- Look at the sentences and mark what’s wrong in it. Are you able to understand these sentences?
- The bird is _____.
- The ___ is crying.
- It __ a Yacht.
- Feeling shy you are?
- This park is.
- In the first 3 sentences, some words are missing. So, we can’t understand the complete meaning of these sentences.
- In the last two sentences the words are not in proper order. So, we can’t understand the correct meaning of the sentences. These are also not the meaningful sentences.
- We can say a meaningful sentence is a group of words that tells complete thought/idea.
- It begins with a capital letter and ends with punctuation marks like ‘full stop’ and ‘question mark’.

- It also answers the question of “who” and “what”.


- It has a fixed order of forming the sentence to give meaningful sentence.
- Examples:
- The girl is dancing.
- The dog s running.
- The baby is crying.



- Some other sentences who don’t answer “who” are also meaningful sentences.
- Examples:
- This is an apple.
- That is an aeroplane.
- It is a car.



- There are some other sentences which doesn’t show the complete meaning. Those are not the meaningful sentences.
- Let’ see some examples.
- Whole day & night.
- At the pool?


- This is how we can identify the meaningful sentences by looking at its formation and meaning.
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