Meaningful Sentences 101

What is a meaingful sentence?

A meaningful sentence is one that uses context clues and synonyms to convey the meaning of a vocabulary word in the sentence.

To make a GREAT original meaningful sentence use one of the following techniques:

Synonym clue: sentence contains a word that means the same or nearly the same as the unknown word. (You should not choose a synonym that is unknown to you.)

Antonym clue: sentence contains a word that means the opposite as the unknown word.

Techniques: Continued

Example clue: example of the word is used in the sentence

Definition clue: definition of the word is used in the sentence. (Do NOT use “word, or definition” in the sentence.)

You only use one of these techniques per vocabulary word.

Very Important

Your original meaningful sentences CAN NOT have any of the following:

• CAN NOT start with I, He, She, We, They

• Any sentence that has these words will not receive credit!

For example:

The vocabulary word is: ostracize

What NOT to do:

I was ostracized in the class.

What you should do:

Synonym clue: Chad felt ostracized, left out, when

he had to sit alone in the cafeteria.

Antonym clue:Courtney worried that her friends

would ostracize her, but instead they group included her.

Example clue:The boy, who had been ostracized

from his friends because he had been punished, wished he could have joined them in the game.

Definition Clue:A vote had been taken to ostracize

the criminal, and he had to be immediately excluded from the group.

Reminders for writing meaningful sentences:• Use all vocabulary words from

each unit to write meaningful sentence

• Only one word per sentence (You should have 20 sentences.)

• Underline or highlight the vocab word

• You must use correct grammar, capitalization and punctuation

• Vocabulary words must be spelled correctly and used correctly.

Don’t Forget…

• Your original meaningful sentences must be typed and submitted into turnitin.com by the given due date.

• You CAN NOT –start with I, He, She, We, They

Meaningful sentence practice and identification

YES

1. The aperture in the little cave served as window, and let in just the tiniest amount of light to see by.

NO

2. The actor delivered a great soliloquy.

No

3. There was a chimera in the closet.

Yes

4. The dog was fettered to the post in the yard so that he could not escape and wander the neighborhood.

No

5. I was scared walking in the catacombs.

No

6. The kids at the movies made clamor during the movie.