How can you write a sentence using craft as a verb?

This is the person or thing that's going to perform the action in the sentence. Often the subject is a person or people: I, you, the girl, the population of India. Sometimes, however, the subject may be an animal, an inanimate object or even something intangible like an idea: cat, wall, jealousy.

2Choose your verb, the word that tells what action your subject is taking. Verbs can get very complex, depending on whether when the action is happening and how long it lasts. Avoid getting stressed out over verb tenses.

Most people can't remember the names of the tenses, but everyone who speaks English fluently knows the difference between "Mary reads" and "Mary will have been reading." The first sentences is in the present tense, and the second is in the future perfect progressive tense. 3Make certain that your verb matches the subject in number.

If your subject is the girl from the previous example, it is singular in number--there is only one girl--and your verb also has to be singular. Therefore, the girl reads or plays or walks. If you subject is children (plural in number), then your verb also has to be plural.

So the children read, play or walk. If you're working with one of the verb tenses that require "helping" verbs, these also have to be correct in number: The girl has been eating, but the children have been eating. 4Add a direct object, which is the person or thing that the subject of the sentence acts upon with the verb.

In the sentence "The girl reads a book," the object is the book, which is what the girl reads. However, the sentence "The girl mopes" doesn't need an object. 5Add an indirect object if you need more information than you can convey with only a direct object.

For instance, in the sentence "The girl lent her brother the book," the object is the book and the indirect object is her brother. It's not only necessary to know that the girl lent the book, but who she lent it to. 6Use other words that you want to add to your sentence to make it more descriptive, but that aren't necessary.

Beginning with the sentence "The girl lent her brother the book," you may want to add words to create this sentence: The girl in the pigtails lent her little brother, who was in bed sick with the flu, the book about the ponies on Assateague Island. 7Create a compound sentence by combining two simple sentences with one of these connecting words: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. To help you remember, use the mnemonic FANBOYS.

You usually have to put a comma before the connecting words (called coordinating conjunctions). 8Some examples of compound sentences are: The girl read her book, and her brother played baseball. The boy read his book, so he missed the baseball game.

1Form a complex sentence by combining two sentences with these connecting words: because, since, after, although, that, who, or which. These words are called subordinating conjunctions. The sentence that follows one of these words helps the first sentence be more descriptive.

For instance, in the sentence "The boy missed the baseball game because he read his book," you are giving the reason the boy missed the game. 2Make a sentence complex by combining two sentences that share the same subject. In this case, you will only write the subject once and one sentence becomes what's called an adjective clause.

For instance, You can take the sentence "The girl lent a book" and "The girl was watching baseball game" to make a complex sentence with an adjective clause: "The girl who was watching the baseball game lent the boy a book.".