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ELA 4: Complete Sentences
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ELA 4: Word Choice
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In order to make a sentence you need three ingredients. A noun, a verb, and bacon...wait. Let's try that again. A noun, a bacon, and a pile of bacon. Hm. That went even worse. Just watch the video while we baconize ourselves.

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00:04

[Coop and Dino singing]

00:13

If you've ever made a sandwich, you probably know how important it is to include all of [Woman making a sandwich]

00:17

the ingredients.

00:18

A PB&J is not a PB&J without the P&B.

00:21

But…it's still pretty delicious. [Girl eating a PB&J sandwich]

00:23

Mmmm, jelly…

00:25

Anyway, sentences are exactly the same.

00:27

…Well, okay, not exactly.

00:29

We don't recommend eating them, no matter how covered in jelly they are. [Man eating a jelly covered sentence]

00:32

But in order to make a meaningful and effective sentence, you need three ingredients:

00:36

A noun, a verb, and an adjective.

00:39

Some jelly wouldn't hurt either… [Jelly added to a sentence recipe]

00:41

So let's break down our ingredients: a noun is a word that is used to identify a person,

00:45

place or thing.

00:46

Clown.

00:47

Weasel.

00:47

Rubber band.

00:48

Root beer.

00:49

These are all nouns.

00:50

And the ingredients for one super fun, super weird party. [Clown and weasel at a party]

00:53

A verb is a word used to describe an action or occurrence.

00:56

To run.

00:57

To skip.

00:58

To eat.

00:59

To play.

01:00

To watch Shmoop videos. [Girl watching shmoop video]

01:02

Those are all verbs.

01:03

Lastly, an adjective is a word used to describe a noun.

01:06

Funny.

01:07

Delicious.

01:07

Angry.

01:08

Hairy.

01:09

Tall.

01:09

All of these describe something and are therefore adjectives. [Adjectives, noun and verb added to a magician hat]

01:12

Put ‘em all together (in the correct order) and what do you get?

01:15

A sandwich!

01:17

Whoops… we meant a sentence! [Sandwich transforms into sentence]

01:19

“A funny clown runs.”

01:20

“A delicious weasel skips.”

01:23

“An angry rubber band eats.” [Rubber band eating a sandwich]

01:25

These are all examples of basic sentences with a noun, a verb and an adjective.

01:29

They might not make sense, but they sure are sentences.

01:32

And it's important to remember that the way you write and the way you speak are two totally

01:37

different things.

01:38

While you might say “Okay” or “Cool” as sentences in speech, those don't really [Man talking on a mobile phone]

01:42

work in writing – after all, where the heck is the noun, the adjective and the verb?

01:48

Those are what we call sentence fragments and should be avoided. [Coop discussing sentence fragments]

01:52

Though feel free to use them in text messages, which are basically the Wild West of writing…

01:56

No laws out here, partner.

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