Ex. The little boy cried often.
A linking verb links, or joins, the subject to a word or words in the predicate. It tells what the subject is or is like.
Ex. He
seemed very quiet. He was a good sport.
•Action verbs show actions that are physical (hike,
build) or mental (remember, approve).
•Common linking verbs are forms of the verb be
(am, is, are, was, were).
•These verbs can be linking verbs: become, seem, appear, feel, taste, smell, and look. (The
cake appears fresh. It looks tasty.) However, some of them can also be used as action verbs.
(A boy appeared suddenly. He looked at the food.)
Plural and Irregular Nouns
Rules:
Add
-s to form the plural of most nouns. picture/pictures wing/wings pattern/patterns
Add -es to nouns ending in ch,
sh, x, z, s, and ss.
bunch/bunches wish/wishes box/boxes
class/classes
If a noun ends in a vowel and y, add -s.
day/days boy/boys
If a noun ends in a consonant and y, change y to i and add -es.
city/cities lady/ladies
Some
nouns have irregular plural forms. They change spelling.
man/men mouse/mice goose/geese
foot/feet child/children
For most nouns that end in f or fe, change f to v and add -es.
leaf/leaves knife/knives calf/calves
Some nouns have the same singular and plural forms.
sheep/deer/ moose/ headquarters/ series Common and Proper Nouns
The names of particular persons, places, and things are proper nouns
· Capitalize the first word and all important words in a
title.
Alexi Bishop lives in Seattle, Washington, a city of the Northwest.
·All other nouns are common nouns. It names are person,
place, thing, or idea. They are not capitalized. Our family has always wanted to live in the mountains or on the coast. · Capitalize the first word and all important words in a
title. The Wind in the Willows · Capitalize days of the week and months of the year. Class meets on Mondays in May. · Capitalize the first letter of an abbreviated proper noun.
· Abbreviations often occur in addresses, titles and initials in names, and names of days
and months. Most abbreviations end with a period.
The envelope went to Ms. M. R. Ryan, 1410 Montgomery St., Raleigh, NC 27607.
It was postmarked Wed., Sept. 27.Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences:
Simple Sentence: expresses a complete thought. It has a subject and a predicate. Satchel Paige was a great athlete. Compound Sentence:contains two simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction such as and, but, oror. Fans waited many hours to see him, but Satchel never let them down.
Complex Sentence:contains an independent clause, which can stand alone, and a dependent clause, which cannot stand alone. The clauses are joined with a word such as if, when, because,until, before, after, or since. When the second baseman caught the ball, the Tigers made a double play. Dependent Independent
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Independent and Dependent Clauses
A clause is a group of
related words containing a subject and a verb.
An independent clause is a clause/sentence
that can stand alone as a separate sentence.
For example:
Jim
studied in the Sweet Shop for his chemistry quiz.
A dependent
clause is a group of words that cannot stand alone as a separate sentence.
For example:
If you gave a
mouse a cookie
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Dependent clause signal words:
after, although, as, as if, because, before, even
if, even though, if, in
order to, since, though, unless, until, whatever, when, whenever, whether, and while.
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