Sentences, Clauses, and Phrases

Question 1

A complete sentence must…

Answer 1

1. have a subject
2. have a predicate/verb/verb phrase
3. make sense on their own

Question 2

a sentence subject is

Answer 2

a noun or pronoun that tells who or what the sentence is about. You can find the subject by asking, Who or what is being discussed or doing the action?

Note: At times, it can be difficult to identify the subject of the sentence. This is especially true when prepositional phrases are after the subject.

In other situations, a noun or pronoun is used as an adjective for the subject.

Question 3

a predicate/verb/verb phrase

Answer 3

have a predicate/verb/verb phrase (these words are interchangeable) (this tells what the subject does or is or what happened to it. You can find the verb/verb phrase by asking What did the subject do?).

Question 4

A sentence must make sense….

Answer 4

make sense on their own (the group of words have to be complete and make sense. It’s possible for a sentence to have a subject and a predicate and not make sense.).