Simple Sentence Review

Simple Sentence Review

Thursday 9/22​

Do Now

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Open Ended

Write a complete sentence about your favorite food.

SENTENCE STEM: My favorite food is ___________________.

Parts of Speech

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Noun

A person, place, thing, or idea.

Examples: boy, girl, dog, cat, car, boat, school, student, teacher

In a sentence: The clever STUDENT studied diligently.

Verb

Verbs show action or a state of being.

Examples: run, jump, eat, sleep, be, study, speak, joke, lie, love, drink, choose

In a sentence: The clever student STUDIED diligently.

Adjective

Adjectives describe nouns.

Examples: smart, silly, tall, short, good, bad, funny, annoying, wonderful

In a sentence: The CLEVER student studied diligently.

Adverbs

Adverbs describe or modify verbs.

Examples: quickly, slowly, sloppily, clumsily

In a sentence: The clever student studied DILIGENTLY.

Multiple Choice

A(n) ________ shows action or a state of being.

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

Multiple Choice

A(n) __________ is a person, place, thing, or idea.

• noun

• verb

• adverb

• adjective

Multiple Choice

A(n) __________ describes a VERB (action word).

• adverb

• adjective

Multiple Choice

A(n) ___________ describes a NOUN (person, place, thing, or idea).

• adverb

• adjective

Multiple Choice

Which is a NOUN?

• baseball

• throw

• swing

• run

Multiple Choice

Which is a VERB?

• Molly

• desk

• jump

• school

Multiple Choice

Which is an adjective?

• car

• fast

• drive

• quickly

Multiple Choice

Which is an adverb?

• high

• low

• fast

• quickly

Parts of a Sentence

The Subject

The subject is WHO or WHAT the sentence is about. The subject is ALWAYS a NOUN.

IN A SENTENCE: The clever STUDENT studied diligently.

The Predicate

The predicate is the action in a sentence, or what happens. The predicate is ALWAYS a VERB.

In a sentence: The clever student STUDIED diligently.

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech is the SUBJECT?

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech is the PREDICATE?

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Multiple Choice

What is the predicate in the following sentence?

The student ran to his locker.

• The

• student

• ran

• locker

Multiple Choice

What is the predicate in the following sentence?

The class takes a quiz.

• class

• takes

• a

• quiz

Multiple Choice

What is the subject in the following sentence?

The class takes a quiz

• class

• takes

• a

• quiz

Multiple Choice

What is the predicate in the following sentence?

Poetry connects to our lives.

• Poetry

• connects

• our

• lives

Multiple Choice

Find the subject: John looked out of the window to check the sky.

• John

• looked

• out

• the window

Multiple Choice

The cow jumped over the moon.

What is the subject of this sentence?

• cow

• moon

• jumped

• over

Multiple Choice

The cow jumped over the moon.

What is the predicate of this sentence?

• cow

• moon

• jumped

• over

Sentence Capitalization

The first letter of EVERY sentence must be CAPITALIZED.

RIGHT: She swam quickly.

WRONG: she swam quickly.

Punctuation in a Sentence

EVERY sentence must be properly punctuated.

RIGHT: I drank a tall glass of water.

WRONG: I drank a tall glass of water

ALSO WRONG: I drank a tall glass of water?

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is properly capitalized?

• pie is my favorite dessert.

• pie is MY favorite dessert.

• pIe Is mY fAvOrItE DESSERT

• Pie is my favorite dessert.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is properly punctuated?

• Pie is my favorite dessert

• Pie is my favorite desssert.

• Pie is my favorite dessert?

• Pie is my. Favorite. Dessert.

​Sentence Practice

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Open Ended

Write a complete sentence about something you like to do.

Make sure it has a SUBJECT, a PREDICATE, and is a COMPLETE IDEA.

Make sure to properly CAPITALIZE your sentence.

Make sure to properly PUNCTUATE your sentence.

SENTENCE STEM: One thing I like to do is ____________________.