subject and predicate, concord

Advertisements, language structures and conventions

Advertisements

an advertisement is a notice or an announcement in a public medium such as television, radio, newspaper and magazine.

The purpose of an advertisement is to promote a product, service, event or job vacancy.

Advertisers use techniques to get consumers to buy products

the techniques that they use are colorful and bold fonts to capture the attention of the consumer. They use promotions such as buy one get one free to seem as if they are talking directly to the person watching or listening to them.

Language structures and conventions

• A sentence should have a verb and a subject

• The verb and object together are called a predicate

• transitive verbs are actions done to an object

• Intransitive verbs are actions that are not done to an object

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence and identify the subject and predicate.

Some interested parents came to watch their children play soccer.

• subject-parents; predicate- children

• subject-some interested parents; predicate- watch

• subject- parents; predicate- play

• subject-some interested parents; predicate- came to watch their children

Multiple Select

What are some of the techniques that advertisers use?

• buy one get one free

• bold font

• tone of voice

• colorful pictures

Multiple Choice

what are intransitive verbs?

• actions that are done to an object

• actions that are not done to an object

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