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30 Cards in this Set
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What is a sentence?
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A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought and contains a subject and a predicate.
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What is a subject?
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A subject is what a / the sentence is about.
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What is a predicate?
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A predicate tells something about the subject.
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What is the subject and/or predicate in this sentence, "Your allowance for this week."
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Allowance is the Subject.
This sentence does not have a predicate |
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Define Sentence Fragments
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Sentence without a subject or a predicate
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What does not make sense in a sentence?
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Fragments
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What needs 2 parts of speech?
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A sentence
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What does a person, place, thing or idea (a naming part) is in a sentence?
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Subject
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What the sentence need to have a complete sentence?
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Predicate
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What must express a complete, understandable thought to form a grammatical sentence?
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The Subject & Predicate
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What is called the Simple Subject?
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The noun or pronoun
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What is called a Complete Subject?
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Noun or Pronoun plus any word that describes or expands it
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How do you find the Simple Subject in a sentence?
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By asking What or whom is the sentence about
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What is the Simple Subject in this sentence? "My closet friend plans to retire to England"
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Friend
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Define Simple Predicate
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Sentence is always a verb or verb phrase also called Predicate Verb
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Define a Complete Predicate
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a sentence contains the verb or verb phrase and all its modifiers
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How do you find the predicate?
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By asking "What's being said about the subject?" or "What did the subject do?" or "What happened?"
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What is the Subject or Predicate in this sentence, "My closest friend plans to retire to England."
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Subject - Friend
Predicate - Plans to retire to England |
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What is the Simple Predicate or Predicate Verb in this sentence, "My closet friend plans to retire to England."
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Plans - Only verbs can be simple predicates, and in this group of words there is only one.
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What is the Complete Subject in this sentence, "My brother Roger baked a cake last night."
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My Brother Roger
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What is the Simple Subject in this sentence, My brother Roger baked a cake last night."
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Roger
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What is the Complete Predicate in this sentence, "My brother Roger baked a cake last night."
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Baked a cake last night
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What is the Predicate Verb in this sentence, "My brother Roger baked a cake last night."
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Baked
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What is the Complete Subject in this sentence, "During the rock concert, an amplifier exploded on stage."
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Exploded on stage during the rock concert
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What is the Simple Predicate in this sentence "During the rock concert an amplifier exploded on stage."
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Exploded
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What is the Complete Subject in this sentence, "During the rock concert an amplifier exploded on stage."
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Amplifer
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What is the Simple Subject in this sentence, "During the rock concert an amplifier exploded on stage."
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Amplifier
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Define Compound
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More than one
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Define Compound Subject
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A subject having more than one noun or pronoun
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What are the nouns and subjects in this sentence, "The rain and lightning made travel difficult."
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Rain and Lightning are the nouns as well as the subjects in this sentence.
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