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Part One looked at the form of nouns. Many concepts introduced in this section will appear again later in this book. Next, let’s ...

1.8 When Nouns Become Subjects Nouns have specific jobs to do when placed within a sentence. These jobs are labeled as subjects, ...

Any type of noun can become a subject. Nouns referring to people often act as subjects and are easily recognized: Nouns referrin ...

In this example, the noun pool is the thing about which something is said. The verb opens tells what is happening to the subject ...

The words hamburgers and hot dogs are the compound subject in this sentence. A compound subject is composed of two or more nouns ...

Example with Relationship: the pool’s diving board the pool diving board Am,are,is,was, and were are all forms of the most commo ...

If the singular form of the noun does end ins, add only the apostrophe (’). You can apply the same rule to plural possessive nou ...

When showing possession, you can choose between two options to indicate that relationship. We just explained the use of an apost ...

1.12 What Is a Sentence? Building Blocks and Units Building blocks used together form a unit. You have learned that a noun becom ...

Use a period to indicate that your sentence or unit is complete: The hamburger is the winner. Possessive nouns also show a conne ...

1.13 When Verbs Expand to Include Objects: Direct Objects Look at the following example to see how adding another noun to a sent ...

Nouns Used as Subjects (perform the action) Action Verbs Nouns Used as Direct Objects (receive the action) Charles Jake Ben Mar ...

It is important to recognize how the different parts relate to each other. Take the example of the Miller family. A mother and f ...

Charles writes a book. Jake eats a hamburger. Ben loves Susan. Maria swims a lap. Question WordVerb Question WordVerb Question W ...

Example:aroundthe pool Preposition Object of Preposition This section explained nouns used as direct objects. The next section i ...

In this example, under the lifeguard chair, the preposition under takes the noun lifeguard chair as the object of the prepositio ...

Mariaswims. The student is Maria. Maria’s bathing suit Anna loves Maria. The gift is for Maria. Maria as Subject: Maria as Subje ...

1.16 Review Exercises A Determine whether or not the word in red type is a noun. If it is a noun, write Y for yes; if it is not ...

E Write the possessive form of each noun. Example: boy Y boy’s trees ____ bike ____ Chris ____ building ____ cars ____ F Under ...

27 2.1 What Is an Adjective? 28 2.2 Descriptive Adjectives 28 2.3 Determiners or Limiting Adjectives 29 2.4 Suffixes and Origin ...