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Rearrange these groups of words to form sentences. Remember to use proper
punctuation and capital letters.

• going/where/you/are • eat/I/like/ice cream/to/an
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• outside/sunny/is/it • me/pen/a/give/please

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Let’s Learn Sentences

A group of words that makes complete sense is called a sentence.

Read the following groups of words.

a Ram boy good is

Ram is a good boy.

The fi rst group of words has no meaning. But when the same words are rearranged

and wri� en in meaningful order, they become a sentence. Generally, the word order
is: subject + verb + object or other words.

A sentence has two parts—a subject and a predicate.

Read the following sentences.

The cow grazes in the fi eld.
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Subject Predicate

Our dog sits at the gate.
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Subject Predicate

In the above sentences, the cow and our dog are subjects, and grazes in the fi eld and

sits at the gate are predicates.
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