The document discusses subjects and predicates in sentences. It explains that every sentence has two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is who or what the sentence is about, and the predicate tells what the subject is or does through a verb. It provides examples of subjects and predicates and discusses the types of verbs: action verbs, helping verbs, and linking verbs. Linking verbs connect the subject to an adjective or another noun rather than expressing an action.

1. Subjects & Predicates
 In order to express a complete thought, a
sentence must have two parts: a subject and a
predicate.
 The subject names whom or what the
sentence is about.
 The predicate tells what the subject is or does.
(this is also the verb)

2. There is always a certain spot where a line
can be drawn separating the complete subject
from the complete predicate.
 All of the words about the subject stay on the
subject side.
 All of the words about the predicate, or verb,
stay on the predicate side.

3. Examples of subjects and predicates:
 My brother’s friend works at the mall.
 The book on the table belongs to me.
 Bobby is eating his lunch.
 Tyler runs.

4. Subjects
 All complete subjects have simple subjects.
 The simple subject is the MAIN word in the
complete subject.
 Ex: That big, black dog with the bushy tail is in
our yard.
 Ex: Mike and Jerry are going to the movies.

5. Predicates
 All complete predicates have simple
predicates, or verbs.
 The simple predicate is the MAIN word (or
words) in the complete predicate.(the verbs!)
 Ex: Tom and Sara are eating at the mall.
 Ex: The girl in the polka dots ran into the desk.
 Ex: That crazy cat jumped and screamed at
the same time.

6. Predicates
 A predicate and a verb are the same thing.
 There are three types of verbs:
-Action
-Linking
-Helping

7. Verbs
 The most common, and the easiest, is the
action verb.
 Ex: run, jump, eat, fell, escaped, decided,
covers, makes, died, invited, draws….
 Sally and Jo ate all of the cake!

8. Verbs
 Linking Verbs: They LINK, or connect, the
subject to an adjective or to another noun in
the sentence.
 EX: Mrs. Jones is my teacher.
‘Mrs. Jones’ and ‘teacher’ are the same person;
therefore ‘IS’ is connecting the nouns Mrs. Jones and
teacher.
 Mr. Cartwright is a nerd. Mr. Cartwright and nerd refer
to the same person.

9. More linking verbs
Below, the subject is being connected to an
adjective.
Mr. Adams is hungry.
-Hungry describes Mr. Adams.
Manny was sad.
-Sad describes Manny.

10. Verbs
 Helping Verbs: They help us (the listener or
the reader) to understand the action better.
 For instance, in the sentence…Mark is running to
the store… ‘is’ is allowing, or helping, us to
understand that it is present tense. Versus this one…
Mark will run to the store… in this one, we know, by
the word will, that it hasn’t happened yet, and is future
tense.

11. Wow, that was A LOT!!!!
 Ok, let’s slow down…we are going to start with
verbs (let’s get the hard part out of the way!)
 Take out a sheet of paper and title it VERBS

12. Copy these notes:
 There are three kinds of verbs: action, helping,
and linking.
 action verb – a word that expresses action
 Examples: run, ran, shout, eat, shine,
remember, dream, copy, write, read, bleed

13. Copy:
 helping verb – a non-action verb that helps the
action verb make sense (there are 23)
 They are: am, are, is, was, were, be, being,
been, do, does, did, have, has, had, may,
must, might, can, could, would, should, shall,
will

14. Turn page over and copy:
 action and helping verbs– some action verbs
use a helping verb, and some don’t
 Bob crept into the room. (crept is the action
verb; past tense of creep)
 Bob is creeping into the room. (creeping is
the action verb and is is helping us to know it is
happening now)

15. Copy:
 My friend did eat her lunch. (eat is the action
and did lets us know it already happened, so
did is a helping verb)
 Sam may have eaten the whole pizza. (eaten
is the action-past tense of eat- and may and
have are helping verbs)

16. Copy:
 Linking verbs – non-action verbs that link (or
connect) the subject to an adjective or to
another noun
 They look like helping verbs –same words- but aren’t
followed by action verbs.
Example: *Lucky is so handsome. (handsome describes
Lucky, it is an adjective)
*Lucky is my dog. (dog is a replacement word
for Lucky – they are the same creature)

17. Let’s practice verbs!
 Jill ran over to me.
 Tomorrow I will take a test.
 The two boys are cousins.