Composing the First Draft with Effective Sentences Once you have researched, organized your information, and selected an organizational pattern, you are ready to compose your message. To compose a successful message, you must use effective sentences. Being able to understand sentence structure and identify sentence types will help you write more effectively. Read the following sentences, and then fill in the blanks. The presenter used visual aids to engage the audience. This is a sentence. The subject of the independent clause is and the predicate verb is.

Subject: The presenter

Predicate: used visual aids to engage the audience.

Verb: used

Explanation:

These are the correct parts of the sentence. The subject of a sentence refers to the "what" or the "whom" that the sentence is about. On the other hand, the predicate is the part in which we say something about the noun. The verb refers to the action that is performed by the subject, and it is generally considered to be part of the predicate.

The financial planning has roughly the same structure. Even in their later stages of life, they need to prepare and pre-save for any major risks that may occur. Having a spouse and children may increase this risk as well. It’s important to set aside a little future college money for their kids, maybe an allowance, ect. Their savings when it comes to risk management should also be increased. Having to not only prepare for accidents with themselves, they now also have to prepare for any accidents including their children and spouse. Saving money for assets is also important, going in debt would put the whole family in danger so making sure house/apartment payments, car payments, taxes, ect., is needed.