Subjects and Verbs

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Subjects and Verbs
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What are subjects and verbs?

• What is a subject?
• Usually a noun or pronoun
• the who or what of the sentence.
• What is a verb?
• The action of the sentence or
• the link in the sentence.

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Recognizing Subjects

• Subjects
• Often answers the who or what question
• Jamie stole the car who?
• The dirty car wouldnt come clean what?

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Recognizing Verbs

• VERBS
• May show action jump, hop, skip
• May link is, was will be, appeared
• May be compound has been, will have, is going
• Might be infinite to go, to listen
• However a gerund is not an active verb
• ing verb without helping verb isnt main verb

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Action vs. Linking Verbs

• Action Verbs
• Show an action what did so and so do?
• Linking Verbs
• not actions (test replace verb with is or was
  if it makes sense, its probably a linking verb.

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Prepositional Phrases 1 of 3

• Often show place
• What can a marble do to a mountain?
• Why know them?
• They often confuse what verb to choose,
• so eliminate to check the verb.

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Prepositional Phrases 2 of 3

• Eliminate the prepositional phrases and find the
  verb in the example.
• Next to the bus stop, a group of new college
  students is talking.
• P. S. Its okay to end a sentence with a
  preposition.

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Prepositional Phrases 3 of 3

• Next to the bus stop, a group of new college
  students is talking.
• Eliminate next to the bus stop, and
• of new college students.
• Subject a group
• Verb is talking

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Regular and Irregular Verbs 1 of 2

• How to know present tense
• add the word every day
• How to know past tense
• add word yesterday
• How to know future tense
• Add word tomorrow

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Regular and Irregular Verbs 2 of 2

• Which sentence is in the present, past,
• and future?
• EX Mary drives like a maniac on the freeway.
  
• Bill didnt like the apple cart.
  
• Arthur is going to fly to Hawaii.

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Puzzling Pairs

• Lend allow someone to borrow verb
• Loan is something borrowed noun
• Lay to put in place
• Lie to recline
• Sit to take a seat
• Set to put or place