Download Sixth Grade OMG Week 8

OMG Week 8
DAY ONE
The disease, which affected the masses, resulted in a quarantine of
people whom the disease had struck.
Simple or Compound or Complex Sentence?
Parts of Speech? (Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective,
Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection)
Parts of the Sentence? (Subject, Verb, Direct Object, Indirect Object,
Prepositional Phrase)
DAY TWO
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Rules
Capitalize the first letter of the sentence/names of people.
An appositive is a word or phrase that follows nouns and explains
its meaning. A nonrestrictive appositive adds extra information and
is surrounded by commas.
Affect = verb vs. Effect = noun
a. REMEMBER, A Very Easy Noun
Add -es for words ending in s, x, z, ch, and sh. This makes noun
forms plural or makes third person present tense verb.
a. Watch - watches vs. A bee buzzes.
An appositive is a word or phrase that follows nouns and explains
its meaning. A restrictive appositive adds information necessary to
understand the sentence and is NOT surrounded by commas.
A relative pronoun is used to join a dependent clause to its
antecedent in the independent clause.
a. 4WT = who, whom, which, whose, that
7. Relative pronouns who and whom always refer to people. Use who
when the relative pronoun is the subject of the dependent clause.
Use whom when it is the object.
a. who was a teacher vs. whom we had studied
8. End a sentence with a period.
9. A complex sentence contains an independent clause and a
dependent clause. Independent clause has a subject/verb and can
stand alone. A dependent clause has a subject/verb but CANNOT
stand alone.
Homework (DUE DAY THREE)
1. Write a sentence that includes each rule discussed. Highlight/circle
each rule.
2. Handout