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February 11 - 15
Grammar review – What is a subject?
 The
subject describes who or what the
sentence is about.
 It can be made of one or several words.
 The subject is always a noun
Person
Place
thing
idea
 Group
of words beginning with a
preposition and ending with a noun or a
pronoun.
 They
can act as an adjective:
• I want a room with a view.
 They
can act as an adverb:
• His house is on the lake.
What is the difference between these two
sentences?
The batter hit the ball.
The bird sang.
Transitive verbs are action verbs that have an object to
receive that action. In the first sentence above, the
direct object ball received the action of the verb hit.
Intransitive verbs are action verbs but unlike transitive
verbs, they do not have an object receiving the action.
Notice there are no words after the verb sang.
Direct objects:
 Are nouns or pronouns
 Follow an action verb
 Is never in a prepositional phrase
 To find it, say “subject,” “verb,” “what”?
Example → I like English. “I” “like” “what?”
English
(direct object)
 Indirect
objects:
 Are nouns or pronouns
 Come before a direct object
 Are never prepositional phrases
 To find them, say “subject,” “verb,” “direct object”, “to
or for whom or what?”

Example → He gave me the paper
“He” “gave” “paper” “to whom?”
me (indirect object)
 Are
nouns or pronouns that follow and
rename another noun or pronoun:
My son Beck likes trains.
Ansley, my daughter, loves to dance.
You will know you are looking at an
appositive phrase if it can be removed
from the sentence and still leave you with
a complete sentence!
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Subject?
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Verb? (transitive or intransitive?)
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Object?
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OP
Prepositional Phrase? (adjective or adverb?)
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adv prep ph
Appositive Phrase?
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app ph
 Please
do Exercise A on the Review B
worksheet.
Three words from this root word
Another form of each to the three words in row two
Sentence
Sentence
Sentence
 Please
get the book that you selected for
independent reading and read SILENTLY
for the next 20 minutes.
 When I tell you that time is up, please fill
out your worksheet (a summary or your
thoughts on what you read – at least 5
sentences NOT copied from the book)
and put it in your IR folder.
What is a clause?
A clause is a word group that contains
a verb and its subject and that is used as
a sentence or part of a sentence.
Although every clause contains a
subject and a verb, not every clause
expresses a complete thought.
Clauses that do express a complete
thought are called independent.
Clauses that do not express a
complete thought are called subordinate.
 An
independent (or main) clause
expresses a complete thought and can
stand by itself as a sentence.
Example: The people left the building.
A
subordinate (or dependent) clause
does not express a complete thought and
cannot stand by itself as a sentence.
 To
make a complete sentence, a
subordinate clause must be joined to an
independent clause.
Example: when you arrive at the airport
 Depending
on its structure, a sentence
can be classified as simple, compound,
complex, or compound-complex.
A
simple sentence contains one
independent clause and no subordinate
clauses.
Example:
The boys wanted to take a vacation last summer.
S
V
A
compound sentence contains two or more
independent clauses and no subordinate
clauses.
Example:
S
V
Originally, they wanted to ride bikes all the
S
V
way, but they decided to take the train
instead.
A
complex sentence contains one
independent clause and at least one
subordinate clause.
Example:
S
V
S
V
If they took a train, they could see all the
sights, too.
A
compound-complex sentence contains
two or more independent clauses and at
least one subordinate clause.
Example:
S
V
S
The band played at a dance, and Ray was
V
S
V
pulled into a line dance that was starting.
Identify the clause(s) and the sentence
type.
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IND CL
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 Please
do Exercise A on the Review B
worksheet.
 Please
get the book that you selected for
independent reading and read SILENTLY
for the next 20 minutes.
 When I tell you that time is up, please fill
out your worksheet (a summary or your
thoughts on what you read – at least 5
sentences NOT copied from the book)
and put it in your IR folder.