Mrs.Mayo's 2nd grade class

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Please be sure to review past and present language lessons with your 
child.So far we have covered the following areas:

1. What makes a sentence:
   *complete thought
   *begins with a capital letter
   *ending mark

2.Types of sentences:
  *statements(.)
  *questions(?)
  *commands(.)
  *exclamations(!)

3.Subject:tells who or what the sentence is about

4. Predicate:tells what the subject is doing

5.Commas:

**Use a comma between the date and year

example: September 24,2008

**Use a comma between a city and state

example: Slidell,Louisiana

6. Combining subjects

**example:
Kennedy went to school. Aliyah went to school.

**Use _and_ to join both sentences.
answer-Kennedy and Aliyah went to school.

7. Nouns:
 � A noun is a word that names a person, place, or thing.
� Some nouns name people.

A GIRL mows the lawn. Her DAD plants a tree.

� Some nouns name places.

This is my BACKYARD.

� Some nouns name things.

The FLOWERS are yellow.

� Use commas to separate three or more words in a series.
� The word 'and' or 'or' comes before the last word in a
series.

I see flowers, plants, and trees.
        A rose may be yellow, white, red, or pink.

8. Proper Nouns: nouns that name special people,things, and places

example:
place:Abney Elementary 
thing:Snickers
people: Mike

9.Abbreviation: a short form of a word

10.Singular nouns- names one person,place, or thing:

ex. a turtle          one boat

11.Plural nouns -name more than one person, place, or thing

**add -s to form the plural of most nouns

ex. boat-boats

**add -es to form plural of singular nouns that end in s,sh,ch, or x

ex. bench-benches

**to form the plural of nouns ending in y-change y to i and add -es

ex. baby-babies

12. Possessive nouns-shows who or what has something

13.An action verb is a word that shows action.

� An action verb shows what someone or something is
doing.

Isabel tells a story. Martin listens to Isabel.

� Some action verbs show actions you can see.

Habib reads a book.

� Some action verbs tell about actions that are hard to see.

Habib enjoys books about animals.

**add an apostrophe(')and -s to a singular noun to make it possessive

ex.duck's egg

**adding apostrophe to most plural nouns

ex. two puppies'

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Mrs.Mayo's 2nd grade class

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