Who/What the Sentence Is About
This part of the sentence tells who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
This part of the sentence tells what the subject is or does.
What is the predicate?
This type of sentence gives a command or makes a request.
What is an imperative sentence?
This type of noun names a general person, place, or thing.
What is a common noun?
This type of noun names a general person, place, or thing.
Common Noun
Identify the subject: The dog barked loudly.
What is “dog”?
Identify the predicate: The students listened carefully.
What is “listened carefully”?
Identify the type: The sky looks cloudy.
What is a declarative sentence?
Identify the proper noun: Sarah walked to the store.
Sarah
Identify the singular noun(s): There were papers and an apple in Mrs. Suell's desk.
apple, desk
Identify the subject: My best friend from school won the contest.
What is “My best friend from school”?
Which word begins the predicate? My brother washed the car yesterday.
What is “washed”?
Rewrite as interrogative: You are ready.
Are you ready?
True or False: Common nouns are capitalized only at the beginning of sentences.
True
Change to singular: wolves
wolf
True or False: A subject can be more than one word.
What is True?
True or False: A predicate always starts with a verb.
True.
True or False: Imperative sentences always end with a period.
False. It can also end with an exclamation point.
Which word is a common noun?
A. Monday
B. teacher
C. California
Identify the plural noun:
The geese waddled across the yard.
geese
Identify the complete subject: The bright, colorful balloons floated away.
What is “The bright, colorful balloons”?
Identify the complete predicate: The little girl danced gracefully across the stage.
What is “danced gracefully across the stage”?
Identify the declarative sentence:
A. Clean your room.
B. What time is it?
C. The library closes at 6.
C. The library closes at 6.
Replace the common noun with a proper noun: The boy won the award.
Ex. Ethan won the award.
Identify the singular noun(s) in the sentence:
The stack of papers fell off the desk.
stack, desk