A. Describe a favorite activity. B. Who is the most interesting/ridiculous person I know? C. I admire ______________. (This person can be a peer or adult.) D. When I grow up… |
A first draft was due today. In class, students traded essays with a partner and marked spelling, capitalization, and punctuation errors.
We have also been learning about the compound sentence in our notes: Sentence Structure Part 1. Students will be able to identify the subject and predicate of each of their sentences in the first draft. They will also include three compound sentences in the essay.
Sentence Structure Part 1 Notes
Sentences are words put together to communicate ideas. Clear communication begins with a subject and predicate.
The subject is the WHAT or WHO, usually a noun or pronoun.
The predicate is the ACTION, usually a verb.
He smiles. WHO: He and ACTION: smiles
Teresa laughs. WHO: Teresa and ACTION: laughs
The combination of subject plus its predicate is called a clause. Sometimes you may have two clauses in one sentence. Ex: He smiles, and Teresa laughs.
Join clauses using conjunctions, like and, but, or etc.
This is called a compound sentence. The ideas are connected, but each subject/predicate combination could be its own sentence. Each clause in a compound sentence is independent.
BEWARE! Do not use more than two independent clauses in a sentence.
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