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Unit 2
Subject and verb
WB 4 p23
Every sentence has a subject and a verb . The subject is the person, animal or thing which does the action. To find the subject: Ask who or what is carrying out the action ( verb )? The answer is the subject. Jolene plays the recorder. The drums crash. Who plays? Jolene What crashes? The drums The subject is Jolene. The subject is The drums .
3 What is the subject of each of these sentences? Example: The music finished. Subject è The music 1 Mom sings.
5 Mom and Dad clap.
2 The door closes.
6 The children love the puppy.
3 Grandad sits.
7 They catch the bus.
4 The concert begins.
8 The bus stops.
4 Write these sentences. Underline the subject and circle the verb. Example: My books are on the table. are
1 Jordan plays the guitar.
4 We eat lunch at one. 5 My friend sits over there.
2 The family goes to the concert. 3 The puppy sleeps in his basket.
6 I like banana bread.
Simple present tense
• Simple present tense verbs tell us what is always done or is done regularly. I play the guitar. She practises her recorder every day. • If the subject is one person or one thing, the verb ends in ‘s’.
He, She, Jordan, Mom
I, You, We, They sing in the choir.
sing s in the choir.
• Subject–verb agreement: Help students to see that the third person singular form is the only one that changes. Although ‘I’ is always singular and ‘you’ is sometimes singular, they do not add ‘s’ in the present tense. CR Give students a sentence such as "He plays football." and ask how they would say it in Creole. Is it different? If so in what way? • For an explanation of subject and predicate, see page 39.
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