1. What makes a sentence?
What does a sentence need for it to be considered complete?
Consider the ingredients

2. Definition
A complete sentence has a subject, verb/predicate, and a complete thought. A lot of people just say a complete sentence needs a subject and verb/predicate, but that's not the case. Take this sentence, for example. ex.) Until I ran to the house. It doesn't have a complete thought, and therefore it's not a complete sentence; it's known as a dependent clause.

3. How does a writer start to build a sentence?
The easiest way is to begin with the subject and the predicate. They are the fundamental building blocks of a sentence, just as drywall and studs are for a house.
From there a writer may add words, phrases, and clauses to enhance the meaning.
Let’s look at and discuss some examples

4. The easiest is to use the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and WHY in a sentence
This helps to complete your thoughts
EXAMPLE:
A _______ bird flew ______ _________ _______.
what? how? where? Why?
A red bird flew quickly tinto the tree to escape.
I laughed ______ _________ __________.
how? when ? Where?
I laughed loudly yesterday at the circus.
The ____ policeman stopped _________ ___________________.
who Where? Why?
The nice policeman stopped by at the school to help the children.

5. The Bare Bones
What’s the bare-bones minimum needed to build a sentence? Find out in this BrainPOP movie, as Tim and Moby teach you all about subjects and predicates!
You’ll learn which part tells you what the sentence is about and
Which part tells you what is happening in the sentence.
Plus, figure out how to find the simple subject and simple predicate, and what role each of these word forms plays.
Subject and predicate: Working together to bring you sentences since the earliest days of the English language!

7. Define – Can you explain the terms you heard about in the mini movie clip?
SUBJECT:
PREDICATE:
SIMPLE SUBJECT:
SIMPLE PREDICATE:
VERB:

8. SUBJECT: Part of the sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about
PREDICATE: Part of the sentence that tells you something about the subject
What the subject is, what it likes, what it does
SIMPLE SUBJECT: Just the noun or pronoun
SIMPLE PREDICATE: Just the simple action (verb) : Moby fishes

9. Complete sentences 1. A sentence must have a subject
Complete sentences 1. A sentence must have a subject. The subject is what or who the sentence is about. 2. A complete sentence must have a verb. The verb tells what action the subject does If a group or words lacks either a subject or a verb, it is called a fragment.
Look at the groups or words below. Underline “SENTENCE” if the words make a complete sentence. Underline “FRAGMENT” if the word group is missing the subject or verb.
At the factory sentence fragment
The furnace stopped working sentence fragment
Cut her hair sentence fragment
Rain stopped intensity sentence fragment

10. YOUR HANDOUT YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES - WORK IN GROUPS
LOOK AT THE GROUPS OF WORDS. UNDERLINE “SENTENCE” IF THE WORDS ARE A COMPLETE SENTENCE OR UNDERLINE FRAGMENT IF THE WORD GROUP IS MISSING THE SUBJECT OR VERB.

11. ANSWERS AND DISCUSSIONS
1. In the class Fragment
2. drove her car Fragment
3. I took our dog for a walk Sentence
4. jim told me about his new video game Sentence
5. walked in the rain Sentence
6. before noon Fragment
7. we have baseball practice tomorrow Sentence
8. we watched the spider climb out of the bottle Sentence
9. the lamp is on the table Sentence

12. ANSWERS (CONTINUED) 10. the chair behind the desk Fragment
11. anne went to the park Sentence
12. jared is waiting for his ride home Sentence
13. in the way Fragment
14. before it will be Fragment
15 I know what happened Sentence
16 we are going on a five mile hike tomorrow Sentence
17 in the box Fragment
18 on the way home, it rained on us Sentence
19 to the school Fragment
20 jack is going to the game Sentence