Complete Sentences: Subject and Predicate

Lesson Plan - Get It!

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• Were you able to identify the fruit pictured above?
• Did you guess that it was an apple?

If you were a small child and saw that picture, you might not know that it was an apple. Someone much younger, who had never seen the inside of an apple, might not have been able to identify it.

Something would be missing for them. They would need to see the outside of the apple in order to identify it.

In much the same way, when you write, you need to write in complete sentences. If you do not write using complete sentences, the reader will not understand what you are trying to convey.

A complete sentence is a group of words that forms a complete thought.

It also must have a subject and a predicate.

In order to understand these terms more, watch the video below. Take out a piece of paper and pencil and, while you're watching, write the definitions for complete sentence, subject, and predicate.

Subjects and Predicates | Subject and Predicate | Complete Sentences | Award Winning Teaching Video from GrammarSongs by Melissa:

Remember, to be a complete sentence, the words you use must form a complete thought.

So even though "I want" has a subject "I" and a predicate "want," it does not form a complete thought. It leaves you wondering what is wanted.

Continue to the Got It! section to practice identifying complete sentences.