Complete Sentences and Fragments
When you speak or write it's important to use complete sentences. A complete sentence is a complete thought. It has a subject and a predicate. With out a subject OR a predicate OR both, you can't have a complete thought.
If I just say to you "My dog." and then stop, you're going to think "Well, what about your dog?" This is an incomplete sentence. We have a special word for incomplete sentences and that word is: Fragment.
Now, if I say to you "My dog eats cat food." Or "My dog is beautiful." You understand. This is a complete thought, and a complete sentence. We know WHO or WHAT eats or is, and what that person or thing DOES or IS. We call these two things Subject and Predicate.
Subject tells us WHO or WHAT does or is.
Ex. My dog eats cat food.
Ex. My dog is beautiful.
Predicate tells us what the person or thing DOES or
IS.
Ex. My dog eats cat food.
Ex. My dog is beautiful.
If I just say to you "My dog." and then stop, you're going to think "Well, what about your dog?" This is an incomplete sentence. We have a special word for incomplete sentences and that word is: Fragment.
Now, if I say to you "My dog eats cat food." Or "My dog is beautiful." You understand. This is a complete thought, and a complete sentence. We know WHO or WHAT eats or is, and what that person or thing DOES or IS. We call these two things Subject and Predicate.
Subject tells us WHO or WHAT does or is.
Ex. My dog eats cat food.
Ex. My dog is beautiful.
Predicate tells us what the person or thing DOES or
IS.
Ex. My dog eats cat food.
Ex. My dog is beautiful.