Grammar Unit 1: Elements of a Complete Sentence

The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.

A complete sentence expresses a complete thought and includes a subject and a verb.

A sentence fragment is a group of words that does not express a complete thought and is missing either a subject or a verb.

sleeps

The verb expresses the action or state of being of the subject.

fragment

A declarative sentence makes a statement and ends with a period.

An interrogative sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark.

The dog

An imperative sentence gives a command or request and can end with a period or an exclamation mark.