Lesson 6

1. Lesson 6 Compound Subjects and Predicates

2. Identify the predicates in the sentences pairs and tell if the predicates are the same. • If the predicates are the same, combine the sentences by creating a compound subject. • Identify the coordinating conjunction you used to combine the subjects.

3. Ben and his younger brother are feeding the chickens. conjunction = and Ben and Katie could milk the cow. conjunction = and John and Carlos ran fast. conjunction = and My best friend and her neighbor fed the lost dog. conjunction = and Tran, Lin, and Roberto won medals at the soccer competition. My aunt, uncle, grandmother, and grandfather came to visit us.

4. Combine sentences to complete each pair of sentence frames. • Juan sings. Dana sings. Lou sings. • _________________ sing. • Lee and Joe run. Tony runs. • _________________ run.

5. Molly sings and dances. Peter fed the chickens and milked the cows. The oxen walked slowly yesterday and ran away today. Juan plays baseball, sings in the choir, and gets good grades. Tom and I will go to the store now and wait until later.

6. Identify the predicates in the following sentences.

7. Combine the following sentences. • Julie reads quickly. Julie writes well. • Lou hops. Lou skips. Lou jumps.

8. Writing • Write a paragraph about a day on the prairie. • Include several sentences with compound subjects and predicates.

9. Rewrite the following sentences using the correctly punctuated compound subject or predicate in parentheses. • The kittens (ran, jumped) (ran and jumped). • (Ben, Tina and I) (Ben, Tina, and I) talked together. • The dancer (twirled, leaped, and spun) (twirled leaped, and spun).

12. The End!!!