Sentences

1. Sentences What they are and what they are not.

2. Independent Clause • What does independent mean? It does not rely on anything else. • What does clause mean? A group of words with a subject and a predicate. • What does it mean to put the two together? A subject and a predicate that is a complete thought by itself.

3. Let's slow that down • What is a subject? It is the noun that does something in the sentence. • What is a subject not? It does not mean the topic of the sentence. • What does predicate mean? It is the verb and the words that follow it. • What does it include? It will sometimes include phrases and dependent clauses.

4. What does a dependent clause look like? • When I'm in the kitchen...? • Since she went home...? • ?...because the dog ate the bologna sandwich

5. How can I combine these two? • When I go to the store, I like to buy apples. Notice the comma after the dependent clause. • Apples are good and so are oranges. • I buy apples because they smell triumphant.

6. Now that that has stewed… • Let’s add a phrase. • A phrase is like a clause but without either a verb or a noun. • The ones most often used in this class start with “that”. • In the Cub Pilot essay, the most common one went something like this, “In the short story ‘Cub Pilot on the Mississippi’. There were two characters.” • A phrase cannot stand on its own.

7. Your task is to write… • Eight sentences • 1 must be simple (one independent clause) • 3 must be compound (two independent clauses) • 3 must be complex (one independent clause + one phrase or one dependent clause) • 1 must be compound complex • All must contain either a day of the week or a month

8. And on the letter… • Underline independent clauses • Box dependent clauses • Highlight phrases