5.L.5.S 5.L.10.S 5.11.D

Sentence Structure 5th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 5.11.D
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: (i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments; (ii) past tense of irregular verbs; (iii) collective nouns; (iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms; (v) conjunctive adverbs; (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement; (vii) pronouns, including indefinite; (viii) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences; (ix) capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations; (x) italics and underlining for titles and emphasis and punctuation marks, including quotation marks in dialogue and commas in compound and complex sentences; and (xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
Arkansas Academic Standards: 5.L.5.S
Use subject/verb agreement.
Arkansas Academic Standards: 5.L.10.S
Produce a variety of simple, compound, and complex sentences.

Subject-Verb Agreement

Subjects and verbs in a sentence must agree.

Singular subjects agree with singular verbs, and plural subjects agree with plural verbs.

Special Tips for Ensuring Subject-Verb Agreement

⚜ TIP #1: Many indefinite pronouns agree with singular verbs.

Always-Singular Indefinite Pronouns

each someone anyone nobody somebody no oneanybodyeveryoneeverybody

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⚜ TIP #2: Collective nouns usually agree with singular verbs.

Examples of Collective Nouns

army class team flock crowd crewherdgangaudiencecommittee

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⚜ TIP #3: Know how to handle compound subjects.

Compound subjects are those that have more than one simple subject in a single clause or sentence.

Compound subjects joined by and are plural. They agree with plural verbs.

Compound subjects joined by or, nor, either/or, or neither/nor take verbs that agree with the subjects closest to the verbs.

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⚜ TIP #4: Know how to handle compound predicates.

Compound predicates have more than one main verb per subject in a clause or sentence.

All

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⚜ TIP #5: The words "there" and "here" are never the subjects of sentences.

Here

There

after

❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋

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Sentence Structure Errors

Learn to spot and fix errors in sentence structure!

Types of Sentence Structure Errors

⚜ ERROR #1: Sentence Fragments

Every sentence needs a subject and a verb that work together to make a complete thought. If either the subject or the verb is missing, the sentence is incomplete. It is a sentence fragment.

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⚜ ERROR #2: Run-on Sentences

Run-on sentences have two or more independent clauses that are not correctly connected by punctuation and/or conjunctions.

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⚜ ERROR #3: Comma Splices

Comma splices are a special type of run-on sentence. They have two or more independent clauses that are incorrectly separated by only a comma.

❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋

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Sentence Structure

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 5.11.D

Arkansas Academic Standards: 5.L.5.S

Use subject/verb agreement.

Arkansas Academic Standards: 5.L.10.S

Produce a variety of simple, compound, and complex sentences.

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