Writing Good Sentences (Part 3) - By Smrt English
Transcript
| 00:00 | students make a lot of mistakes in sentence because they | |
| 00:04 | are writing sentence fragments Now . What does that mean | |
| 00:08 | ? Well , remember , a sentence must always have | |
| 00:12 | a subject and a verb . If it doesn't have | |
| 00:15 | a subject or it doesn't have a verb , it's | |
| 00:18 | called a sentence fragment . And remember , a sentence | |
| 00:22 | is a complete idea . Let's look at some examples | |
| 00:26 | of sentence fragments , and then I'll show you how | |
| 00:29 | to fix the examples in my apartment is cold in | |
| 00:34 | the winter . Well , this is called a sentence | |
| 00:37 | fragment because this sentence doesn't have a subject . Right | |
| 00:42 | . Well , we need to write . It is | |
| 00:45 | cold . So in my apartment , it is cold | |
| 00:49 | in the winter . Okay ? Usually when we talk | |
| 00:52 | about temperature , we say it is cold . It | |
| 00:55 | is hot . Another example . He sleepy all the | |
| 01:00 | time . Well , this sentence is not okay . | |
| 01:03 | This is a sentence fragment because this sentence doesn't have | |
| 01:07 | a verb . And that's not okay in English . | |
| 01:10 | How do we fix this ? Well , easy . | |
| 01:13 | He is sleepy all the time . Now , some | |
| 01:17 | more examples are many people in the weight room are | |
| 01:22 | many people in the weight room . Well , this | |
| 01:25 | sentence doesn't have a subject , right So how do | |
| 01:29 | we fix this ? There are many people in the | |
| 01:33 | weight room very popular in English . There is there | |
| 01:36 | are and a last example the balcony . Wonderful . | |
| 01:42 | Well , this sentence is bad because it doesn't have | |
| 01:45 | a verb . How do we fix it ? Easy | |
| 01:48 | . The balcony is wonderful . Remember , A sentence | |
| 01:52 | always needs a subject and it always needs a verb | |
| 01:56 | If it doesn't have a subject or a verb . | |
| 01:59 | This is called a sentence fragment . If you'd like | |
| 02:02 | to practice this more , click on the link under | |
| 02:04 | the video . |
Summarizer
DESCRIPTION:
Mark explains the importance of using subjects and verbs to avoid making sentence fragments.
OVERVIEW:
Writing Good Sentences (Part 3) is a free educational video by Smrt English.It helps students in grades 4 practice the following standards L.4.1.f.
This page not only allows students and teachers view Writing Good Sentences (Part 3) but also find engaging Sample Questions, Apps, Pins, Worksheets, Books related to the following topics.
1. L.4.1.f : Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons.*.
GRADES:
4
STANDARDS:
L.4.1.f
