Wednesday, October 03, 2012 Main Verbs & Helping Verbs, Subject-Verb Agreement

1. Sign in and Homework Review in Groups 2. Review of Subjects & Verbs: The Tense Test 3. Main Verbs & Helping Verbs: Mini- Lecture and Discussion 4. Subject-Verb Agreement 5. Homework Preview for October 8 th

 Take your completed homework out and work with one or two other people to check your work. Take turns answering each question.  Mary will circulate around the room, check off your homework, and answer questions.  More questions? See Mary after class.

 Please reflect and write about what you remember about how to find the main verbs and their subjects in sentences.  Two ways of finding the main verb in a sentence: the tense test and marking out prepositional phrases.  Removing prepositions from sentences  The tense test (see handout)

 Review of Homework  Notes:

 Whether a verb is helping verb or a main verb has everything to do what it does in the sentence, not what it looks like! to have to do  The helping verbs that cause the biggest problems are to have and to do.  Review of Homework  Notes:

 We will spend all of the next week on this topic.  English has lots and lots of rules that govern subject-verb agreement.  We will learn rules bunched because they seem to go together.  If you have problems with these tricky rules, please see me either during my drop in office hours or in a scheduled time outside of my regular office hours.

EXTRA-CREDIT OPPORTUNITY

 Complete Worksheet on Finding Verbs & their Subjects in Sentences  Read/annotate p , and complete exercise 6A.  Read/annotate p Complete 17B, p. 191