What is a sentence for kids
Sentence Facts for Kids
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A sentence is a group of words that are put together to mean something. A sentence is the basic unit of language which expresses a complete thought. It does this by following the grammatical rules of syntax.
A complete sentence has at least a subject and a main verb to state (declare) a complete thought. Short example: Walker walks. A subject is the noun that is doing the main verb. The main verb is the verb that the subject is doing. In English and many other languages, the first word of a written sentence has a capital letter. At the end of the sentence there is a full stop or full point (American: 'period').
Contents
- Phrases and clauses
- Types of sentence
- Basic English sentences
- Related pages
Phrases and clauses
A phrase or clause is part of a sentence. Above, the words 'at the end of the sentence' is a phrase; 'is' is a verb, and 'there' is an expletive. The subject of the sentence is "a full stop or full point (American: 'period')."
This is an example of a sentence:
- The dog is happy.
In this sentence, 'The dog' is the subject, and 'is' is the verb.
This is an example of a phrase:
- The happy dog
There is no verb, so we do not know anything about what the happy dog is doing. It is not a sentence.
A clause is a sentence within a sentence. Example:
- They milked the cows, and then they made cheese and butter. This sentence has two co-ordinate (~equal) clauses, linked by 'and'.
Types of sentence
- A simple sentence has only one clause. The cat is sleeping.
- A compound sentence has two or more clauses. These clauses are joined together with conjunctions, punctuation, or both. The dog is happy, but the cat is sad.
- A complex sentence has one clause with a relative clause. The dog, which is eating the bone, is happy.
- A complex-compound sentence (or compound-complex sentence) has many clauses, at least one of which is a relative clause: The dog, which is eating the bone, is happy, but the cat is sad.
Sentences have different purposes:
- A declarative sentence, or declaration, is the most common type of sentence. It tells something. It ends with a full stop . (The dog is happy.)
- An interrogative sentence, or question, asks something. It ends with a question mark ? (Is the dog happy?)
- An exclamatory sentence, or exclamation, says something out of the ordinary. It ends with an exclamation mark ! (That dog is the happiest dog I have ever seen!)
- An imperative sentence, or command, tells someone to do something. (Give the dog a bone.)
Basic English sentences
Here are some sentences written in Basic English:
The sky is blue.
Today is Monday.
Tomorrow is Tuesday.
The baby is smiling.
This is the road to take.
Read a book about the history of America.
There are beautiful flowers growing in the garden.
The cushions are new and I can experience the comfort well.
Related pages
- Phrase
- Punctuation
- Word
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What is sentence level work?
Sentence level work is everything your child will be taught about grammar, text content and punctuation in the primary-school classroom. We offer some examples of activities to help them practise and improve their writing at home.
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What is a sentence?
A sentence is one word or a group of words that makes sense by itself (a grammatical unit).
Sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation point.
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There are four types of sentence: statements, commands, questions and exclamations.
What is sentence level?
Teachers focus on three areas in literacy: word level work, sentence level work and text level work.
Word level relates to the spelling of individual words.
Sentence level relates to grammar, content and punctuation.
Text level relates to the structuring of a text as a whole, for example: writing a beginning, a middle and an end for a story, using paragraphs, remembering an introduction for a report, etc.
Sentence level work in the primary classroom
Sentence level work could involve the following in Reception, KS1 and KS2:
- Reminding children to use capitals at the start of their sentences and full stops at the end. For this, children need to understand what a sentence is (a grammatical unit made up of one or more words). Lots of practice paying attention to pausing at the full stop when you're reading together at home can help with this.
- Encouraging children to think about where question marks and exclamation marks should go. It is important to discuss with them what these forms of punctuation are for and point them out when reading.
- Showing children how commas are often used to split up clauses in a sentence.
- Modelling correct use of speech punctuation.
- Helping them understand how to make nouns and verbs agree (for example, if a child has written: He take the bucket and spade, this would need to be corrected to: He takes the bucket and spade).
- Modelling making a sentence more interesting by adding adjectives to a noun, or adding adverbs to a verb.
- Showing children how two simple sentences can be joined together using a connective to make a complex sentence. For example: The monster roared loudly. It was hungry. could be changed to: The monster roared loudly because it was hungry.
Sentence level work can be done as a stand-alone activity, for example: teachers may give children worksheets on connectives, punctuation or powerful verbs.
It is also often taught as part of the main literacy teaching of a text; when modelling or editing a piece of writing, a teacher will pay particular attention to sentence level work. Modelling good sentences on the board is crucial for children to be able to learn how to form their own sentences. Reading a range of texts is also very important in terms of getting used to how sentences are structured.
What is the offer. How to explain to preschoolers.
| Presentation for a lesson on teaching literacy (preparatory group): Slide 1
What is a proposal? Teacher Andreeva S.L. MOBU "Aleksinskaya secondary school"
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In elementary school, a clear definition of what a sentence is is given.
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It is quite difficult to explain the definition of a sentence to preschoolers. Try this way.
