:
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Add an adjective — Talented Fernando skates.
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Add an adverb — Talented Fernando skates quickly.
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Add a preposition — Talented Fernando skates quickly along the boards.
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Use a conjunction to add another idea — Talented Fernando skates quickly along the boards and cuts to the net.
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There are many ways that you can combine the parts of speech to make your sentences more interesting, but you need to be sure that every sentence expresses a complete idea with its subject and predicate.
In the next activity, you will look at various types of sentence structures.