English Sentence Flashcards
Every Sentence needs 2 parts The Subject and the predicate
The dog (Subject) runs down the street (Predicate)
What is the subject in a sentence
The subject is who or what the sentence is about
What is Subject and what is the predicate
The bear slept in the cave
Adam went to school
The bear ( subject) slept in the cave (predicate)
Adam ( subject) ate pizza( predicate)
What is a noun
A noun is a person, place or thing.
The dog(noun) runs down the street(noun). Dog and street are nouns
Noun Categories
Person ( fireman, bus driver, man)
Place ( NY, USA)
Thing ( pencil, desk)
Animal( dig, bird)
Feeling ( love, hate, anger)
Singular or plural
Apple ( singular) apples ( plural) add s
Fox ( singular) foxes ( plural) add es
Cherry (singular) cherries ( plural) Change to ies
Nouns
Common, proper, or pronoun
Common nouns ( man, women)
Proper nouns (Washington)
Pronouns ( he, she)
A mountain has trees, rivers, and lakes
List the nouns common/proper, singular/plural or a pronoun
Mountain( common, singular)
Trees( common, plural)
Rivers( common, plural)
Lakes( common, plural)
Queen Elizabeth sat on the bench
Common/proper
Singular/plural or pronoun
Queen Elizabeth( proper, singular)
Bench( common, singular)
What is a verb
A verb is used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
Runs is a verb
Verbs can take place in different time periods
Past, present, and future
Simple past, present, and future tenses
For the word talk What is the past present and future
For talk
Past (talked) add ed
Present (talk,talks) unchanged or add es or s
Future ( will talk) add will before the word
Action verbs, helping verbs, model verbs
Action verbs ( running, jumping)
Helping verbs ( she is standing)
Standing is the main Verb
Is the helping verb
He could fly in the morning
He ( subject) could ( model verb)
Fly ( action verb)
Which is the main verb and which is the helping verb
The cat llicks his paws
The cat is licking his paws
The cat licks(main verb)
The cat is(helping verb) licking(main verb)
Exercise what is the verb and what kind of verb
The boy ate the grapes
The boy ate( main verb)
Exercise
What is the verb in the sentence and kind of verb
The bear could be in the cave
Could( modal verb)
Be(main verb)
Transitive Verbs
Monotransitive
Subject + verb + object
Jeff. Kicked. The ball
Ditransitive
Subject+verb+indirect object+ direct object
Jeff. Gave. Dan The cake
What is Direct object what is the indirect object
Jeff(subject) gave(verb) Dan(indirect object) the cake(direct object)
Direct object is receiving the action
Indirect object are effected by the action, and are recipient of the direct object, it is to whom, for whom, or for what
Transitive verbs intransitive verbs
Intransitive verbs has no object
She(subject) cried (verb)
Or She cried at home(prepositional phrase)
He slept after dinner. We are adding to slept the verb. when, where, or how
Linking verbs
Linking verbs is connecting a subject to a noun or to a adjective its not a object it’s a subject complement
Eric( subject) is a (linking verb) Doctor( subject complement)
What are adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives describes the noun
The (brown) dog runs down the (old) street
Adverbs describes a verb
The dog runs ( quickly) down the street
What Determiners what is articles
Determiners adds more details to a sentence,
Articles are a type determines
Articles specify like A, An, The
(The) dog runs down (the) street
(A) dog runs down(A) street
Demonstrateives
Demonstratives are a type of Determiners
Demonstratives show which object is being talked about
This, that, these,
(This) ball is red, (That) ball is blue
Quantifiers
Quantifiers are also Determinter
Quantifiers tells us how much, how many,
(Many) people eat meat, but (some) do not
