PPT-Subjects and Verbs

Locating Subjects and Verbs To avoid writing a fragment look for the subject and verb in a sentence To find the subject ask Which word tells what or who this sentence is about . Brushup. John . Langan. & Janet M. Goldstein. Subjects & Verbs. The . subject. of a sentence is the person, thing, or idea that the sentence is about.. The . verb . explains what the sentence says about the subject. . Simple Subjects & Predicates. Every sentence has two parts: a subject and a predicate.. The subject tells whom or what the sentence is about.. The predicate tells what the subject is or does or what happens to the subject.. 1.) Many examples that he talks about (is/are) on culture.. 2.) The tornadoes that tear through this county every spring (is/are) more than just a nuisance. . 3.) Every student in all the high schools (is/are). the subjects (s), verbs (v), objects of verbs (o), and prepositional phrases (PP)in the following sentencesA transitive verb (vt) is followed by an object, whereas intransitive verbs (vi) are not fol , . Predicates. , & . Objects. Sentence Structure Lesson. Warm. . up. What makes a sentence . complete. ?. What makes a sentence . incomplete. ?. Subjects. Nouns. and . pronouns. that take . verbs. Irregular Verbs. Subject and Verb agreement. Principal Parts of Verbs. Verb. Present Participle. Past. Past Participle. Walk. Is walking. Walked. Has walked. Live. Is living. Lived. Has lived. Try. Is trying. Fragment—no subject. Felt happy and relaxed.. Sentence:. I felt happy and relaxed.. Fragment—no predicate (verb). The sign in the rehearsal hall.. Sentence:. The sign in the rehearsal hall indicated the audition results.. Verb. Bellowed, bellows, bellowing. To roar or make a sound like a roar. Daredevil . bellowed. in fury after . Bullseye. killed his cat.. botch. Verb. Botched, botches, botching. To mess up something/do something poorly. ONe. amiss. Adjective. “Not as it should be”. I could tell something was . amiss. when my dog would not stop barking at the door.. aspire. Verb (aspires, aspired, aspiring). To seek to achieve something. Linking Verbs. Transitive/Intransitive Verbs. . Verbs. ‘I Cans’ and Essential Questions. ‘I Cans’. Use verbs (perfect tenses, transitive and intransitive, and linking verbs) in my writing.. Explain why a writer chooses a particular verb(s) in their writing.. Action and Linking Verbs. Verbs can work in two ways: . Action verbs show action:. We . walk. to the store every Tuesday.. The children . ran. to South Beach.. There can be more than one verb in a sentence:. Adept (at). Means “skilled” or “good at something”. Adjective. After many hours of practice, I was finally . adept at . juggling.. Insinuate. Means “to suggest without actually saying”. Verb. CAS LX 500A1. Topics in Linguistics: Language Acquisition. Syntax 101. Initially, children start off producing basically one-word utterances.. Though not impossible (comprehension), it is difficult to conclude much about syntactic knowledge at this stage. . Andrea A. Lunsford. Third-person singular subjects . To make a verb in the present tense agree with a third-person singular subject, add –s or –. es. to the base form.. A vegetarian diet . lowers.