Transcript of Let’s review subjects and verbs! Verbs. What is a subject? The subject is ____ or ____ the...
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- Lets review subjects and verbs! Verbs
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- What is a subject? The subject is ____ or ____ the sentence is
about. It is always a ____ or _______. For example: The man went to
the store. ________ (Man is who the sentence is about, so it is the
subject of the sentence.) What is the subject in this sentence?
Fred laughed loudly at the joke. ________ whowhat nounpronoun
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- What is a verb? A verb is a word that tells _______ or _______
action or state of ______. physical mentalbeing
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- What does a verb do? Verbs have different roles in a sentence,
depending on how they are used. There are _____ main types of verbs
Action verbs Linking verbs Helping verbs These two types are often
be verbs three
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- Be Verbs Is Are Was Were Am Be Been Being
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- Action Verbs Lets talk about action verbs first. These tell
what the _______ is ______. For example: Jan mowed the lawn. Harold
drives the school bus. subjectdoing ________________
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- Action Verb Practice Underline the subject once and the verb
twice in the following sentences. *Remember that the prepositional
phrase wont contain either one. 1. I greatly admire her talent. 2.
She uses a wooden ball as the puppets head. 3. She stuffs the body
with straw. 4. Then she paints on the face.
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- 5. My aunt also teaches how to make puppets. 6. Everyone in my
class enjoys reading. 7. Some people build model ships and
airplanes. 8. One of us knits woolen sweaters and scarves. 9.
Daniel carves small figures out of wood. 10. On Saturdays, he
teaches a class at the arts and crafts center.
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- Linking Verbs These verbs link a subject to a noun or adjective
in the predicate that rename or describe it. For example: The taxi
is yellow with black checks. Yellow is an adjective describing
taxi. *Remember that a prepositional phrase will not contain the
subject, verb, or what the subject is being linked to. _______ ( )
_______________________
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- Some Common Linking Verbs: appearseem becomesmell feelsound
growtaste lookbe (is, are, was, were, am, be, been, being)
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- Lets try another one: That dinner looks delicious. What if we
said: Sue looked at the food. Then would it be a linking verb?
_______________ _________________ ( ) NO!!! Some verbs can be
action OR linking depending on how they are used, so watch
out!!
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- Linking Verb Practice Underline the subject once, the verb
twice, and then draw an arrow from the subject to the word(s) in
the predicate that rename or describe the subject. *Remember to
watch out for prepositional phrases. 1. Most women in the United
States became homemakers during the 1800s. 2. Their work was very
important. 3. Many frontier women were also hunters. 4. Those days
seem distant to us today. 5. Later, factory and office jobs became
possible for women.
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- 6. Merchants were eager to sell their goods. 7. A guild was a
group of workers in the same craft. 8. A modern trade union seems
similar to a guild. 9. Workers felt stronger as part of a guild.
10. An apprentice was a beginner in a trade. 11. Apprentices
appeared foolish to their masters. 12. An apprentice became a
journeyman after many years of practice. 13. Masters were
craftspeople with their own shops. 14. Guilds grew very important
in local government. 15. The merchant guilds were powerful
throughout Europe.
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- Helping Verbs These verbs are part of a verb phrase. They come
before the main verb. Helping verbs help state the action or show
time. For example: Kim has passed everyone in the race. We are
decorating the Easter eggs. _______________________
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- Watch out though! Sometimes the words in a verb phrase are
separated.
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- in questions In a question, the subject often comes between
words in the verb phrase. For example: Do the candidates plan to
debate? Heres a hint to help-Change the question to a statement.
This will put the verb phrase together. The candidates do plan to
debate. ____ _______ ____________ ______________ _______________
SEE!!
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- and by negatives, etc. The negative not can also come between
words in a verb phrase. For example: Some of the people will not
see it. Other words like always and never are also not ever part of
a verb phrase!!! The Supreme Court has not always had nine
justices. _____________ _____ ___________________________
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- Helping verb/verb phrase practice: Underline the subject once
and verb phrase twice. *Remember some of the phrases might be
separated. 1. We have been learning about the election process. 2.
2. U.S. voters have always voted by secret ballot. 3. Each citizen
over the age of eighteen can vote. 4. The candidates must explain
their ideas to the voters. 5. Voters must get information about the
candidates. 6. Each person will vote for his or her preferred
candidates. 7. The Presidents inauguration will happen in
January.
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- 8. Our teacher has assigned homework about past Presidents. 9.
Students are researching on the internet. 10. Our school is not
holding a mock election this year. 11. In the late 1800s, the
United States was becoming a world power. 12. Theodore Roosevelt
had become President in 1901. 13. Before that, he had been governor
of New York State. 14. He had worked as a rancher in the Dakota
Territory. 15. People are still quoting his words about foreign
policy. 16. Roosevelt had also made a name for himself as a nature
lover.
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- Verb Phrases VS. Compound Verbs
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- Verb Phrases A verb phrase is made up of a helping verb(s) and
a main verb. It is basically when the verb in the sentence is more
than one word, it can be two or even three words together. For
example: She is helping her friend move. *Notice that the subject
is only doing one thing, but that one thing is more than one word
long. _____________________
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- Compound Verbs A compound verb is when there is more than one
verb in a sentence. For example: She helped her friends move and
ate dinner with them. *Notice in this sentence the subject is doing
two separate actions. _________________ ____
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- Can you have both? Look at this sentence. It has a compound
verb of verb phrases!!! I was reading very intently, and I didnt
hear the teacher call my name! *Notice that the word didnt is short
for did not, so make sure to leave that out of your verb phrase!
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