LESSON 7: SUBJECTS, NOUNS, VERB PHRASES

ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, & QUIZ

Review

Lessons 1-3

• Sentences need to have a subject and a verb.

• Subjects tell us whom or what a sentence is about.
• Subjects can be nouns or pronouns.
• Verbs tell us what the subject is or does.
• Verb phrases are made of one or more helping verbs and one main
verb.
• Words can be categorized into eight parts of speech.
• Nouns and verbs are two of the parts of speech.

Lesson 4

• Imperative sentences give commands.

• The subject of all imperative sentences is you understood or (you).
• Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns.
• Pronouns are one of the parts of speech.

Lesson 5

• Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns.

• Adjectives are one of the parts of speech.
• Adjective Questions
o Which one? What kind? How many? Whose?

Lesson 6

• Adverbs are words that describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
• Adverbs are one of the parts of speech.
• Adverb Questions
o How? When? Where? Why? To what extent?

For this lesson, you’ll diagram five sentences and then you’ll have a quiz.

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Lesson 8 Sentence Diagramming Exercises

1. Walk slowly.

Key

Walk slowly. sentence - command/ imperative

(you)

Walk

adverb modifying walk

answers How?

2. The white feather floated gracefully.

Key

The white feather floated gracefully. sentence – statement

subject (noun)

floated

adjective modifying feather

answers Which one?

white

gracefully

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3. I can’t* go tomorrow.

* Negatives like never and not are adverbs. In this sentence, n’t is a contraction of the
word not.

Negatives are usually in the middle of verb phrases just like in this sentence.

Don’t be fooled! They aren’t part of the verb. They are adverbs. It’s a little strange, but
think of them as answering the adverb question To what extent?

Key

sentence – statement

subject (pronoun)

can go

can

go

n’t (not)

tomorrow

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4. Where did she go?

Key

Where did she go?

She did go where.

she

did go

did

go

Where

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5. The small kitten pleadingly meowed.

Key

The small kitten pleadingly meowed. sentence – statement

subject (noun)

verb

adjective modifying kitten

answers Which one?

small

pleadingly

Get ready. It’s time for a quiz!  

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