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Objectives:
To

identify the subject and the verb

in a given sentence.
To identify whether a sentence is
complete or incomplete.

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Concept Map
Simple Sentence
Subject
Appositives
Adjectives
Participles

Verb
Adverbs,
Prepositional
Phrases

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The Subject
The subject of a sentence can be:
A noun: Water is precious in the desert.
A Pronoun: She always makes me
happy.
A verb+ing: Eating regularly helps
dieters.
A To + verb: To learn English needs a
lot of efforts.

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Activity 1
He

is the new director of the institute.

Rollerskating has recently become a
popular means of transportation.
Your laughing at me hurt my feeling.
Man Yu owned a small shop in China
Town.
To drive to New York is her plan.

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Activity 1 contd.
It

sold food and other items.

The new president swore to uphold the
constitution.
To grow from five inches to over five feet
is quite an accomplishment.
Your thanks are enough for me.
Expecting too much leads to frustration.

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The Verb

can/could/shall/should/will/would/may/mi
ght/must + bare verb
Jones

will perform tonight.

Simple present (is/am/are, write/writes,

go/goes, decide/decides)
I

am a teacher.

She

writes books.

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The Verb

Simple past (was/were, wrote, went, decided)

She decided to go.

They went home early.

A form of be (is/am/are/was/were/be/been) +
present participle (writing, going, deciding)

They are studying in the room.

She has been doing it several times.

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The Verb

A form of have (have/has/had) + past participle

(written, gone, decided)

They have written the letter.

She has gone home.

A form of be (is/am/are/was/were/be/been) + past

participle (written, gone, decided) - Passive

The letter was written by John.

The car is being fixed at the moment.

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Activity 2
He

is considering taking early

retirement.
I must beg you to keep this a secret.
I havent shaved today.
Some of the citys swimming pool
was closed yesterday.

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Activity 2
It

must have been love.

Kangaroos, koalas, and opossums
are all marsupials.
These three species are protected.
Every baby needs protection in
order to survive.

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Activity 2
More

poems have been written on

the subject of love than on any
other subject.
Your writing is improving little by
little.
Most students will have left school
and returned home by this time
next year.

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Activity 2
It

has been raining steadily since

yesterday.
One can fell on the floor.
An opossum mothers her young
carefully during their first weeks.
A countrys military might
determines its international policies.

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Appositives

An appositive is a noun or a noun phrase.

An appositive is used to modify (rename

or describe) a noun or a pronoun.

An appositive is placed directly in front of

or directly after the word it modifies,
separated by a comma or a pair of
commas.

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Appositives
Rita,

a good friend of mine, works

as a police officer.
A

good friend of mine, Rita works

as a police officer.
Johnson,

mayor.

a democrat, is running for

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Appositives Activity 1
Ralph,

my pet tarantula, lives in my

room.
A former Eagle Scout, Alan got lost
during the hike.
My father, a retired baseball player,
will be visiting next week.
The book Roots, a best seller for many
months, was the basis for a TV series.

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Appositives Activity 1
The

network ABC, American

Broadcasting Company, showed the
miniseries in January of 1977.
Kunta Kinte, a main character in
Roots, was a slave in the United
States.

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Appositives Activity 1
Alex

Haley, the talented and wellrespected author, was given man

awards for his work, including the
National Book Award.
Alex Haley wrote the Autobiography
of Malcolm X, a popular and
important book.

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Adjectives
An

adjective is used to modify

(rename or describe) a noun or a
pronoun.
An adjective is placed in front of the
word it modifies or after a linking
verb (be, seem, become, look,
remain).

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Adjectives
Kate

is a generous woman.
The children are asleep.
She looked tired.
The old man was sent to hospital
this morning.

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Adjective Activity 2
Ten

puppies are playing in the tall,

green grass.
Where is the small frying pan?
Sam has a blue racing bicycle.
The black kitten was playing with a
small red ball.
Do you know the man in the black
leather jacket?

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Adjective Activity 2
I

have seven colored marking pens

for school.
The city is big, dirty, and noisy.
Three ugly witches made a magic
potion.
That is the biggest toy in the shop.
He ran through the wet muddy field.

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Adjective Activity 2
Hand

me the yellow plastic bowl.

