Review:
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 2 Parts of Sentences:
 Subject: Who or What
Ex. The moon shone on the gravel path.
 Predicate: tells about the subject (includes the action)
 Remember: Find the VERB to start the predicate.
Ex. The moon shone on the gravel path
Simple V. Complete
Subject
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 Simple: the main word that tells who or what
Ex. The four new students arrived early.
 Complete subject: all the words that tell whom or
what the sentence is about.
Ex. The four new students arrived early.
Examples:
Find the Simple & Complete Subject
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1) The tall, beautiful lady sipped her tea.
2) Walking through the park, the two dogs barked.
3) A round walnut table with four lets stood in the middle
of the dining room.
Compound Subject
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 Two or more subjects joined together by a
conjunction that have the same verb.
Ex. The dog and the cat sniffed the air.
Simple V Compound
Predicate
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 Simple: the main word that tells about the subject
(THE VERB)
Example: The cat jumped over the desk.
 Compound: the verb and all the words that describe
what the subject is doing.
Example: The cat jumped over the desk.
REMINDER
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 Simple usually means ONE
Types of Sentences:
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 Declarative: makes a statement.
 Uses a period.
The sky is blue.
 Imperative: command or request.
 Uses a period or an exclamation point.
Remove your belongings from the desk.
Remove your belongings from the desk!
Types of Sentences:
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 Interrogative: asks a question
 Ends with a question mark.
Will you be going to the play tonight?
 Exclamatory: shoes excitement or strong feelings.
 Uses an exclamation point.
The Penguins scored the final point!
Nouns
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 A word or word group that is used to name a
PERSON, PLACE, THING or IDEA.
Ex. Teacher, Grand Canyon, lamp, bravery
Compound Nouns
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 A single noun made of more than one word:
EX. Basketball, light-year, grand piano
Proper Nouns
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 Names a particular person, place, thing or idea.
 Get capitalized!
Ex. teacher Miss Cheatle
park North Park
city Pittsburgh
Come up with proper
nouns!
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 Lake
 Phone company
 Brand
 Sports Team
 Road
 Restaurant
Concrete Nouns and
Abstract Nouns
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 Concrete: Names a person, place or thing that can be
perceived by one or more senses.
Ex. Photograph, book, pen, friend
 Abstract: Names an idea, feeling, quality or
characteristic.
Ex. Love, tired, bold, courage
Collective Nouns
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 Word that names a group:
Ex. Batch, litter, team, class
The team lined up to begin practice.
Pronoun
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 A word that is used in place of one or more nouns.
Ex. Ask Dan in Dan has done Dan’s work.
Ask Dan if he has done his homework.
The word that the pronoun stands for is the antecedent
(DAN).
Pronoun Practice
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 When Mary went to the store, Mary bought flowers
for Mary’s grandmother.
 REWRITE THIS SENTENCE USING PRONOUNS 2
WAYS
 Put the flowers in the water before the flowers
droop.
 Ben folded the paper for Mrs. Burg, and then Ben
stuffed the newspapers in the plastic bags for Mrs.
Burg.
Personal Pronoun
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 Refers to the one speaking, the one spoken to, or the one spoken
about.
Singular
Plural
First Person
I me my mine
we us our ours
Second Person
you your yours
you your yours
Third Person
he him his
she her hers
it its
they them
their theirs
Personal Pronoun
Practice
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 Tim said “Tim answered all six questions on the quiz.”
 Jane and Lauren yelled “Jane and Lauren know!”
 The teacher asked the students to put the student’s
names on the paper.
Reflexive Pronouns
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 Reflexive: refers to the subject and is necessary to the
meaning of the sentence.
 Tara enjoyed herself at the party.
 The team prided themselves on their victory.
Add a Reflexive Pronoun
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 John worried John about the storm.
 The cat groomed the cat by licking its fur.
 The weight of the cake collapsed the cake.
Intensive Pronouns
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 Intensive: emphasizes a noun or another pronoun
and is unnecessary to the meaning of the sentence.
 I myself cooked that delicious dinner.
 Did you redecorate the room yourself?
Add a Intensive Pronoun
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 Did you eat all of those cookies?
 I cleaned all the dishes.
 Sarah completed the entire group project.
Demonstrative
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 Points out a person, place, thing or idea
Ex. This that these those
The grammar lesson is really fun.
This lesson is really fun.
Demonstrative Noun
Examples
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 I love the red shoes!
 Did you order the salad?
 She cannot read the book.
Interrogative
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 Introduces a question.
Ex. Who Which What Whom Whose
What is the name of your pet turtle?
Interrogative Examples
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 ___________ dropped the pencil?
 ___________ did the noise come from?
 ____________ are you doing this weekend?
Indefinite
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 Refers to a person, place, thing or idea which may
not be named.
Ex. All, more, none, one…
All of the students enjoyed learning about
grammar.
Indefinite
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 ________________ of the girls were talking on the
phone.
 ________________ did their homework.
Relative
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 Introduces a subordinate clause
Ex. That which who whom whose
Exercise is something that many people
enjoy.
Relative examples
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 Does Pamela, ________ is going to Europe, have her
passport?
 Thomas Jefferson, __________ wrote the Declaration
of Independence, was our country’s third president.
 The book, _________ was long, was very interesting.
VERBS
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 A verb is a word that expresses an action or state of
being.
 Ex. We celebrated the Chinese New Year yesterday.
 Ex. The holiday is usually in February.
Action Verbs
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 An action verb is a verb that expresses either
physical or mental activity (doing something)
 Ex. The owls hooted all night. (m or p?)
 Gloria plays volleyball. (m or p?)
 She thought about the problem. (m or p?)
 I believe in you. (m or p?)
Linking Verbs
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 A linking verb is a verb that expresses a state of
being. A linking verb connects, or links, the subject
to a word or word group that identifies or describes
the subject.
 Ex. Denzel Washington is an actor.
 Ex. The children remained quiet.
 HINT- linking verbs never have objects.
Helping Verbs
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 A helping verb (aux verb) helps the main verb
express action or state of being.
 Ex. The packages were sent to 401 Maple Street.
Transitive Verb
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 A verb that expresses an action directed towards a
person, a place, a thing or an idea
 (words that receive action are objects)
 Ex. Derick greeted the visitors.
Intransitive Verb
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 Expresses action without the action passing to a
receiver or object.
 Ex. Last night we ate on the patio.
Adverbs
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 An adverb is a word that modified the verb, an
adjective or another adverb (AD’s to the VERB)
 Can appear before, after or between the words they
modify.
 They answer the questions:
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Where
When
How
How often
To what extent
Adverbs
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 The sprinter ran swiftly
 I read the comics early on Sunday morning.
 Dad will sometimes quote Harry Potter.
 Put the apples there, and we will eat them later.
Prepositions
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 A word that shows the relationship of a noun or
pronoun to another word.
 The cat walked to the door.
 The cat walked through the door.
 The cat walked past the door.
 The cat walked in front of the door.
Conjunctions
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 A word that joins words or word groups.
And, but, for, nor, or, so, yet, both, either, neither….
 She read the book, but she had not seen the movie.
 Ann or Jill will read the part.
Interjections
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 A word that expresses emotion.
 Aha, my, ouch, wow, hey, oh, rates, yikes, hurray, oops,
well, yippee….
 OUCH! That hurts!
 Aha! I know the answer!
 Oh, I wish it were Friday!