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Glorious GrammarA review of the Parts of Speech
and Verb Agreement
Kimberly Fluck
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Importance of GrammarHelps with critical thinkingLeads to more prestigious speech and
writingHelps when learning a foreign language
Parts of Speech - ReviewNoun – a person, place, thing, or idea
Examples: car, dog, Jim, violenceVerb – expresses actions, events, or a state of being
Examples: run, jump, is, haveAdjective – describes, identifies or quantifies
Examples: blue, seven, hideous, darkPronoun – replaces or substitutes for a noun
Examples: he, you, I, whichAdverb – indicates manner, time, place, cause, or
degreeExamples: quickly, patiently, boldly
Practice with Parts of SpeechThe dog jumps over
the fence.Noun
Jim gives Susan a card.Verb
She ran to class quickly.Adverb
He lifted the weights.Pronoun
ConjunctionsConnects or conjoins parts/clauses of a
sentenceExamples: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so –
“FANBOYS” Jim and Ted built a shed. You can have the cat or the dog. I like having time off, but I don’t like having small
pay checks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo&feature=related
Complex and Compound SentencesA simple sentence, also called an independent clause,
contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought.Example: Mark plays football every afternoon.
A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.Example: I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to
speak English.A complex sentence has an independent clause joined by
one or more dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when.Example: After they finished studying, John and Sarah
went to the movies.
Agreement with Subject-VerbWhen the subject of a sentence
is composed of two or more nouns or pronouns connected by “and,” use a plural verb.
When two or more singular nouns or pronouns are connected by “or,” use a singular verb.
When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural noun or pronoun joined by “or” the verb should agree with the part of the subject that is closest to the verb.
He and his friends are at the game.
The paper or the pen is in the desk.
The boy or his friends eat fruit.
His friends or the boy eats fruit.
Sentence Diagramming1. They laughed.
2. Her friend is an architect.
3. He is getting old.
Who can diagram
these sentences?
Sentence Diagramming1. They laughed.
They laughed.Subject verb
Sentence Diagramming2. Her friend is an architect.
friend is architect. Subject Verb PredicateH
er
an
Ad
jective
articl
e
Sentence Diagramming3. He is getting old.
He is getting old. Subject Verb Predicate (Adj.)
Bibliographyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=mkO87mkgcNo&feature=related
http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225267e228e1d0110168e7d5a860d-500pi
http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/partsp.html