You are going to learn some new categories for words today. Stop and take notes and write them down since it is mighty hard to remember new things if you treat them like a television show, as something you are just observing. My methods work best for people willing to interact with our living language.
After this lesson, you should be able to identify compound subjects, compound nouns, compound objects, and one "conjunction."
Do you remember way back when you were learning simple math? Do you remember 1 + 1? You said, "One and one." Well this lesson builds on that usage of "+," the "and." The word "and" when it appears in a sentence can have several usages. But I am not running a deep-level grammar class, just helping you fix your sentence skill issues such as fragments, run-ons, comma-splices, and such-like. I am going to simplify the heck out of the discussion and simply ask you to accept the label "and" is a "conjunction" used to create a sentence part called "compound subject noun," "compound verb" or compound object noun." So "and" is the equivalent of a you saying "plus" in a match equation, and the category it fits within is "and" = "conjunction."
Confusing, right? Well, interact with the video and then read below.
A conjunction "pounds" two subject nouns into one unit.
A conjunction "pounds" two object nouns into one unit.
A conjunction "pounds" two verbs into one unit.
Draw these sentences, and label each word with the category it fits within.
1. Sandy and Leslie drink gin.
2. Tom and Sue watch television.
3. Tom loves apples and oranges.
4. Brian eats and drinks at the bar.
5. The cat on the couch sat and purred.
Note that it is possible to have compound subjects, compound verbs, and compound objects all in the same sentence.
Sandy and Leslie ordered and drank martinis and margaritas.
Now come up with several of your own, every day. Notice the use of compounds and propositions in sentence you read. Note the way words and sentences interact with us in the world around us. And tune back in next week. Or hire me.
After this lesson, you should be able to identify compound subjects, compound nouns, compound objects, and one "conjunction."
Do you remember way back when you were learning simple math? Do you remember 1 + 1? You said, "One and one." Well this lesson builds on that usage of "+," the "and." The word "and" when it appears in a sentence can have several usages. But I am not running a deep-level grammar class, just helping you fix your sentence skill issues such as fragments, run-ons, comma-splices, and such-like. I am going to simplify the heck out of the discussion and simply ask you to accept the label "and" is a "conjunction" used to create a sentence part called "compound subject noun," "compound verb" or compound object noun." So "and" is the equivalent of a you saying "plus" in a match equation, and the category it fits within is "and" = "conjunction."
Confusing, right? Well, interact with the video and then read below.
A conjunction "pounds" two subject nouns into one unit.
A conjunction "pounds" two object nouns into one unit.
A conjunction "pounds" two verbs into one unit.
Draw these sentences, and label each word with the category it fits within.
1. Sandy and Leslie drink gin.
2. Tom and Sue watch television.
3. Tom loves apples and oranges.
4. Brian eats and drinks at the bar.
5. The cat on the couch sat and purred.
Note that it is possible to have compound subjects, compound verbs, and compound objects all in the same sentence.
Sandy and Leslie ordered and drank martinis and margaritas.
Now come up with several of your own, every day. Notice the use of compounds and propositions in sentence you read. Note the way words and sentences interact with us in the world around us. And tune back in next week. Or hire me.
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