Grammar HW Help Monday Compound Subject: all the words that tell who or what the sentence is about Compound Predicate: all the words that tell what the subject is or does Simple Subject: one noun that is the focus of the sentence Simple Predicate: one verb that tells what the subject is or does

Circle the compound subject and underline the complete predicate.

Example 1: Everybody knows the story of the Three Little Pigs.

______simple subject simple predicate

Example 2: Jeremy’s mom made us lunch.

______simple subject simple predicate

Tuesday Preposition: Prepositions are linking words in a sentence. We use prepositions to explain where things are in time or space. Prepositions tell us where something is (for example, beside, under, on, against, beneath or over) or when something is happening (for example: until, during, after, before or more specifically 'on Christmas Day', 'at twelve o'clock' or 'in August'). Adjectives: describe a noun Adverb: describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb Contraction: two words joined together to form a new word (I + am= I’m, do+ not=don’t) Pronoun: a word that replaces a noun (he, she, it, we, they, etc)

Wednesday Declarative Sentence: a statement; ends with a period Imperative Sentence: gives a command or makes a request; can end with a period or exclamation mark. Exclamatory Sentence: expresses great emotion (excitement, surprise, happiness, anger); ends in an exclamation mark. Interrogative Sentence: asks a question; ends in a question mark

Simple sentence: contains a single subject and a single predicate Compound sentence: contains more than one subject or predicate

Thursday Prefix: added to the beginning of a word to make a new word (dis-, un-, im-, inter-, etc) Suffix: added to the end of a word to make a new word (-ly, -less, -y, -ment, etc) Homonym: words that sound alike but have different meanings