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Every Sentence needs 2 parts The Subject and the predicate

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The dog (Subject) runs down the street (Predicate)

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What is the subject in a sentence

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The subject is who or what the sentence is about

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What is Subject and what is the predicate

The bear slept in the cave
Adam went to school

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The bear ( subject) slept in the cave (predicate)

Adam ( subject) ate pizza( predicate)

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What is a noun

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A noun is a person, place or thing.
The dog(noun) runs down the street(noun). Dog and street are nouns

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Noun Categories

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Person ( fireman, bus driver, man)
Place ( NY, USA)
Thing ( pencil, desk)
Animal( dig, bird)
Feeling ( love, hate, anger)

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Singular or plural

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Apple ( singular) apples ( plural) add s
Fox ( singular) foxes ( plural) add es
Cherry (singular) cherries ( plural) Change to ies

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Nouns
Common, proper, or pronoun

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Common nouns ( man, women)
Proper nouns (Washington)
Pronouns ( he, she)

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A mountain has trees, rivers, and lakes

List the nouns common/proper, singular/plural or a pronoun

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Mountain( common, singular)
Trees( common, plural)
Rivers( common, plural)
Lakes( common, plural)

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Queen Elizabeth sat on the bench
Common/proper
Singular/plural or pronoun

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Queen Elizabeth( proper, singular)
Bench( common, singular)

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What is a verb

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A verb is used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

Runs is a verb

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Verbs can take place in different time periods

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Past, present, and future

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Simple past, present, and future tenses
For the word talk What is the past present and future

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For talk
Past (talked) add ed
Present (talk,talks) unchanged or add es or s
Future ( will talk) add will before the word

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Action verbs, helping verbs, model verbs

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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)

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Which is the main verb and which is the helping verb
The cat llicks his paws
The cat is licking his paws

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The cat licks(main verb)
The cat is(helping verb) licking(main verb)

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Exercise what is the verb and what kind of verb
The boy ate the grapes

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The boy ate( main verb)

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Exercise
What is the verb in the sentence and kind of verb

The bear could be in the cave

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Could( modal verb)
Be(main verb)

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Transitive Verbs

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Monotransitive
Subject + verb + object
Jeff. Kicked. The ball
Ditransitive
Subject+verb+indirect object+ direct object
Jeff. Gave. Dan The cake

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What is Direct object what is the indirect object

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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

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Transitive verbs intransitive verbs

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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

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Linking verbs

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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)

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What are adjectives and adverbs

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Adjectives describes the noun
The (brown) dog runs down the (old) street
Adverbs describes a verb
The dog runs ( quickly) down the street

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What Determiners what is articles

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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

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Demonstrateives

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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

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Quantifiers

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Quantifiers are also Determinter
Quantifiers tells us how much, how many,
(Many) people eat meat, but (some) do not

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Determiners Distributives

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Distributives: talks about a ibiut a object in a group
(Every) student will take the the test.
(Each) student will have different questions.

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Describe what these sentences have
The blue sky had grey clouds

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Blue, describing sky Grey, describing clouds are adjectives. The, is an article Describing sky

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Describing sentences

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The(article) child slowly(adverb) finished his homework.
An orange is a fruit. An, A are articles.
This(article) cat is mine, those(demonstratives) cats are yours.
Many( Quantifiers)people, few( quantifiers) people.
Every( distributives) animal is a(article) living thing,

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Each day of the week brings a fun experience

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Each(distributive) the(article) fun(adjective)

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This Bear has long legs. It can walk quickly

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This(demonstrative), long(adjective), quickly(adverb)

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Many people celebrate Christmas every year

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Many(quantifier), every(distributive)