Sentence Construction
What Exactly Is a Sentence?Sentence construction. You use it every day. What exactly is a sentence? A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. In order to express a complete thought, every sentence must have two parts: 1. The subject (someone or something) 2. The predicate (what the someone or something is being or doing) That's it! A sentence is just someone or something being or doing something. Simple, huh?  Some groups of words may have only one of these two parts. When this happens, you are dealing with a sentence fragment. A sentence fragment is a group of words that does not express a complete thought. When you read a sentence fragment, you are left wondering whom or what the sentence is about or what happened in the sentence. You can change a sentence fragment into a complete sentence by adding the missing information. | Sentence Fragment | Sentence |
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| in the butter | My glasses fell in the butter! | | early this morning | I awoke early this morning. | | running across the field | I saw you running across the field |
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