1. Subjects and Verbs Click the speaker for sound

2. What are subjects and verbs? What is a subject? – Usually a noun or pronoun – the who or what of the sentence. What is a verb? – The action of the sentence or the link in the sentence.

3. Recognizing Subjects Subjects –Often answers the who or what question –Jamie stole the car – who? –The dirty car wouldn’t come clean – what?

4. Recognizing Verbs VERBS –May show action [jump, hop, skip] –May link [is, was will be, appeared] –May be compound [has been, will have, is going] –Might be infinite [to go, to listen] **However a gerund is not an active verb [ing verb without helping verb isn’t main verb]

5. Action vs. Linking Verbs Action Verbs –Show an action – what did so and so do? Linking Verbs –not actions (test replace verb with is or was – if it makes sense, it’s probably a linking verb.

6. Prepositional Phrases #1 of 3 Often show place – What can a marble do to a mountain? Why know them? – They often confuse what verb to choose, so eliminate to check the verb.

7. Prepositional Phrases #2 of 3 Eliminate the prepositional phrases and find the verb in the example. Next to the bus stop, a group of new college students is talking. P. S. It’s okay to end a sentence with a preposition.

8. Prepositional Phrases #3 of 3 Next to the bus stop, a group of new college students is talking. Eliminate: “next to the bus stop,” and “of new college students.” Subject: “a group” Verb: “is talking”

9. Regular and Irregular Verbs #1 of 2 How to know present tense add the word every day How to know past tense –add word yesterday How to know future tense –Add word tomorrow

10. Regular and Irregular Verbs #2 of 2 Which sentence is in the present, past, and future? EX: Mary drives like a maniac on the freeway. Bill didn’t like the apple cart. Arthur is going to fly to Hawaii.

11. Puzzling Pairs Lend: allow someone to borrow [verb] Loan: is something borrowed [noun ] Lay: to put in place Lie: to recline Sit: to take a seat Set: to put or place