1. 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

2. 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

3. 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!

4. 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.

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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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.