1. Sentences
Professor Danielsen

2. What is a sentence?
What are in the main parts of a sentence?

3. What is a sentence?
A sentence is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb.
A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, exclamation mark, or question mark.
Example:
He is a college student.
It is hot today.
He looks mad.

4. Common Errors There is no verb. The thought is not complete.
There is no subject.
Example: Is very trustworthy.
There is no verb.
The teacher strict.
The thought is not complete.
When I finish my education.

5. Practice
Work with a partner to decide if a group of words is a sentence or not a sentence:
My new classmate from Brazil.
He speaks three languages fluently.
Is very competitive.
He isn’t married.
The books expensive.
Go to the course website.

6. Subject – Verb - Object
The subject tells who or what the sentence is about. It can be:
a noun (Diego, college, students)
a noun phrase (the cat)
a subject pronoun (I, you, he, she, it, we, they)
others (gerunds)

7. Subject – Verb - Object Verbs(two types): Action verbs name an action
lose, chase, speak, live, go
Linking verbs
connect the subject of the sentence to information about the subject.
She is a doctor.
I feel lucky today.
The air smells fresh and clean.

8. Subject – Verb - Object
Object: receives the action of certain action verbs.
can be a noun, noun phrase, object pronoun (me, you, him, her, it, us, them)
Trick to finding the object:
Make a question by putting who(m) or what after an action verb.
Mark lost his keys.
(Lost what? – his keys!)

9. Independent Clause
An Independent clause has at least one subject and one verb.

10. Dependent Clause
Cannot stand alone because it is not a complete thought. It needs to be connected to a independent clause to become a sentence.
Subordinator

11. Practice 9 p. 89 Look at each sentence:
Decide whether it is a independent clause or a dependent clause.

12. Capitalization There are six important rules for capitalization.
the first word in a sentence:
My neighbor is a mechanic.
the pronoun I
My friends and I often study together.
names of people and their titles
President Lincoln
Professor Patrick Jones
King James

13. Capitalization nationalities, languages, religions, and ethnic groups
English
Spanish
Native American
Farsi
names of languages or nationalities that are the name or part of the name of a school subject, and names of schools courses with numbers
Russian
Physics 101
specific places you can find on a map
New York City
the Amazon River

14. Simple - Types of sentences
A simple sentence has one subject-verb pair.
A simple sentence may have a compound subject or verb:
Compound subject:
My brother and I are completely different.
Compound verb:
They laughed and cried at the same time.

15. Connecting Words: And and Or
also called “conjunctions”
These connect words or groups of words in a sentence

16. And joins two or more similar things in affirmative sentences:
I like Chinese and Italian food.

17. Or Or connects two or more similar things in negative sentences
I don’t like warm milk or cold coffee.
Or also connects two or more choices or alternatives
I would like to go to London, Rome, or Paris on my next vacation.

18. Practice – Let’s do these together.
Example:
I can speak and understand English.
I can’t speak Tagalog _______ Vietnamese.
My mother is proud of my sister ________ me.
My uncle, a talented artist, paints _______ makes sculptures.

19. Compound
FANBOYS
Two ICs joined with a Coordinating conjunction

20. Sentence Combining
You can use conjunctions to combine short sentences into longer ones.
Here are four general principles to follow for combining sentences:
Whenever possible, don’t repeat words.
Add a connecting word like and when necessary.
Change words when necessary.
When you omit words, don’t leave out words that provide important information.

21. Complex Sentences At least one IC and one DC.
Even though I like pizza, it makes me fat.