Capitals
Which of these needs to be capitalized when written? Seasons, types of weather, or months?
Months! You don't capitalize seasons or types of weather.
A subject and predicate go together like ___________ and _______________!
Peanut butter and jelly!
A predicate is an action word or a linking word. Name two examples of an action word.
Run, jump, play, climb.....or more!
A fragment is a group of words missing a ______ or a _______.
subject or a predicate
A run on sentence is a sentence that is ____________.
too long
Which of these words should be capitalized:
president's day
spring
walmart
month
Walmart and President's Day
The subject is the _____ or ______ a sentence is about.
Who or what a sentence is about
A predicate can be an action word or a linking word. Name two examples of a linking word.
Was, is, were, am...and more!
Fragment or complete sentence:
My dog loves to eat Oreos.
Complete sentence!
What acronym helps us remember conjunctions?
FAN BOYS
Do you capitalize days of the week? Can you name them all?
Yes! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
The subject is always a noun. What is a noun?
A person, place, or thing
Find the predicate:
Bill drank 5 cans of soda last night.
Drank
Fragment or complete sentence:
The steamy shower.
Fragment!
What does the S stand for in FANBOYS?
What words need to be capitalized in this sentence?
Barry went to a grocery store in spokane to buy a gallon of dairy gold milk.
Barry, Spokane, Dairy Gold
Find the subject:
He threw the baseball over the fence.
He
Find the predicate(s):
Suzy swam to the dock and climbed out of the water.
What is this fragment missing, a subject or a predicate:
The big blue dolphin.
Predicate!
What does the F stand for in FANBOYS?
For
Last summer, monica hiked in the olympic national park in washington.
Monica, Olympic National Park, Washington
Find the subject:
The dog dug a hole in the ground.
Dog
The dog is black.
is
What is this fragment missing, a subject or a predicate?
Climbed the mountain.
Subject!
Fix this run on sentence by adding a conjunction:
I like cookies I don't eat them very often.
I like cookies but I don't eat them very often.
OR
I like cookies, yet I don't eat them very often.