Page 79

Creating Sentences

Sometimes the fish are biting. You reel one in only to cast again and catch the next one. Before you know it, you’ve got a string of fish!

Sometimes the sentences come easily. You reel one in only to cast and catch the next. When that happens, writing is a pleasure. The better you get at catching sentence after sentence and stringing them into paragraphs, the more fun you’ll have with writing.

Sentences have two basic parts—the subject (what the sentence is about) and the predicate (the part that says something about the subject). Think of the subject as the head of the fish, and the predicate as the tail that moves the rest.

This chapter teaches you how to catch sentences that really move!