Language Tree SB 6

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WB 6 p35

2 Find the helping verb in each of these sentences. 1 He has ordered coffee. 2 I don’t like coffee. 3 I will ask for juice instead. 4 The girls are arguing.

5 The teacher is coming over. 6 She will tell them off. 7 The girls did not see her. 8 I am going home.

There are four different types of sentences: Statement: I always work hard at school.

Question: Where is Jason? Exclamation: That’s amazing! Instruction: Put the juice in the fridge.

Which type of sentence is it? 1 Do you know what that word means? 2 I will look in the dictionary. 3 We won!

4 How will we find out? 5 We can do some research together. 6 That sounds great!

Subject and predicate

Every sentence is made up of a subject and predicate. The subject of the sentence performs the action. The predicate is the part which contains the verb. subject predicate Karin

was competing against some excellent swimmers.

Her parents

watched.

Divide the following sentences into subject and predicate. subject predicate

1 The three students sang the song they had prepared. 2 The rest of the class clapped loudly. 3 The other boys stopped playing football. 4 One of them ran over to help. 5 Tobias’ dad arrived and asked what was going on. 6 The football game started again after a while.

• The verb in the predicate must agree with the subject. There is more work on subject–verb agreement on page 26.

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