Noun
A person, place, thing, animal, or idea.
(Ex. – girl, school, book, dog, freedom)
Proper Noun
A specific person, place, thing, animal, or idea.
(Ex. – Cara, Hayes Elementary, Amelia’s Notebook, Rover)
Pronoun
Takes the place of a noun
(Ex. – I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them)
Verb
Shows an action or a state of being
Action Verb Examples
Present Tense:
run, jump, swim
Past Tense:
ran, jumped, swam
Future Tense:
will run, will jump, will swim
State of Being Verb Examples
am, is, are
was, were
be, being, been
Subject
Who or what does or is something
Ex. – My mother baked cookies for my friends.
My teacher is a very nice person.
Predicate
What the person did or what they are
Ex. – My mother baked cookies for my friends.
My teacher is a very nice person.
The noun in the subject and the verb in the predicate
must agree in number.
Correct Agreement Examples:
The dog digs under the fence.
The monkeys swing from the vines.
Incorrect Agreement Examples:
The dog dig under the fence.
The monkeys swings from the vines.
Every sentence must begin with a capital letter and end with
appropriate punctuation (. ? !)
A complete sentence must have a subject and a predicate.
An incomplete sentence is missing a subject or a predicate.
A compound sentence is 2 complete sentences joined together by a
coordinating conjunction.
A coordinating conjunction is a word that connects 2 things in a
sentence. (The “FANBOYS”)
FOR
AND
The Problem Finder
The Matchmaker
Connects a solution
with a problem
Connects two ideas that go
together
BUT
King Conflict
Connects two ideas that
go against each other
NOR
Mr. Negative
Negative form of or
OR
YET
SO
The Decision
Maker
But’s Evil Twin
Brother
The Problem
Solver
Connects two choices
Connects two ideas that
go against each other
Connects a problem
with a result
Simple Sentence Pattern
Subject Predicate.
Simple Sentence Examples:
The baby cries.
The children play tag.
My cat is playful and funny.
The students were doing their homework.
Compound Sentence Pattern
For
And
Subject Predicate ,
Nor
But
Subject Predicate .
Or
Yet
So
Compound Sentence Examples:
The teacher read the story, and the students wrote a response.
The baby bird’s wings grew strong, so it flew away from the nest.
I wanted to play with my friend, but he wasn’t home.
You can swing on the swings, or you can play soccer in the field.