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*A sentence should have a subject and a verb. | *A sentence should have a subject and a verb. | ||
*The first word should always be a capital letter. | *The first word should always be a capital letter. | ||
* | *Sentence must end with a period, question mark or an exclamation point. | ||
* | *Sentence must be a complete thought. | ||
==Usage== | |||
===Subject and verb=== | |||
The subject is what or whom the sentence is about. The verb tells what the subject of the sentence does. It tells the action. | |||
:To determine the subject of a sentence, first isolate the verb and then make a question by placing who? or what? before it. The answer is the subject(Peck). | |||
===Capital letter=== | |||
A capital letter is placed at the begining of a sentence to show authority and to mark the begining. | |||
:We are starting class at one. | |||
===Punctuation=== | |||
*Periods are used to mark the end of a sentence expressing a statment (Darling). | |||
:It is a nice day today. | |||
*Question marks are used at the end of a direct question or to show that something is uncertain (Darling). | |||
:What time does the store close? | |||
*Exclamation points are used after an exclamation of surprise, shock or dismay, which is generally a short sentence or phrase expressing very strong feeling (Darling). | |||
:The pool part was great! | |||
===Complete thought=== | |||
A group of words must be capable of standing on its own to be considered a sentence. | |||
:She is going | |||
:She is going to work at four. | |||
==Works Cited== | |||
*Darling, Roger How to use punctuation. 22 Mar 2006. Online. 12 Jul 2006. | |||
<http://115170032534.webcitehome.co.uk/punctuation.html>. | |||
*Peck, Frances Subject and Predicate. 1994. Online. 12 Jul 2006. | |||
<http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammer/subjpred.html#subject>. | |||
*Hacker, Diana. ''A Writer's Reference.'' 5th Ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. | |||
*, Wikipedia Sentence Linguistics. 27 Jun 2006. Online. 12 Jul 2006. | |||
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=sentence_%28linguistics%29&oldid=60811791>. | |||