Harcourt Journeys: Grammar Skills

Harcourt Journeys: Grammar Skills
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This week’s skills: Part 1: Complete Subject
Part 2: Complete Predicate Part 3: Compound S & P Part 4: Contractions Part 5: Sentence Fluency Copyright © 2011 Kelly Mott

Complete Subject: Part 1: PowerPoint Lesson Part 2: Projectable 2.6
Part 3: Practice Book Page 19 Copyright © 2011 Kelly Mott

Part 1: Complete Subject

The first part is called the subject.
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The 2nd part is called the predicate.

Today, we’re going to focus on the simple subject and complete subject.

The simple subject is the noun that answers who or what in the sentence.

The brown, furry dog ate ice cream.
Simple Subject The brown, furry dog ate ice cream. Copyright © 2011 Kelly Mott

The complete subject includes all of the words that go with the noun.

Directions: Circle the simple subject and underline the complete subject.

The friendly dog gave the cat a kiss.

The golden retriever puppies took a snooze.

Baby bear told Mama bear a secret.

Part 2: Complete Predicate

Today, we’re going to focus on the simple predicate and complete predicate.

The simple predicate is the verb that tells what the subject is or does.

The complete predicate includes all of the words that go with the verb.

Directions: Circle the simple predicate and underline the complete predicate.

The beagle pup winked at me.

The hamster sleeps quietly in my hand.

Part 3: Compound Subjects & Predicates

Complete sentences have two parts.

Today, we are going to learn about compound subjects and predicates.

A compound subject has more than one simple subject.

Jack and Jill went up the hill.

A compound predicate has more than one simple predicate.

Eric plays football and swims on the swim team.

Samantha walks her dog and grooms him.

Contractions are made by bringing two words together into one.

Let’s practice. Tell what contraction word the two words make.

Part 6: Sentence Fluency

One way to make sentences more interesting is to make them different lengths.

Compound sentences are 1 way we can make our writing interesting.

A compound sentence is two sentences combined into 1..

but and or You can combine sentences using connecting words like:

Today we are going to combine sentences by combining the subjects.

Cross out what’s the same. Then put the rest together.

Directions: Combine the subject to make one sentence.
1. Joey plays baseball. 2. Samantha plays baseball. New Sentence: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2011 Kelly Mott

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