1. Glorious Grammar A review of the Parts of Speech and VerbAgreement Kimberly Fluck
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3. Importance of Grammar Helps with critical thinking Leads to more prestigious speech and writing Helps when learning a foreign language
4. Parts of Speech - Review Noun – a person, place, thing, or idea Examples: car, dog, Jim, violence Verb – expresses actions, events, or a state of being Examples: run, jump, is, have Adjective – describes, identifies or quantifies Examples: blue, seven, hideous, dark Pronoun – replaces or substitutes for a noun Examples: he, you, I, which Adverb – indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree Examples: quickly, patiently, boldly
5. Practice with Parts of Speech The dog jumps over the fence. Noun Jim gives Susan a card. Verb She ran to class quickly. Adverb He lifted the weights. Pronoun
6. Conjunctions Connects or conjoins parts/clauses of a sentence Examples: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so – “FANBOYS” Jim and Ted built a shed. You can have the cat or the dog. I like having time off, but I don’t like having small pay checks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo&feature=related
7. Complex and Compound Sentences A simple sentence, also called an independent clause, contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought. Example: Mark plays football every afternoon. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a conjunction. Example: I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak English. A complex sentence has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when. Example: After they finished studying, John and Sarah went to the movies.
8. Agreement with Subject-Verb When the subject of a sentence is composed of two or more nouns or pronouns connected by “and,” use a plural verb. When two or more singular nouns or pronouns are connected by “or,” use a singular verb. When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural noun or pronoun joined by “or” the verb should agree with the part of the subject that is closest to the verb. He and his friends are at the game. The paper or the pen is in the desk. The boy or his friends eat fruit. His friends or the boy eats fruit.
9. Sentence Diagramming 1. They laughed. 2. Her friend is an architect. 3. He is getting old. Who can diagram these sentences?
