Wednesday, September 7
What is a "sentence"?
Review: Do you know what is considered a "sentence," and what isn't? We looked and some examples, and talked about why.
Take a look at these examples, and try to do the exercises. This will become important when you get feedback about your writing.
Take a look at these examples, and try to do the exercises. This will become important when you get feedback about your writing.
Here is some more practice with complete and incomplete sentences.
Can you make the incomplete sentences complete?
Can you make the incomplete sentences complete?
Topic and main idea.
It's important to understand the terms we use to talk about paragraphs. Today, we talked about "topic" and "main idea." The main idea is usually expressed in the "topic sentence." This is usually the first sentence of the paragraph.