1. Grammar 2 Sentence: a grammatically complete group of words that express thought. A sentence usually tells you 2 things: the person, animal, or thing that the sentence is about. what the person, animal, or thing does or is.

2. Sentence fragment: group of words that is not grammatically complete. They may look like a sentences because they start with a capital letter and end with an end punctuation mark, but don’t let that fool you. Example: Fragment: Sketched the lions. Who sketched the lions? Fragment: Jerri and I. Jerri and I sketched the lions. Fragment: While Jerri and I sketched the lions. (Incomplete thought) While Jerri and I sketched the lions, they slept.

3. A sentence always has one of four purposes: 1.Decstatement larative sentences: Make a and end with a period. The parade starts at three o’clock. To explain the broken lamp, we told Moma lie.

4. 2. Imperative sentences: Make a command or a request. They end with either a period or (if the command shows strong feeling) an exclamation point. Come to the parade with us. Hurry up, you guys!

5. 3. Interrogative sentences: ask a question. They end with a question mark. Isn’t that elephant heading strait toward us?

6. 4. Exclamatory sentences: express strong feeling. They end with an exclamation point. Oh, the elephant is loose!

7. Direct object: is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of and action verb. A direct object answers the question whom or what is following the verb. Jenny takes advanced algebra. (Takes-what?- algebra.) Rob tested the twins in math. (Tested-whom?-the twins.)

8. Indirect objects: is a noun or pronoun that answers the question to whom or for whom or to what or for what following an action verb. Indirect objects never stand alone. You can have a D.O. without an I.O., but you can’t have an I.O. without a D.O. The I.O. always comes before the D.O. The mother gives them piano lessons. Please Jim the answer.

9. So that Darren would have company at the party, Sammy and Maria brought him a blind date Jim built his granddaughter a sandcastle on the beach. Jim built a sandcastle on the beach. To explain the broken lamp, we told Mom a lie.

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12. A preposition sits in front of (is “pre-positioned” before) its object.