You only need a verb and subject to create a simple sentence.
Jesus wept.
That's the shortest sentence in the Bible. Subject - Jesus, wept - verb.
It's simple, but think of the feeling behind it. Consider, the son of god - powerful, all-seeing, immortal (kind of), highest status etc - simply crying. A human emotion, first thing we do as babies, which is associated with despair, upset etc. Short sentences can have big meaning, especially when these sentences have been led up to with powerful prose.
Normally, there's an object too.
Jesus chased the car.
The object is 'the car'.
Don't write in fragments (sentences without either Subject or Verb) unless for good reason. Tell the examiner that it's a fragment with an ellipsis or ... (only three dots). Dialogue has it's own rules, which we'll cover later.
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