Being Yourself Grammar

Firefighters put out a fire. Subject Every sentence has two parts. The first part or subject tells who or what the sentence is about. Firefighters put out a fire. Dogs like to run.

Let’s Practice: Identify the Subject Firefighters help save people. The flames were large and hot. Smokey Bear tells people to be careful. Wildfires can be harmful. The heavy smoke made me cough.

Predicates Every sentence has two parts. The second part or predicate tells what the subject of the sentence does or is. My dad loves ice cream. Steven plays piano.

Let’s Practice: Identify the Predicate Rosita is deaf. Her family speaks sign language. Her team won a trophy!. Rosita’s mom is a teacher. 5.The deaf students are signing.

Subjects + Predicates When we put a subject and a predicate together, we make a sentence. Dogs Dogs like to run. like to run. Steven Steven plays piano. plays piano.

Let’s Practice! Match the subject with the correct predicate. My best friend have a good time together. We was exciting. I is a dog. The movie am hungry. It lives next door.

, Using Commas Use a comma between the day and year in a date. October 3 2014.

, Using Commas Use a comma between the name of a city and a country. Taipei Taiwan.

They are named Baxter and Sam. Let’s Practice! Box the subject. Underline the predicate. Mr. Wooley has two cats. They are named Baxter and Sam. Baxter is fat and orange. Sam likes to catch mice.

Use the subjects and predicates to make 5 crazy sentences. Let’s Practice! Use the subjects and predicates to make 5 crazy sentences. Mr. Wooley ate 20 pizzas for dinner. Mrs. Chiou is a dinosaur. Teacher Amy lives on the moon. ? ride a dragon to school. Class 206 swims to Japan.