1. Grammar review
Units 1-3

2. Unit 1 What type of sentence are the following sentences…
Choices include: declarative, exclamatory, interrogative and imperative
“Please stop running,” asked the teacher.
March 17, 2018 is Saint Patrick’s Day.
What time is your gymnastics class on Saturday?
I am angry!
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3. UNIT 1 “Please stop running,” asked the teacher. (imperative)
March 17, 2018 is Saint Patrick’s Day. (declarative)
What time is your gymnastics class on Saturday? (interrogative)
I am angry! (exclamatory)

4. UNIT 1
What is the simple subject and simple predicate in the following sentence?
The flowers bloom during the spring months.
What is the complete subject and complete predicate in the following sentence?
My brother loves playing baseball with my dad.
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5. UNIT 1
The flowers bloom during the spring months. Flowers is the simple subject because it is the noun or pronoun telling what the sentence is about; bloom is the simple predicate because it is the verb indicating what the subject is doing. My brother loves playing baseball with my dad. My brother is the complete subject; loves playing baseball with my dad is the complete predicate.

6. UNIT 1 What kind of sentence are the following sentences…
Choices include: simple, compound or complex
Before you go to school, please make your bed.
The chorus sang a beautiful melody.
I planned to go to HersheyPark, but I could not find a ride.
Is this sentence a run-on or fragment? The very big sandwich.
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7. UNIT 1 Before you go to school, please make your bed. (complex)
The chorus sang a beautiful melody. (simple)
I planned to go to HersheyPark, but I could not find a ride. (compound)
Is this sentence a run-on or fragment? The very big sandwich.
This sentence is a fragment because the predicate is missing.

8. UNIT 2
Identify the underlined nouns in the following sentences as common or proper; singular or plural.
John reached into his locker to get his notebooks.
The geese flew to Florida during the winter months.
When my Aunt Rose opened the cabinet, mice scampered everywhere.
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9. Unit 2 John reached into his locker to get his notebooks.
John is a proper noun and singular. Locker is a common noun and singular.
Notebooks is a common noun and plural.
The geese flew to Florida during the winter months.
Geese is a common noun and plural. Florida is a proper noun and singular.
Months is common and plural.
3. When my Aunt Rose opened the cabinet, mice scampered everywhere.
Aunt Rose is proper and singular. Cabinet is common and singular. Mice is
common and plural.

10. Unit 2
1. What is difference between an abstract and concrete noun? 2. Family, bouquet, flock, and herd are examples of what type of noun? 3. A noun that shows ownership or possession is called a _________noun. Answers on the next slide

11. UNIT 2
1. What is difference between an abstract and concrete noun? An abstract noun names ideas and feeling that can’t be seen, heard or touched. Examples: love, courage, honor, envy A concrete noun names things that exist in the physical world. Examples: fish, bread, cellphone, paper 2. Family, bouquet, flock are examples of what type of noun? Collective 3. A noun that shows ownership or possession is called a possessive noun. Examples: children’s, housekeeper’s, Lisa’s

12. UNIT 2
Identify the verbs in the following sentences and what type of verb (action, linking or helping) they are…
The deer moved slowly through the deep forest.
I will change the appointment until next week.
Ayla has a yellow and green birthday cake.
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13. UNIT 2 The deer moved slowly through the deep forest.
moved is an action verb
I will change the appointment until next week.
will is a helping verb and change is an action verb
Ayla has a yellow and green birthday cake.
has is linking verb

14. UNIT 2
Complete the chart below for the action verb TYPE. Complete the chart below for the linking verb AM
Present tense
He types.
Past tense
We typed.
Future tense
She will type.
Present tense
I am a mother.
Past tense
I was a mother.
Future tense
I will be a mother.

15. UNIt 3 Identify the type of pronoun in the following sentences…
Choices are subject, object, reflexive or possessive.
We worked together as a team.
I can solve the problem by myself.
Phillip begged her to go to the dance with him.
Is that your scarf?
Together, they twill clean up the cafeteria.
Her jeans are ripped on the knees.
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16. UNIT 3 We worked together as a team. ( we is a subject pronoun)
I can solve the problem by myself. (myself is a reflexive pronoun)
Phillip begged her to go to the dance with him. (her is an object pronoun)
Is that your scarf? (your is a possessive pronoun)
Together, they twill clean up the cafeteria. (they is a subject pronoun)
Her jeans are ripped on the knees. (Her is a possessive pronoun)

17. UNIT 3
Final note:
Be sure you know what an antecedent is and how to find it in a sentence.
Be sure you review your notes about vague pronouns and pronoun shifts.
There are many online practice games and exercises on my teacher page under “Grammar Skills”
GOOD LUCK!