Understanding the sentence

Understanding the sentence

1. What is a Sentence?

   • Group of words that state a complete thought
   • A sentence can consist of a single word

2. Other parts of speech

   • Prepositions
     • Express relationship between ideas
   • Adjectives
     • Information about nouns
   • Conjunctions
     • Link related parts of a sentence
   • Adverbs
     • Information about verbs
   • Interjections
     • Express emotion or feeling

3. Clauses

   • Independent clauses
     • Express a complete thought
   • Dependent clauses
     • Do not express a complete thought
   • Related words that contain a subject and a verb

4. Subject

   • Hidden subject
     • Inverted subject
       • Subject follows the verb
     • Possessive
       • Subject is the object of a possessive
   • Actor or main topic
     • Nouns
       • People
       • Places
       • Things
       • Ideas
     • Pronouns
       • Replace a noun
     • Gerund verbs

5. Verbs

   • Action verbs
     • Show what the subject is doing
   • Linking verbs
     • Conect the subject to related ideas
   • Helping verbs
     • Assist the main verb

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