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English Basics
Volume 4, Number 22, March 6, 2000
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Will the real sentence please stand up? How do you know that a group of words is really a sentence? A sentences expresses a complete thought.
Example: The girls wear pink hats.
This is a sentence. We know who the sentence is about and what they are doing.
Example: The girls who wear pink hats.
This is not a complete thought, so it is not a sentence. The phrase “who wear pink hats” only helps to identify who the words are about. When you read or hear, “The girls who wear pink hats,” it leaves you wondering, “What are those girls doing?” or, “What about those girls?”
Example: Are prettier than worms.
This is not a complete thought, so it is not a sentence. It leaves you asking, “Who or what are prettier than worms?”
This is a sentence:
They are prettier than worms.
Here’s another sentence:
The girls who wear pink hats are prettier than worms.
Write “S” after each sentence. Write “N” if the words do not make a real sentence. The first three have been done for you.
1.
Carrots in the lunch box. N
2.
Putting things back in the proper drawers. N
3.
I saw carrots in the lunch box. S
4.
Anthony’s favorite funny television show.
5.
I forgot my coat.
6.
When I’ll be able to drive a car?
7.
Can you drive a car?
8.
Paper plates that can be used in the microwave.
9.
Veronica’s choice of words offended her dog.
10. Hearing
voices that are not really there.
11. Chad
works very hard.
12. Winning
an important race.
13. Winning a
race is fun.
14. Loves her
friends no matter what.
15. Looking
like he’d seen a ghost!
16. Things
that creep in the shadows.
17. Never
farther than a phone call.
18. Cookies
that taste better than mud.
19. Apples
can be added to the recipe.
20. Place
your shoes on the blue mat.
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