Welcome to Class

1. Welcome to Class • Flashback! Let’s see what you remember about verbs. • Complete Workbook Page 50 to review the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.

2. Complements • A word or word group that completes the meaning of a verb. • Direct Objects • Indirect Objects • Predicate Nominatives • Predicate Adjectives

3. Linking Verbs • Connects or links the subject to a word or word group that identifies the subject. • Be • Appear • Become • Feel • Seem • Remain • Taste

4. Transitive Verbs • A transitive verb expresses an action directed toward a person, place, things, or idea. Examples: Visit Write Learn Study Make Help

5. Objects and Subject Complements • Objects (Direct and Indirect) follow a transitive verb. • Subject Complements (Predicate Nominative and Predicate Adjective) follow a linking verb.

6. Let’s Try it Out

7. Types of Objects • Direct Object • A noun, pronoun, or word group that tells who or what receives the action of the verb. • It always comes after a transitive verb. Indirect Object A noun, pronoun, or word group that usually comes between the verb and the direct object. It tells to whom or to what or for whom or for what the action of the verb is done.

8. Check it out • Easy Courtney passed the book

9. Check it out • Sort of easy I need flour, eggs, and milk.

10. Check it out • Tough Best Buy offers many sales the day after Thanksgiving.

11. Check it out • Tougher Please clean the floor with a large broom.

12. Check it out • Pretty darn Tough My hamster eats his food quickly.

13. Check it out • Extremely Tough Henrietta learned more in that class than the first class.