Wednesday, September 3, 2014
1. Write homework in your planner.
Turn to the Warm Up section of your binder; title the first page: Warm
Up Week One
2.
The tense of a verb indicates the time of the action or state of
being expressed by the verb. Examples:
Present Tense I give
Present Perfect Tense I have given
Past Tense
Future Tense
I gave
I will give
Past Perfect Tense
Future Perfect Tense
I had given
I will have given
The progressive form of each tense expresses continuing action or
state of being. It consists of a form of the verb "be" plus the
present participle of a verb. Example:
The candidates will be giving their speeches Friday. (future progressive)
PRACTICE!
1. Write the verb in each of the following sentences.
2. Identify its tense.
3. Indicate if the verb is in the progressive form.
1. Has the waiter brought your water yet?
2. Today, we will be meeting the President of the United States.
3. We had sent the package by airmail.
4. By next Friday, we will have finished the book.
5. I enjoy eating breakfast.
ANSWERS!
1. Has the waiter brought your water yet? (Present Perfect)
(Future Progressive)
2. Today, we will be meeting the President of the United States.
3. We had sent the package by airmail.(Past Perfect)
4. By next Friday, we will have finished the book.(Future Perfect)
5. I enjoy eating breakfast. (Present)
Thursday, September 4, 2014
1. Write homework in your planner.
2. Open binder to your Warm Up page and complete the Warm Up.
This year, you will learn 10 sentence patterns beginning with the most
basic, and practice those patterns in warm ups and in your own
writing.
Copy the following notes.
Sentence Pattern 1:Compound Sentence: Semicolon, no conjunction
(two short, related sentences now joined)
Pattern:
S V;S V
Example: Hard work is only one side of the equation; talent is the other.
3
Write a sentence using Pattern 1.