Week ten

Week Ten

Adjectives Compound/Declarative/S-Vl-PA Tasks 1-4

Identify S-Vt-DO or S-Vl-PN

1. My dog ate my homework. 4. God is the Creator of all things.

2. Zachary became a Challenge Student. 5. That was a great party!

3. The horse jumped the fence. 6. Does Luke like spinach?

Welcome

Philippians 4:8 – “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable– if anything is excellent or praiseworthy– think about such things.”

Prayer

Adjectives

Today, we will be learning about adjectives and some of the different ways that they can be used in a sentence. Can anyone tell me what an adjective is? (An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting.) This means that an adjective is added to help explain a noun more exactly.

Look at chart L while we talk about adjectives, to give a better understanding of where we are.

Ready for the big picture about adjectives?

One-word adjectives:

Descriptive – add detail to a noun or pronoun and tell what kind.

BLUE car/BEAUTIFUL girl/PORCH light

NEW house/LESS talkative/MORE talkative/TALLER boy

LEAST talkative/MOST talkative/TALLEST tower

Possessive – tell whose

MY/OUR

MINE/OURS

TOM’S/HANNAH’S

Limiting – tell how many or which

A, an, the - articles

One, twenty, first - numericals

This, that, these, those - demonstratives

All, another, any - indefinites

What, which, who - interrogatives

Multi-word adjectives

Adjectival phrase – prepositional phrase acting as an adjective.

(Prepositional phrases are always either adjectival or adverbial.)

My dad is a man of great integrity.

Adjectival clause – a subordinate clause that functions as an adjective in a sentence.

My dad, who loves me, instructs me. (we know these as who/which clauses)

Infinitive – an infinitive is “to” plus a verb used as a noun, adjective or adverb.

The one to ask is Mike.

The best way to know if you’re looking at an adjective is to know what questions to ask. If you look on your chart, they are listed at the top of the page.

What kind? Which? How many? Whose?

A few weeks ago, we studied adverbs. Does anyone remember the questions you ask to identify adverbs?

How? When? Where? Why?

How often? How much? To what extent? Under what conditions?

These questions are really important to memorize, so that you can tell the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

Compound/Declarative/S-Vl-PA

There is a reason that we studied adjectives this afternoon. You need to have a basic understanding of adjectives to understand our new sentence pattern: S-Vl-PA.

This pattern very closely resembles the pattern that we learned last week. Does anyone remember what that was? Can you give me an example?

So we have a subject, a linking verb, and a predicate nominative (which renames or equals the subject). Has anyone memorized your entire list of linking verbs yet?

(Write them on the board as they say them.)

feel, become, remain, (and) taste,

seem, appear,

look, sound, stay,

smell, grow, am, is,

are, was, were,

be, being, been.

The first part of our list up here are all the less common linking verbs. The most common linking verbs are the last eight – am, is, are, was, were, be, being, and been. However, this week, we’ll be using the first eleven a little more.

So, our pattern for this week is Subject-Linking verb-predicate adjective. Instead of having a noun that renames or equals the subject at the end of the sentence, we have an adjective. We call this a predicate adjective.

A predicate adjective follows a linking verb (just like a predicate nominative) and describes the subject.

The rose is red.

The rose smells beautiful.

The rose feels soft.

The rose grows limp.

Now, just when you think you’re starting to get this, I’m going to confuse you. Can you tell me if both of these verbs are linking verbs?

The rose smells beautiful. The girl smells the rose.

The rose feels soft. The girl feels the rose.

The tricky thing about these less common linking verbs is that they can play two parts. They can sometimes be linking and sometimes be action.

Here’s the test. Take out the linking verb in each of these sentences and replace it with the word “is”. If “is” can easily replace the verb, it is linking. If not, it is action.

Let’s compare some sentences that have a predicate adjective to those which have a predicate nominative.

Sally is my friend. Sally is beautiful.

Kroger is a store. Kroger is crowded.

Charlotte is my dog. Charlotte is annoying.

Tasks 1-4

Sentence 3

Mastery Charts

Charts L and G

Review charts C/D/K

Where are we on charts? May need to do more than one a day. Don’t forget to work on charts which aren’t on the tablet.