Learning about reading and writing couldn’t be complete without learning something about grammar. However, there’s no way that we can possibly cover everything a person might need to learn about grammar. Therefore, we’ve decided to include grammar exercises related to material that has given participants in the Regina SARAW program some difficulty. Exercises will include:

• Basic sentence structure
  • S+V pattern
  • compound sentences
  • building better sentences
• Capitalization and Punctuation
• Verb Agreement

Sentence Structure

The sentence is the base of the English language. We need to know how to build a strong base and what we can and cannot add to it. Grammar is the study of sentence structure and how words relate to one another in a sentence.

The Sentence

Everyone has thoughts. When we speak, we speak what we are thinking. When we write, we are also communicating our thoughts.
Each complete thought that we write is a sentence.

A sentence can be a statement.

The sun sets in the evening.

A sentence can be a question.

When do you go to work in the morning?

A sentence can be a command or an exclamation.

Get out of my kitchen!

A sentence always starts with a capital letter and ends with some kind of punctuation mark (period, question mark, exclamation point)
See the section on capitalization and punctuation for more information.