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4 Types of Sentences
Declarative sentences - make a statement and end with a period.
Interrogative sentences - ask a question and end with a question mark.
Imperative sentences - make a request or command you what to do,
and end with a period.
Exclamatory sentences - show strong feeling and end with an exclamation point.
Ask your child to sing you the song, "Make Your Mark!"
Practice identifying and punctuating at the Grammar Practice Park.
Verbs
Action Verbs - word that tells what the subject of a sentence does, did, or will do.
Linking Verbs - connects or links, the subject of a sentence to words in the predicate.
"Be" Verbs - most common form of linking verb.
Main Verb - tells what the action is & Helping Verbs - works with the main verb to tell more about an action. It always comes before the main verb.
Have a blast identifying the verbs!
or
Go for Grammar Gold!
Identify action, linking and be verbs.
A carnival is no fun in the dark.
Turn on the lights by identifying the
correct forms of verbs - main, helping or contractions!
Complete and Simple Subjects
The complete subject is what or who the sentence is about.
Ask yourself: Who or What is doing the action?
The simple subject is usually a noun in the complete subject.
We have been practicing finding and circling the verb, then underlining the complete subject once, and underlining the simple subject twice.
Compound Subjects
Students practice combining two sentences to create a compound subject.
Example: Rain ruined our picnic. Ants ruined our picnic.
Rain or ants ruined our picnic.
Complete and Simple Predicates
The complete predicate includes all of the words that tell what the subject of the sentence is or does.
The simple predicate is the main word or words in the complete predicate of the sentence.
Ask: What is the verb?
Compound Predicates
Students practice combining two sentences to create a compound predicate.
Example: We read about firefighting.
We learned what firefighters do.
We read and learned about firefighting and what they do.
Links
Prepositions
Students are learning to identify prepositions in a sentence and
use them in their writing to build and stretch their sentences.
