Download The Sentence

WHAT IS A SENTENCE?
•Group of words expressing a complete thought.
•We peered into the room.
•The thief was waiting by the door.
•Waiting for the test. fragment
SUBJECT & PREDICATES
•The sentence consists of two parts:
•subject & predicate
•Subject = what or whom the sentence is about
•Predicate = tells something about the subject
•Thor is a great super hero.
•I love the fall season.
•The autumn leaves will fall from the trees soon.
COMPLETE SUBJECTS
•Main word or group of words in the complete subject that tell
whom or what the sentence is about.
• At the football game, the students cheered at every touch down.
• Seagulls were flying around the pier.
• The members of the club arrived.
SIMPLE SUBJECTS
• The essential or main words of the complete subject
• The WHO or WHAT
• NEVER in a preposition
• At the football game, the students cheered at every touch down.
• Seagulls were flying around the pier.
• The members of the club arrived.
COMPOUND SUBJECTS
•two or more subjects
•Joined by a conjunction
•same verb
EX: The luggage and its contents were damaged in the storm.
Zac, Josh, and Ali cooked dinner tonight.
PRACTICE
•Underline the complete subject and underline twice the simple
subject
• The old sleigh provided the only transportation during the
blizzard.
• The energetic kitten unraveled the ball of yarn.
•Exercise 1 evens
PREDICATE
•PREDICATE = VERB
COMPLETE PREDICATE
•The entire predicate (verb) side of the sentence.
•Stephen had spilled the milk while in the living room.
•My aunt was sitting on the sofa.
SIMPLE PREDICATES
•The essential word (words) within the predicate.
•Includes the helping verb.
•The students had cheered at the touch down.
•Ali baked brownies for school.
•The hockey player has flicked the puck into the goal!
COMPOUND VERBS
•two or more verbs or verb phrases
• joined by a conjunction
• same subject
• John reads and bikes everyday.
•Josh works and plays on his computer everyday.
PRACTICE
• Underline the complete predicate and underline verbs twice in the
sentences.
• Today we will clean the entire apartment.
• Yesterday we were walking by the new museum.
• EXERCISE 2 EVENS.
HW: EXERCISES 3, 4, & 5
ALL
DIRECT OBJECTS & INDIRECT OBJECTS
Complement: a word or a group of words that completes the meaning of a
verb.
Example: Jack threw the ball.
the ball is the complement ->
generally, a sentence has at least one.
Direct & Indirect objects are each a type of complement.
DIRECT OBJECTS
• A word or group of words that receives the actions of a
verb or shows the results of the action.
• A D.O. tells whom or what after a transitive verb.
• A transitive verb: is an action verb (expressing a doable activity like
kick, want, etc) & it must have a direct object, something or
someone who receives the action of the verb.
Here are some examples of transitive verbs:
• Kae kicked Ean under the table.
• Kicked = transitive verb; Ean = direct object.
• Joshuah wants a smile from Kait.
• Wants = transitive verb; smile = direct object.
Direct Object Examples
• Abbey met Brooke and me at the library.
• Met whom? Brooke and me….. Take note of where the pronoun me is !!
• Mrs. Griesel recited the poem from memory.
• Recited what?
• For EMPHASIS: the D.O. may come before the a subject & verb.
• What an excellent safety record the school holds.
• Holds what?
• record
INDIRECT OBJECTS
• A word or group of words that comes between a transitive verb
and a direct object & tells -whom or what / -for whom or for
what, the action verb is done.
• Mr. Scott showed our class pictures of the Rock-A-Thon.
• Showed to whom? Class
• Abby gave the shelter her sweater.
• Gave to what? shelter
DO NOW PRACTICE
•exercise 6 and 7 evens
•Homework: do the odds
OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENTS
•A word or group of words that help complete the
meaning of transitive verb by identifying or modifying
the D.O.
•May be a noun or an adjective
•May be compound
•Jack and Diane named their daughter Noel.
•Max painted the fence blue and white.
•Do now: exercise 8 even
HOMEWORK
•REVIEW EXERCISES A & B
SUBJECT COMPLEMENTS
• A word or word group that completes the meaning of a
linking verb and identifies or modifies the subject.
• Predicate nominative:
• word or word group that follows a linking verb
• refers to the same person or thing as the subject of the verb.
LINKING VERBS
•Linking verbs show a relationship between the subject of the
sentence and a noun or adjective being linked to it.
•Most common linking verbs are forms of the verb to be: am,
is, are, was, were, being, been.
•Other common linking verbs include: appear, become, feel,
grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, and
turn
EXAMPLES
•Mary Cassatt was a famous impressionist painter.
•Linking verb =
•Painter refers to whom?
•Mr. Scott is one of the high school principals.
•Linking verb =
•The pronoun one refers to the subject=
SUBJECT COMPLEMENT CON’T
•Predicate adjective
•An adjective that follows the linking verb
•Modifies the subject of the verb
•The autumn sky is blustery.
•The contestants looked nervous but excited.
The winners are Ian and Kyle.
P.N. & P.A. COMPOUND
Subject=
Linking verb =
P.N. =
Our weather became cold, windy, and rainy.
Subject=
Linking verb =
P.A. =
•Exercise 9 (1-5)
•Exercise 10 (1-5)
•Finish for homework
•Quiz on Friday.