Grammar and Prepositional Phrases

What is the subject?

Mom baked a cake today?

• cake

• today

• baked

• Mom

What is the predicate?

Cruz and Elias rode their skateboards.

• Cruz and Elias

• rode their skateboards

• their

Find the predicate.

My friends are taking guitar lessons.

• guitar lessons.

• are taking

• are taking guitar lessons.

Find the subject.

Josh looked out the window to check the sky.

• Josh

• Josh looked

• the window

• the sky

names a person, place, thing, or idea

• noun

• common noun

• proper noun

• concrete noun

• abstract noun

the name of a specific person, place, thing, or idea; are capitalized

• noun

• common noun

• proper noun

• concrete noun

• abstract noun

a word that shows action or links a subject to another word

• verb

• action verb

• linking verb

• helping verb

What is a preposition?

• A place holder word

• A word that shows the relationship between nouns

• A word that modifies adjectives, adverbs, or nouns

• An action word

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• Petey my pet snake has only bitten one person.
• Petey, my pet snake, has only bitten one person.
• Petey, my pet snake has only bitten one person.
• Petey my pet snake, has only bitten one person.

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• We decided to eat at Olive Garden my favorite restaurant.
• We decided to eat at, Olive Garden, my favorite restaurant.
• We decided to eat at Olive Garden, my favorite restaurant.
• We decided, to eat, at Olive Garden my favorite restaurant.