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| sentence | a group of words telling a complete thought |
| declarative sentence | states a fact & is followed by a period (The girl rode her bike) |
| interrogative sentence | asks a question & is followed by a question mark (Where is my wallet?) |
| imperative sentence | expresses a command or makes a request. It's followed by a period. (Joe, shut the door.) |
| exclamatory sentence | expresses a strong feeling or surprise followed by an exclamation mark! (What an exciting day we had!) |
| What is a sentence made up of? | A subject and predicate (2 parts) |
| subject of a sentence | tells whom or what the sentence is about (the man walked home. 'man') |
| predicate of a sentence | tells what the subject is or does (mom cooked supper. 'cooked' |
| simple sentence | contains one subject & one predicate (Rose likes ice cream.) |
| compound subject | if the subject in the sentence has more than 1 noun or pronoun (The boy and girl went to the office) |
| compound predicate | has more than one verb. eg. Jim played and sang a song. |
| noun | a person, place or thing. These are common nouns: ball, girl |
| proper noun | names a particular person, place or thing & is always capitalized. eg. John, Cuba |
| singular noun | tells about 1 person, place or thing. ex. boy |
| plural noun | tells about more than 1 person, place, or thing. |
| possessive noun | shows ownership by adding 's to the noun. boy's hat |
| plural possessive noun | add 's to the singular fom. boys', dogs' |
| verb | shows action - run or being-is. |
| helping verb | verb used with another verb- is watching |
| regular past tense verb | add 'ed'- walked |
| irregular verb | does not form its past tense by adding d or ed- eg. rode |
| linking veb | links or connects the subject with a noun, pronoun, or adjective. am, is are, was, were, will be |
| past tense | shows an action has happened. Mary skated. |
| future tense | shows an action that will happen. Mary will skate. |
| pronoun | takes the place of a noun. "He" is tired. |
| singular pronoun | takes the place of singular noun. I, me you, he, she, it, him, her |
| plural pronoun | takes the place of a plural noun. we, us, you, they, them |
| subject pronouns | takes the place of a noun(s) in the subject of the sent. I, you,he, she it we, you , they. |
| object pronouns | me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them. |
| possessive pronouns | show possession or ownership by the speaker, person or thing spoken to. |
| singular possessive pronoun | eg. My book is lost. (my, your, his, her) |
| plural possessive pronoun | Those books are ours. (ours, yours, theirs) |
| reflexive pronoun | myself, yourself, himself, etc. I can do it myself |
| conjunction | word used to connect words or group of words (and, or, but) |
| adjectives | describes a noun or pronoun & is usually before the noun. The 'small' baby cried. |
| adverbs | describes a verb, adjective or adverb & answers the ? when, where, how. The boy spoke 'clearly'. |
| adverbs of time | answer the question when or how often. Sue will go to school 'today'. |
| adverbs of place | answers the question where. Joe put the book 'away'. |
| adverbs of manner | answer the ? how or in what manner. Bill worked 'carefully'. |
| adverbs have 3 degress of comparison | compare by adding 'er', 'est, or using 'more' or 'less'. |
| direct object | receives the 'object' of the verb. A dog chased a rabbit. |
| contraction | a shortened form of 2 words. cannot-can't |
