Discovering Sentences

This is a great time to emphasize capitalization and punctuation, and teach sentence types and give examples such as:

• Imperative: Do it!
• Interrogative: Do What?
• Declarative: Do this.
• Exclamatory: Help me!
• etc.

Textbooks are allowed, as are superlatives, past tenses, plurals and other suffixes, etc. that can be devised from the basic words on the list:

• SAY: said, saying, says, etc.
• BAD: badder, baddest, badly, badness, etc.

Some possible sources for your word list:

• The 500 Most Commonly Used Words in the English Language
• The 100 Most Commonly Used Verbs in the English Language

A big thanks to bill for this EFL/ESL game!