Subject + Verb = Single-clause sentence

Over the past week, we have been deepening our understanding of verbs, subjects and how together they make a full independent clause.

Earlier this week, we worked together to analyse the words in front of us, identify the verb and the subject. To help us, we used these specific questions which were part of our success criteria.

• What’s the first verb?
• Who (verb) /what (verb)?
• So, …is the subject.
• What’s the next verb?
• Who (verb) /what (verb)?
• So, …is the subject.
• Have we labelled everything?
• Tell me when …stops…
• So, what am I going to place here?

Because it's a full independent clause with a subject and a verb, I place a full stop at the end and then go back and add a capital letter.

We used two colours to identify when there is a new independent clause. This was a great way for us to show our understanding of the components that make up a simple sentence!