On the front porch, she grabbed my wrist; I almost jumped out of my skin.

Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian (2009)

Invitation to Notice: What do you see with your reader’s eyes? What do you see with your writer’s eyes?

Parts of Speech

• Nouns= 4 Gerund= 0• Pronouns= 4 Participle= 0• Verbs= 2 Infinitive= 0• Prepositions= 2 Article= 1• Adjectives= 1• Adverbs= 2• Conjunction= 0

On the front porch, she grabbed my wrist; I almost jumped out of my skin.

Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian (2009)

Wednesday Directions: Research in the pink pages and find the part of speech for each word in the sentence.

Prep art adjCn, sg, op

Nom pronAv, past

Poss pron

Cn, sgNom pron

adv Av, past

adv prepPoss pron

Cn, sg, op

Parts of the Sentence

• Subject = 2• Predicate = 2• Simple Subject = 2• Simple Predicate = 2• Complements (DO, IO, predicate nominative,

predicate adjective) = 3• Appositive = 0• Objects (of prep, infinitive, gerund) = 2• Phrases (prep, gerund, participle, infinitive) = 2

(On the front porch), she grabbed my wrist; I almost jumped out (of my skin).

Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian (2009)

Thursday Directions: Research in the pink pages and identify the parts of a sentence.

Object of prep

Transitive verb

Direct object

Intransitive verb

OP

sssp

ss sp

Clauses, Sentence Type/Purpose

• Clauses (independent or dependent?)• Sentence Type (Simple, Compound, Complex,

Compound Complex)• Sentence Purpose (Declarative, Imperative,

Exclamatory, Interrogative)

On the front porch, <she grabbed my wrist>; <I almost jumped out of my skin>.

Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian (2009)

Friday Directions: Research and identify the clauses and sentence purpose/type

IC

IC

DeclarativeCompound

On the edge of the pool, she shoved me over; I screamed loudly at the shock.

Mrs. Garrison, 2010

Your turn! Imitate the sentence we’ve been working with all week.