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unit 2
3. Sentences
A sentence is a group of words that states a complete thought.
• It begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark (., ?, !). Complete and Simple Subject
• As you saw in the previous unit, all sentences have two parts, a subject and a predicate.
• The subject of a sentence will tell us who or what the sentence is about, but sometimes we will use more than a single word to do so. This would be a complete subject.
• If you read the subject carefully, you will find that there is one noun which is the one all the words are describing, the most important word in the subject. If you take it away, the subject will not make sense. This would be the simple subject.
• You could also have only one noun or pronoun as a subject. In that case the simple subject and the complete subject are the same.
Examples:
complete subject
simple subject
complete subject
simple subject
were waiting for them.
rolled to her foot.
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About a dozen girls
A black and white ball