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A sentence expresses a complete thought
Textbook: Part 4, topic 21, pp. 4–16
GoalKnow that a sentence expresses a complete thought and that its words must be linked to each other.
New words
sentence · gapthought · fikrcomplete · tugallanganto be linked · bog‘lanmoq
Explanation
A sentence expresses a complete thought. It is made of words, but any row of words is not a sentence. The words must be linked correctly by meaning. The first word of a sentence starts with a capital letter. “Sardor telefon uy” is not a sentence. “Sardor uyda rasm chizdi.” (Sardor drew a picture at home.) is a sentence.
Worked examples
Sentence: Samolyot osmonda uchyapti. (The aeroplane is flying in the sky.) Not a sentence: samolyot, osmon, katta.
“Bahor keldi.” (Spring has come.) — the thought is finished. “Bahor ...” — the thought is not finished.
Class activity
“Living sentence”: each child holds one word card (Bolalar, bog‘da, o‘ynayapti). They line up in the right order to form a sentence. If the order is wrong, the class says “Not a sentence!”
Practice
1
Is this a sentence? “Qushlar daraxtda sayraydi.” (Birds sing in the tree.)
Yes, the thought is complete.
2
Is this a sentence? “Katta qizil”
No, the thought is not complete.
3
Make a sentence: o‘qiyapti, kitob, Madina.
Madina kitob o‘qiyapti. (Madina is reading a book.)