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| the doer of the action;word or group of words spoken about in a sentence. |
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word/group of words spoken about in a sentence including it's modifiers.
eg. The little boy with the smile on his face ran down the street.
simple subject: boy
complete subject: little boy with the smile on his face |
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| normally the subject precedes the verb but not always. When not? |
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a. the "there" sentence
eg. there is a cat on the hill.
b. subject of commands is implied, and is usually "you"
eg. close the door! (subject implied: you)
c.subject of many questions is often in the middle of a verb phrase.
eg. must you talk so loudly? |
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| word/group of words telling us something about the subject (indicate action/state of being) |
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word/gow tells us something about the subject
eg. the little boy with the smile on his face ran down the street.
simple: ran
complete: ran down the street. |
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doer of the action.
**ask: "who?" "what?" and then say verb.
eg. the zookeeper fed the monkeys.
Who fed the monkeys? the zookeper.
the noun "zookeeper" is the subject of the verb "fed". |
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receiver of action;usually comes after the action verb
**say the verb, then ask "whom?" "what?"
eg. the zookeeper fed the monkeys.
subject: the zookeeper
verb:fed
direct object: the monkeys. |
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indirect object of the verb will precede the direct object and usually tells "to whom" "for whom" the action of the verb is done.
**say the verb and the direct object and then say "to whom?" or "for whom?"
eg. the zookeeper fed the monkeys peanuts.
subject: zookeeper
predicate: fed
indirect object: the monkeys
direct object: peanuts.
zookeeper fed peanuts to what? to the monkeys.
** indirect object are NOT found in prepositional phrases. |
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| object of the preposition |
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the noun that ends a prepositional phrase; there must be a preposition in the sentence for there to be an object of the preposition.
eg. sally sat (in the room).
preposition: in
object of preposition: room |
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| subjective completion to the subject |
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a noun or an adjective which follows a linking verb and refers back to the subject;same as or tells you more about the subject.
**say the non-action verb, then ask "who?" "what?"
eg. sally is a friend.
sally is what? a friend.
The doctor was angry. the doctor was what? angry.
note: a subjective completion may be a noun, pronoun, or adjective. |
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| MUST CONTAIN A SUBJECT AND PREDICATE |
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| a group of words that has a subject and a predicate and can be a sentence by ITSELF. |
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| depends on another clause for meaning.; begin with subordinating conjunctions or relative pronouns. |
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| subordinate clauses that modify nouns. adjectival clauses begin with relative pronouns. (who, which, that , whom, whose, where, when) |
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subordinate clauses that usually modify verbs, but sometimes modify adjectives or other adverbs. They begin with subordinate conjunctions (because, although, since, when, where etc.)
eg. *because the car went through the stop sign*, the police arrested the driver.
the adverbial clause modifies the verb "arrested" and explains why the police arrested the driver. |
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