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 |