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Every sentence has two parts. They are...
subject (noun) and predicate (verb)
When a sentence is a command, the subject of the sentence is...
(you)
plural, possessive or both? boys
plural - I see the two boys.
plural, possessive or both? boy's
possessive - That is the boy's book.
plural, possessive or both? boys'
both - Those are the twin boys' books.
a noun is ...
a person, place, or thing
a proper noun names a ...
SPECIFIC person, place, or thing. For example: Julian, Georgia, Star Wars
proper nouns start with a [blank] letter
capital
a common noun names a ...
NON-SPECIFIC person place or thing. For example: boy, city, movie
common nouns start with a [blank] letter
lower case
singular means
ONLY ONE
plural means
MORE than one
a pronoun ...
takes the place of a noun
a verb is ...
an action like running or jumping, but some verbs are invisible like thinking or praying
Verbs have 3 tenses that tell time. They are ...
past (yesterday), present (today), future (tomorrow)
To verb "to be" means that ...
something exists
"am, is, are was, were, be, been, being" are all words that mean ..
"to be" - to exist
a direct object is ...
a noun that receives the action of the verb in a sentence
to find the direct object do 2 things. They are ...
1. find the verb 2. ask [verb] who? or [verb] what? For example: "Daddy reads the book." The verb is "reads". Reads what? the book. Book is the direct object
a direct object is always what part of speech?
a noun
A paragraph has how many topics?
only one
In many paragraphs the topic sentence is found where?
the first sentence of the paragraph
the topic sentence in a paragraph does what?
Tells what the paragraph is about
Which words are capitalized in a title?
Always the first word of a title and all important words are capitalized
Which words are NOT capitalized in a title?
little words like "a, the, in, of, to, on, and" UNLESS it is the first word of the title. For Example: A Winter Night, Winter for a Night
an adjective is
a word that describes a noun, or a word that tells what kind, how many, which one, or whose
For example:

"blue" describes what kind
"many" describes how many
"this" or "the" and "a" describes which one
"his" or "boy's" tells whose