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Show the children a set of words or pictures. For example: mother children Kindergarten go morning
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Say all the words with the children. Ask them how they think it could be called a proposal? Is it clear from the set of words what is being said?
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Ask them to phrase these words so that it is clear what they would like to say. For example: mother children go to kindergarten In the morning and at
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Ask the children: How did the words change when they were made into a sentence? - Yes, the words “tuned into each other”, as if they stood in a “row” and held hands.
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Ask the children to come up with more sentences.
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FOR EXAMPLE: A father is reading an interesting book to his son. -Is it clear what you are talking about? Can this sentence be called a sentence? AND IF I SAY: Book, dad, son, read. - Then you understand what I wanted to say?
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Correct! The first phrase is called a sentence. And it consists of several words that stand one after another in order. And if you break this order, as I did, then you get just a set of individual words.
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Demonstrate this with an example: "we drink very tasty tea at the table" (correct) and "we drink very tasty tea at the table" (isn't it clear?) or come up with your own sentence. Ask the child to determine if the phrase you said is a sentence? What is it about? I am sure that the preschool child will not be able to explain the meaning of the new "sentence" and even laugh at a funny set of words.
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Have your child make sentences based on the picture.
Play a fun game with him: suggestion and nonsense. Make up phrases together and rearrange the words in them.
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Together with your child, conclude what a sentence is: SENTENCE, these are words that follow each other in a certain order. They are related in meaning. And if the order is violated, then the proposal will no longer work.
Slide 14
Yulia Arteeva suggests this method. Tell the children this fairy tale: "The Tale of the Proposal" In one Magical country, there lived a Queen Speech. Words were the inhabitants of this kingdom. They lived very friendly and loved to play with each other in the same game, which was called "Proposal". The words were lined up one after the other in order. But the order must be such that the resulting sentence matters. For example: "Mom came home from work."
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Playing this game, residents could tell each other fairy tales, various interesting stories, and sing songs. With her help, everyone could talk and understand each other perfectly.
💫 But one day all the words quarreled and stopped playing "Offer".
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How to be now, how to talk? How to understand each other? Each word could only say its name: "mother", "work", "came", "from" 😢 To clean up the mess, the queen came to the rescue - Speech and suggested playing such a game: All words should join hands and spin in a round dance but you have to hold on tight! The words swirled in a round dance and said: "Words, let's live together!". And then they all sang a very funny song together. They liked the game so much that everyone decided to make peace again! After that, the residents played their favorite game again, and everyone in the state again began to understand each other!0003
Slide 17
After you tell this fairy tale to a preschool child, be sure to conclude that our speech consists of sentences. And to make the sentence clear, you need to put all the words in the correct order!
Sentence with the word "children"
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All you hear now on radio and television: neglected children , children orphans, warded children , orphanages.
Philosophy of Steep Steps, or Childhood and Youth of Nastya Chugunova, Albert Karyshev, 2013
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Half a thousand children - now it has become more noticeable that these are children - the most ordinary children , raged among the ruins, reaching for a bath.
A golden cloud spent the night, Anatoly Pristavkin, 1987
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but we want to know why children of these heroes and we, children of their children , do not now have either democracy or at least some progress in our lives?
Conspirators. Crime, Nick. Shpanov, 1951
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and children came out excellent - the valve was kept in order with all the consequences for their children and children of their children .
You never know what they say, Tatyana Solomatina, 2012
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Someone has children small, someone has medium, someone has big, someone else has a child , and someone is not going to start children .
New world. Collection of articles, Igor Vlasyev
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the deacon answered and, after a pause, he continued with a smile: – Small children - a small grief, large children - a great grief.
Man in a case (collection), Anton Chekhov
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All children are healthy, all children are beautiful, and this one, you see, what a!
Great Rosicrucian, Vsevolod Soloviev
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That children - his children - are born with other thoughts in mind.
Hard labor. Criminals, Vlas Doroshevich
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Children hold me, children , they knit my hands and legs.
Hard labor. Criminals, Vlas Doroshevich
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Children - God's blessing, children - joy.
Kreutzer Sonata (collection), Leo Tolstoy
eleven
Since there were children and the more they grew, the more often it was the children themselves who were both a means and an object of contention.
Kreutzer Sonata (collection), Leo Tolstoy
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we will see the bridge, but our children will not see , and neither we nor our children will see the railway.
Remarkable eccentrics and originals (collection), Mikhail Ivanovich Pylyaev, 1898y.
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I have children , I must tell you the truth, extremely rare children !
Abraham, Nikolai Zlatovratsky, 1878
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Strange children , one might say, unprecedented children , but if they call themselves that, so be the Lord with them.
About fathers and children and about Mr. Chekhov, Nikolai Mikhailovsky, 1892
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And I can say with a clear conscience: “O children , children , how dangerous are your summers!” It's not about age though.
