1. Master sentence essentials for clear meaning and effective writing.
SENTENCE SENSE
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Master sentence essentials for clear meaning and effective writing.

2. complete subject + complete predicate = complete sentence
The hijacked plane / has landed safely.
Sandra / gave us three magnolia trees.
These trees / should have been planted in April.
The tomato / is a fruit. It / tastes good in salads.

3. Expanding Sentences
The plane / has landed. The hijacked plane / has landed safely. The first hijacked plane to arrive at this airport / has landed safely in the south runway. The first hijacked plane to arrive at this airport since the attack began / has landed safely in the south runway, which has been closed to traffic for a year.

4. Expand the following sentences:
The movie / is over. Jason / eats fish. The ball / needs air.

5. Combining Sentences
How many ways can you arrange these two sentences into one sentence? The saying is old. It has a new meaning.

6. The saying is old, but it has new meaning
The saying is old, but it has new meaning. Although it has a new meaning, the saying is old. The saying, which is old, has a new meaning. The old saying has new meaning. It is an old saying with a new meaning.

7. We sat by the pool and waited.
1. VERBS Verbs are words that express action, occurrence, or existence (a state of being).
Play ball!
The rain stopped.
Am I right?
Verbs can be compound:
We sat by the pool and waited.

8. 2. AUXILIARY VERBS A verb may consist of two or more words to create a “verb phrase.” Verb phrases are made up of auxiliary verbs + main verb.
Tom has moved.
He is moving.
They have taken the tests.
We had been taking lessons.
(Auxiliaries: have, has, had, is , are , was, were, be, been, do, does, did, will, shall, can, may, must, would, should, could, might)

9. 3. VERBS with PARTICLES Many verbs are used with particles like away, across, in , off, on, down, for, and out.
She called on me.
Gina handed in her report.
Gina handed her report in.

10. 4. SUBJECTS To find the subject of a sentence, find the verb and ask who or what. The answer is the subject.
The dog in the cage ate.
Verb: ate
WHO or WHAT ate? The dog.
Subject: dog
Subjects can be compound:
Cobras and pythons lay eggs.

11. 5. SUBJECT FORMS
Nouns (words used to name persons, places, things, ideas, and so on) and pronouns (it, he, they, etc.) are frequently used as subjects. Suffixes like –ance, -ation, - ence, - ment, -ness, and –ship frequently indicate a word is a noun: appearance, determination, reference, atonement, boldness, hardship. The articles a, an, and the signal that a noun is to follow: a chair, an activity, the race.

12. 6. Position: SUBJECT - VERB
They disappeared.
The youngest boy did not smile very often.
Sometimes reversed:
Over the door were sprigs of mistletoe.

13. Was the statement true? Did these people survive? [auxiliary split]
7. Exception: QUESTIONS
Was the statement true?
Did these people survive? [auxiliary split]

14. 8. Underline the verbs (including auxiliaries and particles) and their subjects:
1. Lasting friendships develop. 2. Secrecy was another problem. 3. Roger constantly courts trouble with his comments. 4. Answers to questions may never be found. 5. Are vitamins important for sudden bursts of energy? 6. Gnats and small flies invade the sheath and pollinate the blossoms.