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Where the Red Fern
Grows
Lesson 1 -
Understanding
Sentences
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How can you tell a complete sentence
from an incomplete sentence?
Usually you tell just by listening.
Incomplete Sentence (Fragment)
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(What? Who does what everyday? I
don’t get it. This is not complete.)
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Incomplete Sentence (Fragment)
Every day, rain or shine.
(I don’t care about the weather! Tell
me who is doing what.)
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Complete Sentence
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(This is a very simple sentence, but it
has a subject [Billy] and a verb
[hunts]. We know what happened
and who did it.)
صفحه 5:
Complete Sentence
Billy hunts everyday.
(Here is the same sentence with a
little more information. There’s no
confusion here.)
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Complete Sentence
Billy hunts everyday, rain or shine.
(Here is the same sentence with even
more information, and it’s still very
clear.)
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A complete sentence must have a subject
and a predicate. The subject tells who or
what does the action, and the predicate
contains the verb and tells what the action
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A verb is a word that expresses one of two
things:
= Action: jump, scream, fly, run
= State of being: appear, seem, feel
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A subject can be any of the following things:
= The person who does the action in the
sentence. Grandpa sells goods in his general
store.
= The place that does the action in the
sentence. The general store swarms with
people before the Fourth of July celebration.
= The thing that does the action in the
sentence. Flour and sugar are mixed
together to make cookies.
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=" The person described in the sentence.
Grandpa is happy when he makes a
good sell.
= The place being described in the
sentence. The general store is
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= The thing being described in the
sentence. Cookies are best when the
flour and sugar are fresh.
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Subjects may come in different forms:
= One noun as the subject - Billy wants
hound dogs.
= Two nouns as a subject - Little Ann and
Old Dan are two dogs.
= One pronoun as the subject - He prays
each night for dogs.
= Two pronouns as the subject - He and she
are both still awake because of the coon
hounds.
= A phrase - Staying awake all night is no
fun.
= A clause - What makes me mad is all the
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when he gets the money
(This has a subject [he] and a verb
[gets], but you’re left dangling,
aren’t you? It’s not a complete
sentence. This is called a dependent
clause. It depends on something else
to make a complete sentence.
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Complete Sentence
Billy will buy coon hounds when he
gets the money.
(Now we know what’s going on!)
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Determine if the following are
تخل ای sentences or
clauses. | الكت اناك
When I left my office that beautiful .1
spring day.
2. I was walking along whistling when
I heard the dogfight.
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caught him and down he went.
4. Down on my knees.
5. With one final whimper.
6. Where the alley emptied into the
street, he stopped and looked back.
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7. As I watch him disappear in the
twilight shadows.
8. Whatever it was that had interrupted
his life, he was trying to straighten it
out.
9. As I turned to enter my yard.
io. As I caressed the smooth surfaces, my
mind drifted back through the years,
back to my boyhood days.
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Phrase
the sound of the hounds
(We just saw that a clause has a
subject and a verb. There’s no verb
here; this is called a phrase. It could
be the start of a great sentence, but
it needs some help. It needs some
action.)
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Complete Sentence
The sound of the hounds echoed in
Billy’s mind even after the night
quieted.
(Now there’s some action! It makes a
very clear, complete sentence.)
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Tell which part of the sentence
(subject or predicate) is missing in
the sentence fragments below:
A whole bucketful of tears.
My dog-wanting.
Bawling and yelling for Mama.
Had a talk with him.
Se
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Let’s build a few sentences.
Phrase
young Billy
Dependent Clause
by the time hunting season was over
Complete Sentence
By the time hunting season was over,
young Billy was a nervous wreck.
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Phrase
our cat Samie
Dependent Clause
with one loud squall
Complete Sentence
With one loud squall, our cat Samie
scooted under the barn.
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Phrase
the glow of the fire
Dependent Clause
as I sat there in silence
Complete Sentence
As I sat there in silence, the glow of
the fire grew larger.
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Phrase
sparkled like a white star in the heavens
Dependent Clause
as I struck a match
Complete Sentence
As I struck a match, the smaller cup
sparkled like a white star in the
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صفحه 22:
Video on Sentence
Fragments
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Brain Pop
http://www.brainpop.com/english/gra
mmar/sentencefragments/
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Practice - Complete
Sentence or Sentence
Fragment?
. I found some slick little trails out in the
garden down under some tall
hollyhocks.
. Once I decided to make friends with
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3. Thinking they were game trails.
. Mama had another talk with Papa.
صفحه 25:
Go to your Student Packet and
complete Lesson 1 Practice
for English.
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