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7 th Grade Bellringers 56-60

November 26-30. 7 th Grade Bellringers 56-60. BR #56 November 26, 2012. In your own words, what is a subject and a predicate? What are complete, compound, and simple subjects and predicates? Create three complete sentences and underline the subjects and predicates in each.

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7 th Grade Bellringers 56-60

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  1. November 26-30 7th Grade Bellringers 56-60

  2. BR #56 November 26, 2012 • In your own words, what is a subject and a predicate? What are complete, compound, and simple subjects and predicates? • Create three complete sentences and underline the subjects and predicates in each.

  3. BR #56November 26, 2012 • Using your past Bellringers, write down Punctuation Rules #1-10. You do not have to write the examples.

  4. BR #57November 27, 2012 • Write the following sentences on your paper. Underline the subject once and the predicate twice. Circle the simple subject and simple predicate in each sentence. • 1. Whales are mammals. • 2. People have hunted whales since prehistoric times. • 3. Can a whale produce sounds undrewater? • 4. Some whales are one hundred feet long. • 5. Size varies within species.

  5. BR #59November 29, 2012 • Simple and Compound Sentences: • A simple sentence has one subject and one predicate. • EX: Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring. • A simple sentence may have a compound subject, a compound predicate, or both as in the following example. • EX: Alexis and Zeely read and study books.

  6. BR #60November 30, 2012 • A compound sentence is a sentence that contains two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon. Examples of coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, nor, for, and yet. • A compound sentence has two complete subjects and two complete predicates. • EX: Ecologists study nature, and rangers protect it. • EX: Some problems arise in forest environments; ecologists develop solutions to these problems. • Underline the subjects and predicates in the sentences above.

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