7th Grade Grammar

Vocabulary and Notes

Instructions for Grammar Lessons

• Every time we have a grammar lesson you are expected to take notes.

• Since you will not be able to take the textbook home, your notes will help you with completing your homework and with studying for tests.

• You need to write down the vocabulary and any notes on the powerpoint.

• I may also write notes on the board which you will need to write down too.

Grammar Lesson 1

• Vocab:

• Adapt means to adjust, accommodate, or modify to fit.

• Adept means expert or proficient.

• Adopt means to embrace, espouse, or take by choice.

Four Types of Sentences

• A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.

• A capital letter begins each sentence.

• 4 types of sentences:

• Declarative: makes a statement and ends with a period.

• Interrogative: asks a question and ends with a question mark.

• Imperative: expresses a command or a request and ends with a period.

• Exclamatory: shows excitement or strong feeling and ends with an !.

Grammar Lesson 2

• Vocab:

• The Greek prefix macro- means large or long.

• Macrocosm: the entire world or the universe, or a system that contains subsystems.

• Macrofossil: a fossil large enough to see with the naked eye

• Macron: the symbol placed over a vowel to indicate a long vowel sound

Simple Subject/Simple Predicate

• A sentence has two main parts: the subject and the predicate.

• Subject: the part that tells who or what the sentence is about.

• Predicate: the part that tells something about the subject.

• The complete subject or predicate may consist of a single word or of many words.

• A subject or predicate consisting of many words always has an essential part that we call the simple subject or simple predicate.

Simple subject

• The main word or words in a sentence that tell who or what is doing or being something

• Understood subject: in an imperative sentence, the subject “you” is understood

Simple predicate

• The verb

• A verb expresses action or being

• If the verb contains more than one word we call this the verb phrase.

• Split predicate: in interrogative sentences, we usually find parts of the predicate split by the subject

Grammar Lesson 3

• Vocab:

• Human: an adjective, means characteristic of man

• Humane: an adjective, means kind or compassionate

Complete Sentences, Sentence Fragments, and Run-on Sentences

• Complete sentence: expresses a complete thought, has both a subject and predicate

• Sentence fragments: a piece of a sentence that lacks a subject or a verb or both

• Run-on sentences: two complete thoughts, written or spoken as one sentence without proper punctuation or connecting words