1. Which ones are Really Sentences?
Matt’s house.
He sprung.
They race.
Sneezed loudly.
Silly Maria.
Blood flew.
Matt winces.
Maria flinched.
Sprang suddenly.
Favorite food.

2. The Sentence Test Who or what did or is something?
What did they do or what are they?

3. How can we shorten these sentences?
“The lights cluster brilliantly up the street at Claudia’s house.”
(Jerry Spinelli, Loser)
“I solemnly swear I am up to no good.”
(J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
“So a few minutes later, after unpacking his suitcase and washing his hands, he trotted downstairs to the ground floor and entered the living room.”
(Roald Dahl, “The Landlady”)
“And then one spring day on the way to school Zinkoff sees a cluster of licorice spit marks on a sidewalk…”
(Jerry Spinelli, Loser, Pg. 133)