Unit 1 - Grammar

What is a subject?

• The part of the sentence that is doing or being the action.

• The part of the sentence that is receiving the action

What is the simple subject

• The phrase that represents the subject.

• 
  The one word that represents the subject.

What is the predicate of a sentence?

• Tells what the subject is or does (the action).

• Who or what the sentence is about.

What is the simple predicate of a sentence?

• The one word that describes the verb.

• The phrase that describes the verb.

Subject or predicate?

Sarah went to the store.

• Predicate

• Subject

Subject or Predicate?

The horse ran through the field.

• Predicate

• Subject

Find the dependent clause:

You should work until the sun sets.

• You should work

• the sun sets

• work until the sun sets

• until the sun sets

The purpose of an adjective is to

• signal a verb

• describe action

• none of these

• describe a noun

The purpose of an adverb is to

• describe a verb, (and sometimes an adjective, or other adverb)

• none of these

• signal an article

• signal a noun

Which word is an adjective: A soaking rain watered the flowers.

• watered

• rain

• soaking

• flowers