The blue vase was broken by the
naughty boy.
The black and white cat climbed the
fence.
David has a red apple, but Sam has
a green one.
Sams apple is sour.

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Participles

A participle is a word formed from a verb

and used to modify a noun.

The sobbing child starred at the broken fire

engine.

A participle phrase is a group of words based

on a participle.

Her father, taking her in his arms, promised

to fix it.

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Participles
The

present

participle,

formed

by

the

addition of ing to the bare form of the verb,

describes a noun as acting (the meaning is
active):
The dancing couples attracted attention.
Policemen watch for speeding motorists.
Planning every minute of the journey,
she

studied maps and tourist guides.

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Participles
The past participle, commonly formed by the
addition of ed or ed to the bare form of the verb,
describes a noun as acted upon:
A sculpted figure graced the entrance to the
museum.
He took the baked lobster from the oven.
My grandmother gave me a whalebone figure
carved by a sailor before the Civil War.

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Participles - Activity
Trying

to keep warm, the sparrow

fluffed out its feathers.
The teenagers standing on the
corner waved at the passing cars.
Screaming adults tend to be very
impatient.
Doctors couldnt save the dying
man.

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Participles - Activity
A

crying child is easily comforted by a

few soothing words.
Baked potatoes are frequently served
with sour cream, grated cheese, and bits
of fried bacon.
That hanging basket contains a rare
species of bromeliad.
People walking in poorly lighted areas
at night should be extremely careful.

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Participles - Activity
People

suffering from severe

depression should seek help
from a licensed psychologist.
The number of vacation days
provided by the university is
adequate for most people.

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Participles - Activity
Volunteers

recruited by the
sheriff searched for the lost
hikers for several days.
The homes destroyed by the
hurricane will be demolished by
one of the citys wrecking crews
during the coming weeks.

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Participles - Activity
Artificially

sweetened
beverages are purchased by
individuals trying to lose
weight.
The verdict handed down by
the jury surprised none of the
lawyers involved in the case.

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Participles - Activity
Publishing

houses constantly
receive manuscript from aspired
young writers.
Letters of recommendation
received after the first of the
month will not be reviewed by the
admission officer assigning to
your file.

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Participles - Activity
Houseplants

requiring constant
attention are not suitable for
working couples with little
spare time.
Steamed vegetables retain
more nutrients that boiling
ones.

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Participles - Activity
A

couple needing a yard for

their children rented the house
advertising in the weekend
newspaper.

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Adverbs
An

adverb is a word that tells such

things as how, when, where, why,
and for what purpose
An adverb modifies a verb, an
adjective, another adverb or a
whole sentence.

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Adverbs
The balloon rose slowly.
The bolt was dangerously
loose.
Light travels amazingly fast.
Unfortunately, [the bolt was
loose].

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Adverbs - Activity
The

grocer angrily shouted at the

dog running through his store.
The hastily assembled team
performed poorly in the competition.
She normally attends church every
Sunday.
The bank erroneously credited my
account.

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Adverbs - Activity
I

passed the test easily.

He went to the doctor today.
I always try to close the door
silently when I get home.
The mechanic calmly gave us the
news about our ruined transmission.

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Prepositional Phrases
A

preposition is a word that links nouns to

other words in a sentence. It tells us
about three things:
Time
Place
Direction.
Some examples of prepositions are: after,
under, for, from, in, on, at and
through.

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Prepositional Phrases

A prepositional phrase is made up of a

preposition and the object of the
preposition. It usually begins with a
preposition and ends with a noun. For
example:
She is at home. At is a preposition, and
home is a noun.

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Prepositional Phrases
prepositional phrase can act an
adjective or as an adverb. As an
adjective it describes the noun by
answering the question which? For
example:
Which boy? The boy on the bus.

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Prepositional Phrases
As an adverb it describes the verb by
answering the questions how, when, or
where? For example:
Where did the boy walk? The boy walked
under the tall trees.
When did she go to bed? She went to bed
after supper.

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Activity
The big Grizzly from the Rockies wandered
down the forest path, stopping only to eat a
few berries on the way. Soon he heard the
sound of running water and turned off the
pathway. He found himself on the river bank.
Leaping through the rushing water were the
biggest, fattest salmon the bear had ever seen.
He scrambled across the rocks and soon he was
standing in the middle of the river, scooping up
the big fish and stuffing them into his jaws.