What you will learn in Grade 3
Today's goal: Recognise the basic sentence pattern and expand a short sentence without losing clarity.
Subject + verb: Birds fly.
A basic sentence can be built with a subject followed by a verb.
Subject + verb + object: Maya reads books.
A subject + verb + object structure shows who does an action and what receives it.
Add detail: Maya reads storybooks every evening.
Extra details can be added to a sentence to make the meaning more specific.
A complete sentence expresses a complete idea.
A complete sentence must express a complete thought and normally contain a subject and a verb.
Core idea
Read the explanation, study the examples and explain the idea in your own words.
Learn with examples
Maya
“Maya” identifies who or what the sentence is about.
reads
“reads” tells what the subject does or is.
books
“books” receives the action of the verb.
See the skill in action
Quick check
What is missing from 'reads a book': a clear subject or punctuation?
Practice like a learner
- Build: plays / Arun / chess.
- Add a subject: ___ is reading.
- Expand 'The dog runs' with one detail.
- Write a sentence with subject + verb + object.
- Check your sentence for a complete idea.
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