Vocabulary
What does wayward mean, and what part of speech?
Adjective
1. Disobedient, willful
2. Unpredictable
Type of verb that connects the subject to a word or word group that describes the subject. [Name it and give an example sentence]
Linking verb
The child is tall [is]
A group of words used in a sentence that has a subject and a verb.
Name the types and give examples.
What is a clause?
Independent - expresses a complete thought, can stand by itself as a complete sentence. She ate lunch with her mom.
Subordinate (or dependent) - does not express a complete thought, can't stand by itself as a complete sentence. Before she left, she ate lunch with her mom. [Before she left]
What is the parts of an introduction acronym, and describe each item.
If you had to write an intro paragraph on coping with oppression in Endless Steppe, how would you write your intro paragraph?
HATMAT
hook, author, title, main characters, a brief summary, thesis statement.
Start with thesis statement (which is usually at the end of the paragraph), build other details around it.
"Soon", "In a few minutes", "when he is ready" are examples of what part of speech? Name each.
Single word adverb, adverb phrase (without a verb), adverb clause (has a subject and a verb).
What is the definition and part of speech for Entreat?
Verb
1. To beg, implore, ask earnestly.
Define a complete predicate, and give an example sentence.
Consists of a verb and all the words that describe the verb and complete its meaning.
Under a large bush sat a tiny rabbit. [Under a large bush sat]
The words that join individual words, phrases, or clauses.
what acronym is used to remember them?
What is a conjunction?
FANBOYS - for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
Which is the conjunction in this sentence?
We studied hard for the test, for we knew that we needed to. [the first for is a preposition]
Can you think of an example in Endless Steppe of each one?
Speak = what (dialogue) and how (speaker tags & tone) a character speaks to other characters.
Thoughts
Effects on Others
Actions
Looks
The term describes who is communicating to the reader. Can be first, second, and third person. Endless Steppe is in the third person.
Narrative point of view.
What is the definition and part of speech for Culminate?
Verb
1. To reach a high point of development.
2. To end, climax.
What is an indirect object? Give two sentence examples.
Noun, pronoun, or word group that sometimes appears in sentences containing direct objects. Tells to whom or to what or for whom or for what the verb is done.
Dad gave whatever needed fixing his full attention [whatever needed fixing].
Ethan gifted us with a lovely placard. [us]
Give an example of a sentence with a nonessential element.
Her father, who was a doctor, worked very long hours.
The conclusion that a reader draws from an implication.
What is an inference?
Give an example of a compound subject.
Ethan and Ronin are about to get a big surprise!
What is the definition and part of speech for Interminable?
Adjective
1. Endless, so long as to seem endless.
Give the definition of a predicate nominative, and sentence example.
Word or word group that completes the meaning of a linking verb and that identifies or describes the subject. May be a noun, pronoun, or word group that is in the predicate and that identifies the subject or refers to it.
Mr. Ko became mayor of our town. [mayor]
My aunt's niece is she. [Pronoun she identifies niece]
Give an example of a compound-complex sentence.
Identify all the parts of speech in your sentence.
When Bill [S] left, he locked [v] the door, but he forgot to turn off the lights.
Interpretation of a story or text to clarify or expand on the meaning.
What is "paraphrase"?
The beginning of a story, introduces the main characters, the background, and the setting.
Exposition
What is the definition and part of speech for Indifference?
Noun
1. A lack of interest or concern.
Break down these 2 sentences by parts of speech. Subject, verb (what type), etc.
The chili tastes spicy.
How cheerful the baby is!
1. Predicate Adjective spicy completes the meaning of linking verb tastes and describes the subject chili
2. Baby is subject, is is a transitive verb, how is adverb, cheerful is adjective
What is a subordinating conjunction?
Give the acronym that helps list the various subordinating conjunctions, and name at least 5.
Part of speech that can start a subordinate clause.
On a white bus
only if, once, now that, after, although, as as if, as long as, as soon as, as though, when, whenever, whoever, why, while, whom, what, how, however, if, in order that, though, even if, even though, because, before, unless, until, since, so that.
Using one thing to stand for or represent something else.
What is symbolism?
Diagram the sentence "The two cousins had never met", including subject, predicate, etc. State what kind of predicate.
The - article
two - adjective
cousins - subject
had met - predicate, simple
never - adverb
Note that -n't and never are not part of a verb phrase. They are adverbs.