February

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.action verbs

 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!

many students work on the star our school newspaper Subject? many students work on the star our school newspaper S Verb? (transitive or intransitive?) many students work on the star our school newspaper VI Object? many students work on the star our school newspaper OP Prepositional Phrase? (adjective or adverb?) many students work on the star our school newspaper adv prep ph Appositive Phrase? many students work on the star our school newspaper 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

 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: SV 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 VS 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. many students work on the star our school newspaper IND CL SS

 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.