The Sentence

What is a Sentence?

  • Let’s read these words.

poor, is, lady, she, a

Do these words convey a complete idea or thought?

No, they do not express any meaningful idea.

  •  Let’s read these words arranged in different way.

She is a poor lady.

Now we see, these words express a meaningful idea.

  •  So,

      1.   A sentence is a group of words that conveys a complete idea.

      2.   A sentence always makes complete sense.

      3.   A sentence always starts with capital letter and end with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.

      4.   A sentence must have at least one doing word i.e. verb.

 

Practice Exercise:

Q1-  Unscramble the following sentences.

       a.   you Can help homework? me with my

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       b.   I you. help  will

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       c.   the Where keys? are

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       d.   candies. I went some to buy

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       e.   up Never give  trying. hope without

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        f.    me. forgive Please

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        g.   was tia baby. cute a

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        h.   I cook. have a good very

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         i.     cheat! What a

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         j.    This mine. book is

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Q2 Rewrite the sentence in correct order, putting in the capital letters and full stop.

        a.  diva bag has sticker a new

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        b.   we french learning are

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        c.   apple is she eating an

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        d.   I football can’t play

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         e.   rita clothes washed the

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         f.    he did silently the work

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         g.   raj the sent letter to a Headmaster

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         h.   He is working hard for his exam.

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          i.     We come here often.

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          j.    I saw zoo the white at peacock the

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