Predicate Nouns and Predicate Adjectives

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Predicate NounsandPredicate Adjectives

• Grade Seven

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Just a Reminder

• The linking verbs are
• be am
• is are
• was were
• being been

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Just a Reminder

• The verbs of condition are
• appear become continue
• feel grow look
• remain seem smell
• sound stay
• taste turn

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Predicate Nouns

• To locate a predicate noun
• 1. Locate a linking verb or verb of condition.
• 2. Find the subject.
• 3. Look for something that comes after the verb
  that will rename the subject. It will be the
  predicate noun.

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Locating Predicate Nouns

• Example
• The man is a doctor.
• (First find the linking verb. It is is. Then
  find the subject. It is man. Finally, look
  after the linking verb. Is there something to
  rename the man? Yes, it is doctor. Doctor is
  the predicate noun.)
• S LV PN
• The man is a doctor.

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Diagramming Predicate Nouns
S LV PN The
classroom is a place to learn.
classroom is place
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Predicate Adjectives

• To locate a predicate adjective
• 1. Find a linking verb or verb of condition.
• 2. Locate the subject.
• 3. Look for a word that comes after the linking
  verb or verb of condition that describes the
  subject. That is your predicate adjective.

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Locating Predicate Adjectives

• Example
• The skyscraper is tall.
• (The linking verb is is. The subject is
  skyscraper. After the verb is the word tall.
  It describes the skyscraper therefore, it is
  the predicate adjective.)
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  LV PA
• The skyscraper is tall.

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Diagramming Predicate Adjectives

• Example
• S LV PA
• The music was very loud.
• music was loud

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Diagramming Compounds

• Both predicate nouns and predicate adjectives can
  be made compound. This means that there can be
  more than one of them. They are diagrammed with
  a fork doo-hickey!
• Example
• S LV PA PA
• We were happy and excited.
• happy
• We were and
• excited

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• This completes the review of predicate nouns and
  predicate adjectives.
• Additional review can be done in the review
  folders housed in 106 and the library.