Building Blocks of a Composition - Sentence

Question 1

What are the three components of a sentence?

Answer 1

1. Subject
2. Predicate
3. Complete thought

Question 2

This component makes up the sentence and is considered as the foundation.

Answer 2

Complete Thought

Question 3

What’s wrong with the following sentence?

When the transformer broke down.

Answer 3

The subject and predicate are present, but the idea/thought is incomplete.

Question 4

How do you achieve unity in a sentence?

Answer 4

1. Learn to express yourself in a complete sentence.
2. If the ideas do not belong together, separate them (to gain your second sentence).
3. Sentence unity may be destroyed by the inclusion of words, phrases, or clauses that have no direct bearing on the principal thought of the sentence.
4. Overloading details with obscurity destroys unity.
5. Avoid expressing in short, choppy sentences which can be expressed more precisely in one sentence.

Question 5

What are the two sentence patterns?

Answer 5

A. S - TV - DO (Subject, Transitive Verb, Direct Object)
B. S - TV - IO - DO (Subject, Transitive Verb, Indirect Object, Direct Object)

Question 6

What sentence pattern do the sentence below follow?

“Ira likes Lexie.”
“Bram ate lechon.”

Answer 6

S - TV - DO (Subject, Transitive Verb, Direct Object)