Subject
What is the subject of a sentence?
The noun (or pronoun) that does the main action of the sentence.
Dudley decided to buy a completely new Xbox One from Walmart.
What is the verb in the sentence?
Decided, to buy
Adjectives describe...
person, place, thing, event, idea
He ________(ied) having a piece of candy after watching his friends eat a whole bar of chocolate.
Fancy
There was a raging ________ over the weekend. A house caught on fire and burned down to the ground.
Conflagration
My uncle recently bought a new boat, which he will keep on the family lake.
What is the subject of the sentence?
Uncle
My wife and I are going to go to King's Dominion in a few weeks for their haunted trails.
What is the verb in the sentence?
Going, go
My uncle recently bought a new boat, which he will keep on the family lake.
What are the adjectives in the sentence?
The winning team _________(ed) in their victory by running laps around the field and cheering. They had won the Super Bowl finals!
Exult
The child experienced absolute _________ on his birthday. All of his friends attended his party AND he was able to eat his favorite flavor of cake!
Felicity
The baseball accidentally hit an extravagant car in the school parking lot.
What is the subject of the sentence?
Baseball
Karen is cheating on the test and no one even realizes it.
What is the linking verb in the sentence?
Is
Her fussy baby cried well into the chilling, October night.
What are the adjectives in the sentence?
In the story, the narrator finally __________(ed) to his abuse of alcohol which led to him murdering his wife.
Succumb
COVID-19 would be considered an ongoing _______________ that people have been trying to avoid. This disease will hopefully one day be destroyed completely.
Pestilence
Her fussy baby cried well into the chilling, October night.
What is the subject of the sentence?
Baby
What does an action verb do?
Describes what the subject does
The baseball accidentally hit an extravagant car in the school parking lot.
What are the adjectives in the sentence?
extravagent, an, school, and parking
9/11 would be considered one of the greatest __________(ies) in today's modern history.
Atrocity
The king ignored the peasant's _______ request. He could care less about the problems of the poor.
Paltry
My dog triumphantly ran around the park carrying the largest stick it could find.
What is the subject of the sentence?
Dog
What does a linking verb do?
Connects the subject with the description or action fo the sentence, and helps you not sound like a caveman
My dog triumphantly ran around the park carrying the largest stick it could find.
What are the adjectives in the sentnece?
My, largest
She was _______ enough to avoid 5th street. That's where all of the crime often happened.
Sagacious
She began to ________ contributions from her friends, and saved her pennies.
Solicit