Unit 1 Understanding Sentence Basics
What Is a Sentence? 1
Working with Sentences 3
Writer’s Note: Begin a Sentence with a Capital Letter 3
Writer’s Note: End a Sentence with a period 4
Writer’s Note: Using Capital Letters 7
Writer’s Note: Question Marks 8
Writer’s Note: Prepositions of Place- AT, ON, and IN 9
Writer’s Note: Exclamation Points 11
The Parts of a Sentence 15
Sentence Development: The Simple Sentence 15
Grammar and Sentence Structure: Subjects, verbs, and Objects 16
Grammar and Sentence Structure: The Verb Be 18
Writer’s Note: Using Supporting Ideas with
There Is/There Are Sentences 22
Sentences in Paragraphs 24
Writer’s Note: Sentences and Paragraphs 24
Writer’s Note: The Title of a Paragraph 25
Word Building 30
Building Better Sentence 30
Editing 33
Writer’s Note: Self-editing 33
Writer’s Note: Peer Editing for the Writer 33
Writer’s Note: Peer Editing for the Reader 34
Journal Writing 34
Writer’s Note: Journal Writing—Write, Write, Write! 34
Sample Journal 36
