RULES AND EXAMPLES TO HELP YOU MAKE SIMPLE SENTENCES

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To make a sentence you need three things:

A sentence is a group of words that makes sense on its own.

Cheese, car, house, table on Tuesday.

This isn’t sentence – it doesn’t make sense.

I park my car next to my house.

This is a sentence. You can understand what it means.

When you are writing you need to use the right sentence punctuation.

Using punctuation will show the person who is reading your writing where the sentences beginning and end.

A sentence must begin with capital letter.

A sentence must end with a full-stop (.), a question mark (?), or an exclamation mark (!).

BEWARE !! sometimes people confuse the punctuation to use the end of a sentence. You can use commas (,), colons (:), or semicolon (;) in your writing, but they should never be used instead of a full-stop.

A sentence also needs two kinds of words in it.

A sentence must have a VERB (a doing word).

e.g. like, is, cooking, walked, need.

A sentence must also have a SUBJECT. This is the person, or the thing, that is doing the verb.

e.g. I, Beppe, Tuesday, you, table, the weather,.

Here are some examples of sentences that show you the VERBS and the SUBJECT:

Last week Peggy redecorated the pub.

Are you hungry yet?

Martin, be quiet.

Tuesday was very rainy and cold.

Other thing to know about sentences:

Sentences can be very short, or very long. There is no correct number of words that should be in a sentence. The length of the sentence depends on what you want to say and the effect you want to get.

BEWARE !! if your sentences go on for many lines, make sure that you haven’t really put several sentences together as one sentence.

It’s important to remember that you don’t always need to write in sentences. For example, a shopping list doesn’t need sentences, but a job description does.