Grammar Woot!

 A group of words that expresses a complete thought. What is a sentence fragment?  A group of words that does not express a complete thought

Example:Jumped on the bed.  Step 1: Does the group of words begin with a capital letter and end with an ending punctuation mark?  Yes: Jumped  Yes: There is a period after bed.  Step 2: Do the words express a complete thought?  No: They do not name the person or people who jumped on the bed.  The group of words is a fragment.

 Sentences begin with a capital letter.  Sentences end with a punctuation mark  Sentences express a complete thought.  Fragments have a missing part.  Fragments do not express a complete thought

 Do sentence/fragment exercises

 Subject: ◦ The part of the sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about ◦ Can be one word or many words  Predicate: ◦ The part of the sentence that tells something about the subject; it always contains a verb.  Verb: ◦ A word that shows action or a state of being.

 Do subject and predicate exercises  Do recognizing subjects exercises

 Answer the following questions in your journal (or on a separate piece of paper) ◦ If you could travel through time, where would you go? ◦ Which year or period of time would you travel to? ◦ Who would you want to meet or what event would you want to witness? ◦ Where would you find this person or see this event? ◦ Why would you want to meet this person or witness this event? ◦ How might you change history?