Literacy Lesson - 18/12/12

Types of Sentences
 

1.     A Simple Sentence:

·        Usually has a subject and a verb,  this is called a main clause

·        Must make sense by itself

Example with the subject (Who?) highlighted green and the verb (what doing?) highlighted yellow.

The tiger growled.

Similarly:

The huge fierce tiger growled loudly inside his small cramped cage.

 This is still a simple sentence with one main clause with the addition of:

·         4 adjectives (describe nouns) highlighted in pink

·         1 adverb (describe verbs, often end in -ly) highlighted grey

·         1 prepositional phrase telling, Where? The preposition is highlighted red. The prepositional phrase tells us where the tiger growled, inside his small cramped cage.