Week 1

Question 1

What are the FOUR sentence purposes? (C2, W14)

Answer 1

The four sentence purposes are declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory.

Question 2

What are the four sentence structures? (C3, W23)

Answer 2

The four sentence structures are simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.

Question 3

What is the predicate of a sentence? (C3, W19)

Answer 3

The predicate of the sentence is that part which says something about the subject.

Question 4

What five rules must a sentence meet?

Answer 4

A complete sentence must have a subject, a verb, a capital letter, and an end mark and it must make complete sense.

Question 5

What are the SEVEN sentence patterns? (C3, W24)

Answer 5

Subject/verb intransitive
Subject/verb transitive/direct object
Subject/verb transitive/indirect object/direct object
Subject/Verb Linking/Predicate Nominative
Subject/Verb Linking/Predicate adjective
Subject/verb transitive/direct object/object Compliment noun
Subject/verb transitive/direct object/object Compliment adjective

Question 6

What is the subject of a sentence? (C3, W18)

Answer 6

The subject is that part about which something is being said.