Review
Definitions:
Sentence -- Contains at least one "full independent clause"
Clause -- Contains a "subject" and a "predicate"
Phrase -- More than one word, containing a concrete idea
Subject -- One of the following things: A noun with a determiner, a noun without a determiner, an infinitive (or infinitive phrase), a gerund (or gerund phrase), an expletive, an implied subject, a full clause starting with "That", or "it" followed by a co-referent "that"
Predicate -- a phrase that starts with a conjugated verb, sometimes followed by additional information
To Smoke - Infinitive Verb
Smoke - Noun / Base Form of Verb
Smoky - Adjective
Smoked - Past Participle / Adjective
My mother used to smoke at night. ("to smoke" in habitual past tense")
My mother smoked at night. ("to smoke" in simple past tense)
My mother was smoking at night. ("to smoke" in past continuous)
To make a simple present tense sentence in English, we need at least one independent clause:
1) Put the subject
2) Put the predicate, with the verb in Base Form (unless the subject is third person, singular--for this, use the 'plural' base form)
3) Put a "."
To make a simple present tense question with the verb "to be":
1) Put the conjugation of "to be"
2) Put the subject
3) Put the rest of the predicate
4) Put a "?"
To make a simple present tense question with a verb other than "to be":
1) Put the conjugation of "to do"
2) Put the subject
3) Put the rest of the predicate, with the verb in base form.
4) Put a "?"
To make a simple present tense negation with the verb "to be":
1) Put the subject
2) Put the conjugation of "to be"
3) Put the word "not"
4) Put the rest of the predicate
5) Put a "."
To make a simple present tense negation with a verb other than "to be":
1) Put the subject
2) Put a conjugation of "to do"
3) Put the word "not" (or you can make a contraction like 'don't or doesn't')
4) Put the rest of the predicate, with the verb in base form
5) Put a "?"
