L.A. Scribe Post for February 9, 2007
During L.A. today we were passed back our tests from the day before, on our assigned reading books. We talked about complex and simple sentences, and we talked about the subject and predicate of a sentence. A complex sentence is one that has two combined thoughts. For example the sentence I wrote just a couple lines back says “We talked about complex and simple sentences, and we talked about the subject and predicate of a sentence.”, that is a complex sentence because I am talking about complex and simple sentences but also I’m talking about the subject and predicate of a sentence. I combined to separate thoughts and made them into one complete sentence, but I also could have split them into two sentences and they both could have still made sense. Also some of the words to create a complex sentence are and, or, nor, and but. A simple sentence is a sentence that only expresses one idea. For example ” Billie Joe, Tre Cool, and Mike Dirnt are all members of the band Green Day.” This is a simple sentence even though I have more than one subject because I’m not expressing a thought about each of them I’m only saying one thought about all of them. The subject of a sentence is what the sentence is about , or the noun of the sentence. A predicate is the action word, or verb. These characteristics of a sentence are what we learned about in L.A.
