1 week to write a cheatsheet must be checked in w/ Tosspon

Vocabulary (Commonly confused words) What are the MOST COMMON words

on the list?

There, Their, They’re Too, two, To

Identify Sentence vs FragmentChpt 5 To be a sentence it needs:

Subject (who/what is doing the action) Verb (the action) A complete thought.

Watch out for those prepositional phrases! Prepositional phrases can NEVER have the

subject or the verb!

Steps to find the SubjectChpt 3 Cross out Prepositions/Prepositional

Phrase Cross out THERE/WHERE/HERE Look for the VERB (ACTION)

If the verb starts the sentence, is it a command? If so, the subject is YOU!!!!! You have to write it in!

Ask “who is doing that action”? Then ask, “Can this item/person

REALLY do this action?”

Finding the Subject

Just figure out what the ACTION is and Who/What is performing it!

Mr. Morton!http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/

Grammar+Rocks!#Subject Remember that finding the subject of

the sentence isn’t too bad!

Run-ons (Pg 145, Chpt 8) Run-ons are independent clauses that

have been combined incorrectly. There are several types:

The AND run-on (1 and per sentence!) The Fused run-on The comma splice

We will be going into detail on each one

The and run on (pg 146)

The AND run-on: two or more relatively long independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction without any punctuation.

I met Charlyce in a yoga class a the YWCA

and we liked each other immediately and we soon became friends and we often hang out at each other’s houses.

The Fused run on (pg 146) The Fused run-on : two or more

independent clauses run together without any punctuation.

I met Charlyce in a yoga class at the YWCA we soon became friends.

Comma Splice Run on The comma-splice run-on : two or more

independent clauses run together only a comma.

I met Charlyce in a yoga class at the YWCA, we soon became friends.

Combine correctly:Comma + Coordinating conjunctionSemicolon (;)Period (separate entirely)Semicolon + Adverbial conjunction + Comma(…YWCA; therefore, we…

Parts of Speech – particularly thePreposition (pg 41!!!!!)

Pg 41 Video -

http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/Grammar+Rocks%21#Prepositions

Over the rainbow.

Nouns

Video:http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/Grammar+Rocks%21#Noun

Nouns are People Places Things Ideas

They CAN be the subject of the sentence, but a sentence can have more nouns than just the subject

Finding Nouns – ways to categorize

•ConcreteName things we can

see or touch• Face• People• Jewelry

Watch

Abstract Things we cannot see or touch

Loneliness

Patriotism

Beauty

Time

Common Name general things

(not capitalized) aunt country watch

Proper Name particular persons,

places, or things (caps) Aunt Meriam Nigeria Timex

Take out the handout and fill in what you know about nouns, pronouns, & prepositions

Next we’ll watch the videos for Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, and Interjections

Those parts of speech

PronounsLink: http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/Grammar+Rocks%21#Pronoun

Describe nouns

http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/Grammar+Rocks%21#Adjectives

Adjectives

Describe Verbs or adjectives

http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/Grammar+Rocks%21#Adverbs

Adverbs

For And Nor But Or Yet So

http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/Grammar+Rocks%21#Conjunctions

Conjunction

Join phrasesclauses

http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/Grammar+Rocks%21#Interjections

Interjections

Prepositions! Pg 41 Show relationships

http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/Grammar+Rocks%21#Prepositions

Prepositions!

Verbs

http://ttosspon.wikispaces.com/Grammar+Rocks%21#Verb

Verbs

Appositive Phrases Appositive phrases are a group of words

that give us extra information about a noun or pronoun in that sentence.

Appositive phrases are set off by commas

The subject is NEVER found within the appositive phrase.

Martin Johnson, the retired salesperson, sat at his desk.

______________________________appositive phrase

Verbs tell time

Test the sentence by adding Today, Yesterday, or tomorrow.

Today she dances. Yesterday she

danced. Tomorrow she will

dance.

How to Find the Verb pg 47

Tells what the subject is doing and when the action occurs.

Examples: Arrive, leave, learn,

write, open, write, teach(pg 48)

The woman studied ballet.

Action Verbs

Links the subject of a sentence to one or more words that describe or identify the subject.

Examples: (see pg 49) Act, appear, become,

feel, get, grow, look, remain, seems, smells, sounds, tastes, turns

Be (am, is, are, was, were, has been, have been)

She seems distracted

Linking Verbs

Combines with a main verb to form a verb phrase. It always comes before the main verb and expresses a special meaning or a particular time.

Examples: (see pg 51) Can, could, may,

might, must, shall, should, will

Being, been, am, is, was, are, were

Has, have, had Does, do, did

He is sleeping He might sleep He should sleep. He could have been

sleeping.

Helping Verbs

The person/thing doing the action

Commands and Requests

In 'commands' and 'requests' the subject is usually not stated. The predicate is the entire sentence. The pronoun 'you' is understood to be the subject. Examples are: Listen! Please see me. Be careful.

[You][You][You]

Questions Questions frequently begin with a verb or a

helping verb or the words 'who, whom, what, when, where, why,or how.' examples are: Did he reply? Have you read Nikki Giovanni's

poetry? What do they sing?

In these cases, the subject generally follows the verb or helping verb.

To find the subject of a question, rearrange the words to form a statement.

Example: He did reply. You have read Nikki Giovanni's poetry. They do sing.

Verb Verb

Verb

Inverted Sentence Order

A sentence written in 'inverted order', in which the predicate comes before the subject, serves to add emphasis to the subject.

Examples are: Under the moonlight sat the old cypress tree. Above the forest circled three hawks.

Verb

Verb

Here and There

The word 'there' or 'here is' is never the subject.

When the word 'there' or 'here' begins a sentence and is followed by a form of the verb 'to be', the subject follows the verb.

Example: Here 'areare' (P) the 'quilts' (S)from my grandma.

Rephrase it!The quilts areare from my grandmother.

Prepositional Phrases

Remember, a word in a prepositional phrase is never the subject.

Prepositions are words that tell where or what kind. Word list on pg 41:

About Behind Except Onto Toward

Above Below For Out Under

Across Beneath From Outside Underneath

After Beside In Over Unlike

Pre-writing techniques

Brainstorm Cluster Outline Freewrite

types of essays/paragraphsKnow the types and how to do them.

You will have 1 paragraph to write

Illustration Narration Description Process Analysis (giving directions)