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Grammar Pg 24-31 Flashcards

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1
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What is the subject in the sentence

Jim is nice

A

Jim

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Simple subject

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Only who or what the subject is about

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Simple subject

A happy miss Levin spoke with great passion about grammar

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Miss Levin

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4
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Complete subject

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All the compliments and modifiers plus a subject

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Complete subject

A Happy miss Levin spoke with great passion about grammar

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Happy miss Levin

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Predicate

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Tells what the subject does (verb)

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Simple predicate

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The verb or verb phrase

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Simple predicate

A happy miss Levin spoke with great passion about grammar

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Spoke

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Complete predicate

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The complete sentence, excluding the complete subject

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Complete predicate

A happy miss Levin spoke with great passion about grammar

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Spoke with great passion about grammar

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Linking verbs

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Links a subject of the sentence to a word in the predicate

Don’t show actions. Come from “to be” am, is, are, was, were, be, been

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Linking verb

Jim was class president

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Was

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Predicate nominatives

Noun

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Word in the predicate that renames the subject

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Predicate nominatives

Miss levin is a teacher

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Teacher

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Predicate adjective’s

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Word in the predicate that describes the subject

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Predicate adjective’s

Miss Levin is sad

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Sad

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Action verbs

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Verbs that show in action. May take direct or indirect objects. Not every action verb has a direct or indirect object

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Action verbs

  • Miss Levin drove to school
  • miss Levin wrote a letter
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Drove

Wrote

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Direct object

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Receives the action of the verb

20
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Direct object

Jim hit Charlie

A

Charlie

21
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Indirect object

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To whom or for whom or two what or for what the action is intended. Indirect objects never have to or for in front of them

22
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Indirect object

Meteorologists give hurricane names

A

Hurricanes names

Names= direct /hurricanes= indirect

23
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Subject

A

Who or what the sentences about

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