Principal Elements
This is who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
A person, place, thing, activity or idea.
What is a noun?
What is a sentence?
.
What is a period?
There are 23 of these kinds of verbs.
What is helping or auxiliary verb?
What is the predicate?
A word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together or helps another verb.
What is a verb?
This kind of sentence makes a statement.
What is declarative?
!
What is an exclamation point?
In the sentence “Beau did win!”, find the helping verb.
What is did?
The subject of a sentence is usually this part of speech.
Noun.
Name one part of speech used to make up our principal elements.
Subject- Noun
Predicate- Verb
This sentence purpose asks a question.
?
What is a question mark?
Add a helping verb to the sentence “Kaylee shines.”
Varied: Kaylee does shine. Kaylee did shine. Kaylee will shine. Kaylee has shone. Kaylee shall shine.
A sentence must have these two principal elements.
What are subject and predicate?
Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
These sentences show great emotion or feeling!
What is exclamatory?
A interrogative sentence uses this end mark.
What is a question mark?
Add a helping verb to make this declarative sentence into an interrogative. “Angelica learns.”
Varied: Does Angelica learn? Did Angelica learn? Will Angelica learn?
In the sentence “Colton smiled brightly”, the principal elements are…
Subject: Colton
Predicate: smiledThese are the 8 parts of speech.
Noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, adjective?
This kind of sentence gives a command.
Bonus: There is something special about the subject in these sentences.
What is imperative?
Bonus: The subject is an implied “you”.
This kind of sentence uses either an exclamation point or a period.
What is an imperative sentence?
List the helping verbs
What is am, is, are, was and were, being, been and be, have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, should, will and would. There are 5 more helping verbs, may, might, must, can, could.