Exploring Subjects and Verbs

The video tutorial covers the essential elements of sentences: subjects and verbs. It explains the role of subjects as the doers in sentences and how verbs describe actions or states of being. The tutorial distinguishes between action verbs and state of being verbs, including linking and helping verbs. It provides methods to identify verbs and discusses compound subjects and verbs, emphasizing the use of conjunctions. The video concludes with practice exercises to reinforce learning.

What is the subject in the sentence 'Our soccer team won the state championship'?

• Championship

• Team

• State

• Soccer

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CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

Which question helps identify the subject in a sentence?

• Who or what did something?

• Where did it happen?

• Why did it happen?

• When did it happen?

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

What does a verb tell us about the subject?

• Its color

• Its action or state of being

• Its location

• Its size

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Which of the following is an action verb?

• Is

• Seems

• Run

• Are

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

What is the function of a linking verb?

• To negate the sentence

• To show action

• To link the subject to a word that renames or describes it

• To indicate time

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Which of the following is a helping verb?

• Run

• Never

• Is

• Quickly

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

In the sentence 'Mike is writing', what is the helping verb?

• Mike

• Is

• None

• Writing

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

How can you test if a word is a verb?

• By placing a pronoun in front of it

• By checking if it ends with 'ing'

• By seeing if it describes a noun

• By checking if it starts with 'to'

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Which of the following is NOT a verb?

• To sing

• Jump

• Quickly

• Running

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CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

What indicates a compound subject in a sentence?

• A question mark

• A conjunction like 'and'

• A comma

• A period

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CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I