About fathers and children and about Mr. Chekhov, Nikolai Mikhailovsky, 1892
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These were children of the poor, children of streets…
“Resurrection and life…”. Easter prose of Russian classics, Vladimir Nabokov
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children what would children say about such a father.
Nostalgia Boulevard, Vladimir Savich, 2016
eighteen
Lord, all children are like children , but everything is not like other people!
One bright story, Olga Vysotskaya
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Why should our children live in an orphanage with a living father, for whom other people's children turned out to be more expensive.
Captured by the Snow Queen. Book 1, Helen Hoffmann
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Most, if not all, actors in the cinema are children of other actors, and officials are children of big businessmen or other officials.
12 rules of a cunning monkey, Oleg Igorevich Mezentsev, 2020
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Here is the extension: children - happiness, children - joy, children - light in the window!
Tsar-fish, Viktor Astafiev, 1976
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children were grief, children were the cross, children were the punishment of the woman tearing her belly for them.
Yashka's children. Chekhov's heroes in the XXI century (collection), Galina Shcherbakova
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Children - drug addicts, children - drunkards, children - criminals ...
Inspector. City novel, Roman Chikin
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That's right, - children , children live like that, and their children , which are also called fashionably "journalists", these retell how Western stars go crazy.
Zeremids - demons of the state, Almaz Braev, 2018
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For a baby it's excusable to dirty diapers, that's why he is a baby baby , and you are not baby and soiled not diapers, but an offensive operation.
Don stories (collection), Mikhail Sholokhov, 2014
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No, of course he was the same child , like many other children , is a lively, intelligent, lively, but sometimes dreamy child .
Magi, Vsevolod Soloviev
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In her arms, wrapped in a warm blanket, lay a child , but child is not small, not chesty, but, judging by its height, is about three or four years old.
Great Rosicrucian, Vsevolod Solovyov
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But then I decided that she was still a child , a spoiled child , that although she is very educated, she was brought up “there”… 29
And so the child is sick, and you have to get on this very best, the one that saves, and then child rescued;
Kreutzer Sonata (collection), Leo Tolstoy
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Soon she will have child , child Jamie, and when he sees his own child, his own flesh and blood, marries his mother to name his son.
Schemer, Sidney Sheldon, 1982
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Do you really think that Ivan knows that our child is his child ?
We all burn with a blue flame, Anatoly Andreev, 2003
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Second - immediate abortion, otherwise child , or mother and child will die.
APARTMENT. Novels and stories, Valery Osinsky
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“Oh, come quickly, otherwise the child will wake up!” If child wakes up, who puts him to bed?
Happiness?, Arseniy Nikitin, 2014
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But since Elena was traveling, it was necessary to take with her children , of whom Provorov had two, and children - something, mainly, and served as a delay on the way.
Servant of Emperor Paul, Mikhail Volkonsky, 1903
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Incomes are low, children are many: Marta graduated from progymnasium, her son studied at the gymnasium, other children were even less.
Small demon, Fyodor Sologub, 1902
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Men and women, old people and children , and after children and dogs came to see an unprecedented spectacle.
Airship, Alexander Belyaev, 1934
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Let her go for a walk with children , and from a distance it seems that children are driving a cab.
Witch (collection), Nadezhda Teffi
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children were found among the forest animals, the customs of which these children learned for themselves;
Philosophical letters (collection), Petr Chaadaev
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But we, people who have children , do not need more children , they are extra care, expense, co-heirs, they are a burden.
Kreutzer Sonata (collection), Leo Tolstoy
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Fathers ducked down, children stirred, fathers began to fear children , respect them, began to fawn.
Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, Yuri Tynyanov, 1928
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Dogs and small the owner's children also came out sometimes to the visitors, and the visitors caressed the children and the dogs.
Humiliated and Insulted, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1859
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Kolotukhin had only two children , a son and a daughter - red children , as they say in the villages.
In the woods, Pavel Melnikov-Pechersky, 1871-1874
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Mrs. Moreland was a very kind woman, and wished that her children should become all that children should become;
Northanger Abbey (compilation), Jane Austen, 1818, 1817
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Or her neighbor, who also has small children , and half children we already have fatherlessness.
Case of Kukotsky, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, 2001
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Don't let the child cry too long, the lack of response to the call causes the children to stop crying.
Alphabet of education, Valentina Nikolaevna Morozova
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But since we are talking about children here, about baby souls, I have only one option: these are unborn children .
Once upon a time, Olga Lisenkova
47
Zinaida did not let her children go anywhere, being afraid of getting infected, but children of the neighboring family got infected.
Forgive me, mother. Roman, Sergey Shishkov
48
This order, by the way, was later carried out by children children and their grandchildren.
Fly to the call of Sofrata, Olga Sergeevna Moteva, 2018
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And now I basically answer him in Bulgarian that there is no need for me to call, he wants to know how it is children - let call children .
Fly to the call of Sofrata, Olga Sergeevna Moteva, 2018
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Children , those bastards didn't even spare children , he thought with anger and bitterness.
