Download Simple Sentence/ Independent Clause

REVISING
SIMPLE SENTENCE/ INDEPENDENT CLAUSE
MAN
S
Subject
Who or what the sentence
is about. [The Noun}
P
Predicate
What the subject is, does, did, or
is doing.
WHERE DO YOU SPLIT THE SUBJECT AND THE
PREDICATE?
ACTION VERBS
What the subject is doing, did, or is doing.
Play Simon Says with the students and explain that what they are doing is the verb.
HELPING VERBS
UNDERLINE THE SUBJECT ONCE,
UNDERLINE THE PREDICATE TWICE, AND
BOX IN THE VERB.
The Pretty Princess and Big Bertha walked into the youth center and saw that no one was
there.
Little Laney was crying, “Nobody wanted to come to my birthday party, wahhhhhh.”
The Pretty Princes grabbed her ruby gem cell phone and sent a magical mass text
message.
The frog is green.
The frog shall not kiss the princess.
REVISE YOUR OWN PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Grab 4 colored pencils of your choice.
1.Now go back to your own narrative and bracket each sentence in one color while at
the sometime ensuring that all sentences start with a capital letter, and that they
have ending punctuation.
2. Underline the subject once with the 2 nd color
3. Underline the predicate twice with the 3rd color
4. Box in the verb with the 4th color
EDITING
Capitalization Rules
Ending Marks
NOW PUBLISH YOUR OWN PERSONAL NARRATIVE