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Phase 2/Unit One October 17, 2012. What is a sentence? What is a complete subject? What is a complete predicate? What is a simple subject? What is a simple predicate?. Activity #1. Text Messages.
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Phase 2/Unit OneOctober 17, 2012 What is a sentence? What is a complete subject? What is a complete predicate? What is a simple subject? What is a simple predicate?
Activity #1 Text Messages
Change these text messages into correctly written sentences that you would turn in to an English teacher for a grade. Add words, punctuation, capitalization, and whatever else you need. train late will be home after 730 at store do we need milk eggs sugar returned safe but will take car in. had a great time
Change these text messages into correctly written sentences that you would turn in to an English teacher for a grade. Add words, punctuation, capitalization, and whatever else you need. My train is late. I will be home after 7:30. I’m at the store. Do we need milk, eggs, and sugar? I returned safe, but I will take the car in for service. I had a great time!
Words Punctuation Capitalization What did we add to the text messages?
Activity #1/QUIZ: Same word as simple subject or as simple predicate. (The index cards)DIRECTIONS: Create a sentence with the word either as the subject or the predicate. Underline and label the word.WARNINGS: DO NOT CHANGE its form. Do not use the word in an infinitive for the predicate (after “to”). Do not use helping verbs and create a verb phrase for the predicate. Use water as a predicate (verb). Use plant as a subject. Use answer as a predicate (verb). Use answer as a subject. Use file as a predicate (verb). Use file as a subject.
Unit Two/Lesson 1 Grammar Literacy I know the meaning, and I use the word. I know the meaning, but I don’t use the word. I’ve seen the word before, but I don’t really know it. I’ve never seen the word before.
Review from November 05, 2008 Grammar Literacy I know the meaning, and I use the word. I know the meaning, but I don’t use the word. I’ve seen the word before, but I don’t really know it. I’ve never seen the word before.
Our Constitution neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
She wrote her dad an interesting note. The girl from our class wrote it. Coach is always tough on him and the rest of the team. Our basketball coach in seventh grade is tough. The people are the masters of their Constitution.—Theodore Roosevelt Congress certainly cannot forbid all effort to change the mind of the country.—Oliver Wendell Holmes For the grammar expert ONLY: Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth a new nation.—Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address