1. October 15th, 2019-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNxeF4KMsY
Take out your paper for “The Dinner Party.”Put your number in the right corner. Keep it at your desk. I will take them up by roster number in a few minutes. Open your binder to unit notes. Get a handout “Yellow” from the back and start working on it.

2. 2. At the end of the concert 3. After the ball game
1. How can you tell the difference between a phrase and a clause?
2. Write each group of words on a clean sheet of paper in your units notes section of your binder. Identify each of the following as a Phrase(s) or a Clause. How do you know? Write the answer.
1. As a waiter
2. At the end of the concert
3. After the ball game
4. We have had three responses
5. As the clock strikes midnight

3. Phrase or Clause? Clause: Has both a SUBJECT & VERB (MUST have both)
Phrase: Missing either subject, verb, or both

4. How do I find the Verb/Predicate?
Helpful Tip:
How do I find the Verb/Predicate?
Step 1: Read the clause/sentence.
Step 2: Find the Subject—Ask yourself “Who or
What is the sentence about?”
Step 3: Find the verb/predicate--Ask yourself “ What
is the subject doing?”
Step 4: A verb phrase is a Helping Verb + Action
Verb or Linking Verb or “to be verb”

5. Let’s Practice: What is the subject?
The teacher is Lebron James.
Elliot was eating the bacon.
3. Chloe snorted.
Hint: “Who or what is the clause/sentence about?”

6. The teacher is Lebron James? 2. Elliot was eating the bacon.
Let’s Practice: S
The teacher is Lebron James?
2. Elliot was eating the bacon.
3. Chloe snorted. S S
Hint: Ask yourself “Subject” What?

7. Phrase Phrase(s) Phrase Clause Clause
Do Now:
1. How can you tell the difference between a phrase and a clause?
2. Identify each of the following as a Phrase or a Clause.
1. As a waiter
2. At the end of the concert.
3. After the ball game
4. We have had three responses.
5. As the clock strikes midnight.
Phrase
Phrase(s)
Phrase S
Clause S
Clause

8. Why are these words ninjas?
They may be a Subordinating Conjunction (Clause) or a Preposition (Phrase)
How do I know what the word is?
Check to make sure you do not have a subject and verb following the word.
If there is an S & V = Subordinating Conjunction
If there is NOT an S & V = Prepositional Phrase
Ninjafied: Some prepositions may be ninjas and turn into another part of speech (like subordinating conjunctions).

9. Subordinating Conjunction
Do Now:
1.Which problems have Ninjas?
2. Is the ninja a Subordinating Conjunction or Preposition?.
1. As the waiter
2. At the end of the concert.
3. All over the boy’s room.
4. We have had three responses.
5. As the clock strikes midnight - S
Preposition (Phrase) S V
Subordinating Conjunction
(Dependent Clause)