Transcript SCRIBBLE PAD - Saint Agatha School

English Notes
Subjects, Predicates,
and Sentence Parts
Mrs. Jewett
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Kinds of Sentences
There are four different types of sentences.
They are known as:
Declarative
Interrogative
Exclamatory
Imperative
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Declarative
A sentence that makes a statement is a
declarative sentence. It declares
something:
I started middle school today.
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Interrogative
A sentence that asks a question is an
interrogative sentence. It ends with a
question mark:
Do you like the block schedule?
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Exclamatory!!!
A sentence that expresses a strong feeling is
exclamatory!
It ends in an exclamation point:
This is amazing!
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Imperative
A sentence that gives a command, however
so polite, is an imperative sentence. The
subject of this sentence is always an
“understood” (YOU):
Bring the letter back signed no later than
Friday.
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Can you identify the following?
Identify the following types of sentences.
1. What’s for lunch?
2. May I use the restroom?
3. Stay in a straight line.
4. Whoa, be careful.
5. Will we be following the normal schedule
on Friday?
6. I plan to do my best this year.
7. You don’t have your books yet!
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Exercise #1 continued
8.Please, sit in your assigned seat.
9.Whenever the teacher is speaking, the
students should be quite.
10. Are we ever getting a break?
11. Ahhh! It’s a lizard!
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Sentences and Sentence Parts
• A sentence expresses a complete thought.
Every sentence has a subject and a
predicate.
• A sentence fragment does not express a
complete thought. It may be missing a
subject, a predicate, or both.
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Parts of a sentence
• The subject is the noun part of the
sentence. It tells you who or what the
sentence is about. The subject is also the
one who carries out the action or the main
verb in the sentence.
• The predicate of the sentence tells what
the subject does or has. It is the verb or
action part of a sentence.
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Which are sentences and which are
fragments?
• If the phrase is a fragment, determine what
part(s) of the sentence is missing.
• If the phrase is a sentence, think about
what kind of sentence it is.
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Which are sentences and which
are fragments?
• 1. Geneticist Warick Kerr studied
honeybees.
• 2. At the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil
• 3. Every Saturday morning at the club
treehouse.
• 4. The hot summer months.
• 5. When they are defending their nests.
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Exercise continued
6. In all directions.
7. Dr. Kerr carefully kept the bees in
enclosures.
8. Were Raking leaves or pulling weeds for
elderly people.
9. Other jobs, too.
10. Reproducing quickly and swarming
frequently.
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Food for thought
“Ready?”
“In a minute”
“No, now!”
“OK,OK”
• Remember: In speech, your tone of voice
and facial expressions help you carry your
meaning. In writing, you do not have
these aids. Your words express your ideas
completely and clearly.
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The Position of the Subject
• The subject does not always come at the
beginning of a sentence. It may be in the
middle or even at the end.
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Examples
• Are we going to special area?
• After school, sponsors picked up students
for extracurricular activities.
• On the window sill was a bamboo plant.
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Find the subject in each sentence
1. Would you mind not making a mess?
2. The teacher disciplines the class every
day.
3. After my second block, I have to prepare
for lunch.
4. The boy with the yellow toy duck is my
little brother.
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Exercise continued
6. Before dismissal, we say the Act of
Contrition.
7. On the second floor at the end of the hall,
is Mrs. Delgado’s class.
8. Wrestling with the heavy bags in her
hand, the girl struggled to open the door.
9. With out thinking twice, the young man
opened the door for the girl.
10. The students at St. Agatha Catholic
School practice the ten commandments
of good manners. :)
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Identifying Complete Subjects and
Simple Subjects
The complete subject of a sentence
includes the main noun and all the other
words that make up the noun part of the
sentence.
A simple subject is the main noun in the
complete subject. It is the one that will
carry out the action of the sentence.
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Examples
A bright-red cardinal sat on the window sill.
Complete subject
A bright-red cardinal
Simple subject
cardinal
Example
The first prize is a gold medal.
Complete subject
The first prize
Simple subject
prize
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Exercise 4
Find the complete subject. Then identify the
simple subject.
1. The plant on the desk belongs to the
teacher.
2. Performers in the dance company moved
gracefully to the music.
3. The desk that is on the left side of the
cabinet contains the sign-out sheet.
4. Maria walked to the park.
5. Maria, who is brave, walked to the park
alone.
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Identifying Predicate and Positions
of the Predicate
The predicate usually comes after the subject.
Sometimes, however, part or all of the
predicate comes before the subject.
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Predicates
In the following sentences, the predicates are
in boldfaced type.
Examples
Outside the tent was a baby bear.
Late in the night we heard a noise.
Has the dough risen enough?
Stop right there!
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Special Note:
• Since the predicate can come before the
subject in sentences with inverted word
order, and in declarative sentences that
begin with Here is, Here are, There is,
There are, it is important to note that the
words Here and There are NEVER the
subject of the sentence.
• They answer the question “Where?” and
are part of the predicate.
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Identify the predicates in the
following sentences
• Marco’s brother delivers pizzas.
• Under a large bush sat the tiny rabbit.
• Does this copier staple and fold
documents?
• How talented you are!
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Complete Predicate and Simple
Predicate
The complete predicate contains the main
verb which is known as the simple
predicate.
This is the main action of the sentence that
the subject performs, or is responsible for
performing.
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Examples
The nurse lifted the patient carefully.
Complete predicate
carefully.
Simple predicate
lifted the patient
lifted
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Identify the complete predicate and
simple predicate in the following
sentences.
Example
• I saw one of my classmates on TV the
other day.
• My silky terrier chewed my daughter’s
Legos.
• Random sentences are very annoying.
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Examples
• Over the paper raced Irving’s pen.
• There is Irving’s original manuscript.
• Write a list of materials for the project.
• Here is a poster of Mars.
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