Week five

Write on board:

Declarative Please go to the store. My kitten loves to drink milk.

Exclamatory That is a huge bumblebee! John ate a sandwich.

Imperative My, what big teeth you have! Stop it.

Let’s go pick some apples.

First, for a review, I would like each of you to come to the board and match the purpose to the sentence.

Verse: 2 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all.

Prayer

This week we finally slow down. You should have a chance to catch up on your mastery charts and to work on your tasks, as well. This week, we will only be introducing one new piece of the puzzle – the interrogative sentence.

We’ll also be reviewing the simple sentence structure and the subject-verb intransitive sentence pattern.

Interrogative Purpose

We have already learned the Declarative, Exclamatory and Imperative sentence purposes. This week we are adding the interrogative purpose.

With the first three structures, there is only one way to construct the sentence. With interrogative, there are three ways possible to construct the sentence.

The first way we can do this is to simply change the end mark from a period to an exclamation point.

John ate. The dog likes to chew on bones. She likes to fish.

John ate? (Have student come up and change.) àditto

The second option is to replace the subject of the sentence with an interrogative pronoun (ch F).

John ate. The dog likes to chew on bones. She likes to fish.

Who ate? (Have students find subject and replace it with pronouns on ch F.)

The third option is to begin the sentence with a helping verb (ch C).

John ate. The dog chewed on his bone. She likes to fish.

Did John eat? (Look at chart C to find a helping verb to begin the sentences.)

Have students come up with a declarative sentence– maybe two – and we will make it interrogative in three different ways.

(Some helping verbs, like “has” require the verb to change form. Has John eaten?)

Tasks

Task 3 – few changes from before:

Interrogative pronouns are labeled SP (subject pronoun)

Helping verbs are labeled Vh (verb helping)

If there is a helping verb, there will also be a main verb which will be labeled either Vi or Vt.

Task 4 – no punctuation in diagramming, so it is difficult to know the purpose of a sentence simply from the diagram. John ate. And John ate? Are diagrammed the same.

If the question was formed with an interrogative pronoun, the pronoun is simply diagrammed as the subject of the sentence. Who ate?

If the question was formed with a helping verb, we place the helping verb next to the main verb. It may be helpful to turn it into a declarative sentence before diagramming. However, keep the helping verb capitalized, so we know that it begins the sentence.

Do sentence 2 together – go through tasks. – Have moms help teach this one.

Also diagram – John ate? Who ate? Did John eat?

Parts of speech – Review

Subject/predicate – subject is who or what the sentence is about; predicate says something about the subject.

Verbs – show action, being or existence.

Nouns/pronouns – noun is person, place, thing, activity or idea; pronoun takes the place of a noun.

Interrogatives – a word or phrase used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion – grammatically disconnected from the rest of the sentence.

Charts

No new mastery charts this week. However, A, E and F will help you with this week’s lesson.

Older students, you may want to add chart D.

Editing Rule

Most possessive nouns end with either -‘s, if singular, or –s’, if plural. Possessive pronouns like my, your, theirs, ours, etc. do not require an apostrophe.