Making Sense With Sentences

Duration: 16 11

Genre: Educational

Creator: Coronet

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 28Feb75 · MP26887 (Jan-Jun 1975) Copyright holder: Coronet Instructional Media, a division of Esquire, Inc

Description: Explains what a complete sentence is and why we should complete sentences when we write. Answers questions about 'COMPLETE THOUGHTS' and how they are expressed., Pictures Frank talking to Miss Hoover on the telephone to arrange for a field trip to the newspaper plant. When the conversation is finished, Frank and Mary try to write a letter to the newspaper publisher, but Frank does not express his ideas completely enough for others to understand him. Mary helps Frank rewrite the letter so that it has complete thoughts; then she checks it to see that each sentence has a subject and a predicate and is clearly written.

Complete Record: Explains what a complete sentence is and why we should complete sentences when we write. Answers questions about 'COMPLETE THOUGHTS' and how they are expressed., Shows that a complete sentence must have both a subject and a verb, that each important idea should be told in its own sentence, and that the order of words and ideas in a sentence affects the sense of the sentence., Pictures Frank talking to Miss Hoover on the telephone to arrange for a field trip to the newspaper plant. When the conversation is finished, Frank and Mary try to write a letter to the newspaper publisher, but Frank does not express his ideas completely enough for others to understand him. Mary helps Frank rewrite the letter so that it has complete thoughts; then she checks it to see that each sentence has a subject and a predicate and is clearly written.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.