English II

English IIFebruary 11 - 15Daily Grammar Tuesday(Sentence parts)Grammar review What is a subject?

The SubjectThe subject describes who or what the sentence is about.It can be made of one or several words.The subject is always a nounPersonPlacethingideaPrepositional PhrasesGroup of words beginning with a preposition and ending with a noun or a pronoun.

They can act as an adjective: I want a room with a view.

They can act as an adverb:His house is on the lake.

Verbs transitive & intransitiveWhat is the difference between these two sentences?The batter hit the ball.The bird sang.

Transitive verbs are action verbs that have an object to receive that action. In the first sentence above, the direct object ball received the action of the verb hit.

Intransitive verbs are action verbs but unlike transitive verbs, they do not have an object receiving the action. Notice there are no words after the verb sang.

Direct ObjectsDirect objects:Are nouns or pronounsFollow an action verbIs never in a prepositional phraseTo find it, say subject, verb, what?Example I like English. I like what?English (direct object)

Indirect ObjectsIndirect objects:Are nouns or pronounsCome before a direct objectAre never prepositional phrasesTo find them, say subject, verb, direct object, to or for whom or what? Example He gave me the paperHe gave paper to whom? me (indirect object)

Appositive/Appositive PhrasesAre nouns or pronouns that follow and rename another noun or pronoun:

My son Beck likes trains.Ansley, my daughter, loves to dance.

You will know you are looking at an appositive phrase if it can be removed from the sentence and still leave you with a complete sentence!Tuesdays Sentencemany students work on the star our school newspaper

Subject?many students work on the star our school newspaperSVerb? (transitive or intransitive?)many students work on the star our school newspaper VIObject?many students work on the star our school newspaper OPPrepositional Phrase? (adjective or adverb?)many students work on the star our school newspaper adv prep phAppositive Phrase?many students work on the star our school newspaperapp ph

Parts of Speech ReviewPlease do Exercise A on the Review B worksheet.

Vocabulary root words sub, trans

Root Word MeaningThree words from this root word Another form of each to the three words in row twoSentenceSentenceSentenceINDEPENDENT READINGPlease get the book that you selected for independent reading and read SILENTLY for the next 20 minutes.When I tell you that time is up, please fill out your worksheet (a summary or your thoughts on what you read at least 5 sentences NOT copied from the book) and put it in your IR folder.

Grammar Notes ClausesWhat is a clause? A clause is a word group that contains a verb and its subject and that is used as a sentence or part of a sentence.Although every clause contains a subject and a verb, not every clause expresses a complete thought. Clauses that do express a complete thought are called independent.Clauses that do not express a complete thought are called subordinate.The Independent ClauseAn independent (or main) clause expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence.

Example: The people left the building.

The Subordinate ClauseA subordinate (or dependent) clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself as a sentence.

To make a complete sentence, a subordinate clause must be joined to an independent clause.

Example: when you arrive at the airportGrammar notes types of sentencesDepending on its structure, a sentence can be classified as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.

Simple SentencesA simple sentence contains one independent clause and no subordinate clauses.

Example:

The boys wanted to take a vacation last summer. S VCompound SentencesA compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses and no subordinate clauses.

Example: SVOriginally, they wanted to ride bikes all the S V way, but they decided to take the train

instead.

Complex SentencesA complex sentence contains one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause.

Example: S V S VIf they took a train, they could see all the sights, too.Compound-Complex SentencesA compound-complex sentence contains two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause.

Example: S VSThe band played at a dance, and Ray was V S V pulled into a line dance that was starting.

Wednesday Daily GrammarIdentify the clause(s) and the sentence type.

many students work on the star our school newspaper

many students work on the star our school newspaperIND CL SS

Parts of Speech ReviewPlease do Exercise A on the Review B worksheet.

INDEPENDENT READINGPlease get the book that you selected for independent reading and read SILENTLY for the next 20 minutes.When I tell you that time is up, please fill out your worksheet (a summary or your thoughts on what you read at least 5 sentences NOT copied from the book) and put it in your IR folder.

Thursday Daily Grammar PracticePlease use your Thursday grammar notes to add punctuation (commas, semicolons, apostrophes, underling, quotation marks) and capitalization to this weeks sentence

many students work on the star our school newspaper

Many students work on The Star, our school newspaper.Parts of Speech ReviewPlease do Exercise B on the Review B worksheet.

Quiz Time!!Find a space away from your friends and begin working on the vocabulary quiz.

You have 15 minutes Good Luck!!

Achieve 3000 time..Please get a laptop and work on the assigned articles on empower3000.com.

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