A lecture about subjects and verbs.

1. SUBJECTS AND VERBS
Brushup Chap 1

2. Why are subjects and verbs
important?
•Making
Connections
•You need to know
your parts of
speech to find
the subject and
verb of a
sentence!
o A complete sentence must have
both a subject and a verb.
o English sentences follow a
pattern: subject-verb-object

3. Review Study Questions
o Subject—the person or thing the sentence is about
• Always a noun or pronoun
o Verb—the action of the sentence
• What are the rules about verbs?
o Prepositional Phrase—additional information that
begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or
pronoun

4. Process
1.Find all of the nouns/pronouns, verbs, and prepositions in
the sentence.
2.Cross out all prepositional phrases.
3.Find the verb (double underline).
4.Find the subject (single underline).

5. Process
1.Find all of the nouns/pronouns, verbs, and prepositions in
the sentence.
Why?
Sorting the parts of speech will help you categorize the
words in the sentence

6. Process
2. Cross out all prepositional phrases.
Why?
Subjects and verbs are NEVER part of a prepositional
phrase.
Remember! Prepositional phrases begin with a preposition
and end with a noun.

7. Process
3. Find the verb (double underline).
Why?
Verbs are the action of the sentence. The action can be
easily connected to a “Who?”
Hint! To check if a word is a verb, try putting the “will” in
front of it
• Run
• Happy

8. Process
4. Find the subject (single underline).
Why?
There is always a relationship between the verb and the
subject.

9. Practice 1
Find all of the nouns, then cross out the prepositional phrases. Finally,
underline the subject once and the verb twice.
1. Nikki waited in the supermarket checkout line for nearly half an
hour.
2. A dog with muddy paws padded across the clean kitchen floor.
3. One of my cousins is a tightrope walker in the circus.
4. Those kittens at the animal shelter need a good home.
5. By the end of the month, I have very little money in my wallet.

10. Practice 2
1. Everyone at the plant is working overtime during August.
2. A list of award winners will be posted on the school’s website.
3. Around midnight, a police siren began to wail in the nearby
street.
4. The shirt should not have been put in the washing machine.
5. On hot days, you must always remember to provide extra water
for the dog.