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Let’s develop those skills!\nCHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS A SENTENCE?\nWhat is a sentence?\nYou have probably heard various explanations, for instance:\nA sentence is a complete thought.\nFor our purposes here, we will use a very simple definition of what a sentence is:\nA sentence has a subject and a verb.\nKate talked.\nThe mother walked.\nThe verb is the word that shows action, although some verbs, like are, be, was, were, seemed etc. don’t seem very active.   The verb is also the word that changes with the time.\nKate talks.\nKate will talk.\nKate talked.\nOnce you have identified the verb, you can identify the subject.   The subject is the thing that does the action of the verb.\nWho talked?  Kate talked.  Kate is the subject.\nVerbs can be two or even three words:\nKate had been talking for 3 hours.\nAnd the verb can have words in between:\nKate had really been talking a lot.\nYou can also have a compound subject:\nKate and Mark talked.\n\u000f\nCHAPTER TWO: COMMANDS\nOne more thing.  There is ONE exception to the rule about what a sentence is (What’s that rule?  A sentence has a subject and a verb.) The exception?  Commands\nWhat are commands?\nCommands are sentences like the following:\nStop.\nGo.\nStop talking!\nPlease stop talking.\nWhere is the subject in a sentence like “Please stop talking?”\nIt may seem strange, but every single command has the same subject (Wow—how is that even possible?)\nWell, since commands are always speaking to someone or something, the subject is always you.\nYou may have noticed that the word “you” is not even in a command.  Because of this, the subject is actually called you understood, and it is written like this: (you)\nThis means that the subject is the word you, but since you is not written or spoken in the sentence, it is simply understood.\nThe subject in each of these sentences is \"you,\" but it doesn't sound correct to use the subject.\n* You stop talking, please.\n* You shut the door.\n* You be there at 5:00.\nThe polite form of a command uses the word \"please.\"\n* Please give that to me.\n* Pass the potatoes, please.\nSometimes a command may begin with a person’s name:\nGrandma, be there at 5:00.\nKate, please stop talking.\nDon’t be fooled-it’s still a command!\nTest Yourself.\nIn the sentences below, which is a command?\nIt’s possible to enjoy yourself even on a seemingly boring day if you read.\nPeople who don’t have money to buy books can still enjoy reading.\nGo to the library and get a library card.\nThen you will be able to read as many books as you want!\n\u000f\n\u000f\nCHAPTER THREE: EXPANDING SENTENCES\nwith ADJECTIVES & LISTS\nWhen you understand what a sentence is, you can start to play with sentences.  For instance, with the “seed” sentence…\nKate talked.\n…You can expand the sentence in all sorts of ways:\nFor instance: Add adjectives\nWait, what are adjectives?\nAdjectives are words that describe nouns (and what’s a noun?  Oh yeah,  a person place or thing).  Examples of adjectives:  tall, short, happy, funny, brown, blue, well-built, talkative….\nYou can expand a sentence using adjectives in all sorts of ways:\nKate was a talkative, outgoing person with a lot to say.\nHere we come to an important rule about commas:\nWhen two adjectives are in a row, put a comma between them:\nKate was a talkative, outgoing person with a lot to say.\nYou don’t have to stop at TWO adjectives.  You can add as many adjectives as you want:\nKate was a talkative, outgoing, and annoying person who never shut her mouth.\nNOTE the commas!\nKate was a talkative, outgoing, annoying, pedantic, and boring person who never shut her mouth.\nWhile we are on the subject of commas, here is another thing to know about commas and the TASC test:\nThe makers of the TASC like you to put a comma between items in a list, including before the “and”:\nKate was a talkative, outgoing, annoying, pedantic, and boring person.\nThis rule, about commas and and, does NOT ju","cbCaieZf3NBVSAlE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieZf3NBVSAlE","docx",297203,64,"English","# Chapter One: What Is A Sentence?\n## What is a sentence?\n## Subject and verb\n# Chapter Two: COMMANDS\n## Commands and the understood subject\n## Polite commands with “please”\n# Chapter Three: EXPANDING SENTENCES\n## Expanding with adjectives\n## Commas between adjectives\n## Commas and lists\n# Chapter Four: EXPANDING SENTENCES USING PHRASES","[{\"question\":\"What is the basic definition of a sentence in this guide?\",\"answer\":\"A sentence has a subject and a verb. 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