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Grammar, Usage and Mechanics

Grammar, Usage and Mechanics. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its Parts. Here’s the Idea. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its Parts Lesson 1- Complete Subjects & Predicates. Sentence: A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Sentence.

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Grammar, Usage and Mechanics

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  1. Grammar, Usage and Mechanics Chapter 1: The sentence and Its Parts

  2. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 1- Complete Subjects & Predicates • Sentence: A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Sentence

  3. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 1- Complete Subjects & Predicates • Complete Sentence has two parts: • Complete Subject: Includes all the words that tell whom or what the sentence is about. • Complete Predicate: Includes the verb and all the words that tell about the verb.

  4. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 2- Simple Subjects • Simple Subject: Is the main word or words in the complete subject.

  5. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 3- Simple Predicates, or Verbs • Simple Predicate: Is the main word or words in the complete predicate. • Verb: Is a word used to express an action, a condition, or a state of being. • Linking Verb: tells what the subject is. • Action Verb: tells what the subject does, even when the action cannot be seen.

  6. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 4- Verb Phrases • Verb Phrases: Is made up of a main verb and one or more helping verbs.

  7. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 5- Compound Sentence Parts • Compound Subject: Is made up of two or more subjects and share the same verb. • Compound Verb: Is made up of two or more verbs that share the same subject.

  8. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences • A sentence can be used to make a statement, ask a question, make a request, or show strong feeling. • Four Kinds of Sentences: • Declarative • Interrogative • Imperative • Exclamatory

  9. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences A declarative sentence makes a statement.

  10. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences A declarative sentence always ends with a period. I see something weird in that tree. It looks like a gray basketball.

  11. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences An interrogative sentence asks a question.

  12. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences An interrogative sentence always ends with a question mark. What do you think it is? Is it a hornet’s nest?

  13. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something.

  14. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences An imperative sentence makes a request or gives a command. It usually ends with a period, but it may end with an exclamation point. Please don’t get too close to it. Be careful!

  15. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling.

  16. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences An exclamatory sentence always ends with an exclamation point. I see hornets flying out! I’m getting out of here!

  17. LITERARY MODEL INTERROGATIVE IMPERATIVE DECLARATIVE Why It Matters Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences Scrooge: . . .Come, come, what is it you want? Don’t waste all day, Nephew. Fred: I only want to wish you a Merry Christmas, Uncle. Don’t be cross. —Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  18. 1. I found an amusing story in a book of folk humor. Practice and Apply Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences Identify the following sentence as declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative.

  19. 2. Was it about a well-known judge who lived in China? Practice and Apply Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences Identify the following sentence as declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative.

  20. 3. That’s the one! Practice and Apply Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 6- Kinds of Sentences Identify the following sentence as declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative.

  21. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 7- Subjects in Unusual Order • In most questions, the subject comes after the verb or between parts of the verb phrase. • The subject of a command, or Imperative sentence, is usually you. • In some sentences beginning with here or there, the subject follows the verb.

  22. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 8- Complements: Subject Complements • Complement: Is a word or a group of words that completes the meaning of a verb. • Two kinds of Complements- • Subject Complements: Is a word of group of words that follows a linking verb and renames or describes the subject.

  23. Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 9- Complements: Objects of Verbs • Two Kinds of Complements- • Subject Complements • Objects of Verbs • Direct object: is a word or group of words that names the receiver of the action. • Indirect object: is a word or group of words that tells to whom or what and action is performed.

  24. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 10- Fragments and Run-Ons Sentence fragments and run-on sentences are writing errors that can make your writing difficult to understand.

  25. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 10- Fragments and Run-Ons • Sentence Fragment: Is part of a sentence that is written as if it were a complete sentence. • A sentence fragment might be missing a subject. To correct it, add a subject.

  26. Here’s the Idea Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 10- Fragments and Run-Ons • Run-On Sentence: Is two or more sentences written as though they were a single sentence. • Fragments and run-on sentences can make your writing confusing and difficult to read.

  27. 4. Are cartoons that tell a story. Practice and Apply Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 10- Fragments and Run-Ons Rewrite the following fragment as a complete sentence.

  28. 5. Included Superman, Dick Tracy, and Little Orphan Annie. Practice and Apply Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 10- Fragments and Run-Ons Rewrite the following fragment as a complete sentence.

  29. 6. The boxes with the scenes are called panels, the spaces with the dialogue are called speech balloons. Practice and Apply Chapter 1: The sentence and Its PartsLesson 10- Fragments and Run-Ons Correct this run-on sentence.

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