Happy National Cheese Pizza Day!

Today’s Awesome Thing is… the awesomeness of the Marvel movies.

Word of the Day! Hooray! superfluous (adj)—more than necessary; too much The joke Percival heard wasn’t all that funny, so all of his crazy laughing was totally superfluous; he was doing too much.

Parts of Speech! NOUN: person, place, thing or idea dog, pizza, Thornton, truth, glasses PRONOUN: takes the place of a noun he, she, it, they, me ADJECTIVE: describes a noun or pronoun awesome, smelly, baller, worst, red

Parts of Speech! VERB: expresses action or state of being run, sit, nap, is, am, were ADVERB: describes a verb, adjective or another adverb (often ends in “ly”) Arrived early, feeling sleepy, really smelly

Parts of Speech! PREPOSITION: relates one word to another word around, above, into, by, of, with CONJUNCTION: connects words or groups of words (FANBOYS + B) for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so, because INTERJECTION: expresses emotion Ouch! Woah! Baller! Yes! No! Ugh!

Complete sentences must include… A subject: Who/what a sentence is about; usually a noun. A predicate: What the subject does; always a verb. A capital letter: First word! Always! Punctuation: You know the drill. A complete thought: It’s got to make sense. Example: Gambit sleeps all day long.

Subjects and Predicates Napoleon Dynamite ate the cheese pizza. The dog and the cat fell in love. Most awesome people love to write essays.

An INCOMPLETE sentence is called a… FRAGMENT! Examples—What are they missing? Went to the store yesterday. Ms. Comiskey, my teacher. Shakespeare felt. Napoleon Dynamite is a great movie TO FIX: Add what’s missing  Hot tips: Sentences should never begin with the following words: and, but, or, nor

RUN-ON SENTENCES! More than one subject/predicate pair lives in a sentence without proper punctuation use. We can fix these by adding a comma and conjunction, adding a semi-colon or making them two sentences.

Corrections! Example: Ms. Comiskey went to the store she bought some cookies. Here’s how this can be fixed: Ms. Comiskey went to the store, and she bought some cookies. Ms. Comiskey went to the store; she bought some cookies. Ms. Comiskey went to the store. She bought some cookies.