Grammar Week Five

Students continue to learn grammar basics and practice those skills during DEAR.

This week, students focused on subjects and predicates, regular and irregular verbs, subject-verb agreement, and collective nouns.



Students must understand that all complete sentences are comprised of these two parts: A) a subject, and B) a predicate.

 

Subjects of sentences can come in the form of any of the above: singular or plural nouns, compound or collective nouns.

Likewise, the predicate of a sentence must contain a verb; the verb may be regular or irregular based on its conjugation into the past tense.

 

Finally, the subject and the verb must always agree!

Grammar Week Four!

Students continue studying their grammar concepts in DEAR here in 8th grade at PCA. Week four saw students covering verb tenses in the past, present and future, as well as the different types of sentence constructions.

Students remember the four purposes of sentences using the acronym D.I.I.E.

 

Students study these examples to understand how we communicate the passage of time in English language.
 

"To Be" is a fundamental verb to understand in all its tenses to be successful in English.

Grammar Week Two!

Grammar instruction continues in our DEAR Interactive Notebooks!

This week, we looked at the difference between singular (one) and plural (many); we also analyzed the difference between common and proper nouns:

Once we understand the difference between general nouns and specific nouns, we can also analyze the difference between the articles that we use to specify nouns:

Finally, we ended our week by talking about pronouns (a word that replaces a noun) when used as a subject of a sentence; called Subjective Pronouns:

Next week we continue analyzing nouns and parts of sentences!

Grammar Week One

This week students began using their DEAR Interactive Notebooks to learn and practice grammar concepts. We started with some review, like the ways that verbs function:

 

 

 

Then, we began discussion infinitive verbs and their formula: TO + VERB = Infinitive

 

 

 

Once students understand infinitive verbs, then we can discuss phrasal verbs. These are verbs that are part of a two (or more) word phrase, which often changes the meaning of the verb altogether.

 

Here are the formulas for a phrasal verb:

 

VERB + Adverb = Phrasal Verb

 

or

 

VERB + Preposition = Phrasal Verb

 

 



For example, if you use the verb 'to take' that means to acquire something; if you add the word 'off,' then your phrasal verb becomes 'to take off' which means to depart.

 

Here are some examples, though there are many, many phrasal verbs in the English language: