Shurley English Helps

V:  Verb - Action Word

SN:  Subject Noun - Person, Place, Thing, Idea

ADV:  Adverb - Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb

ADJ:  Adjective - Modifies a noun or pronoun

A:  Article - There are only three:  a, an, the

SP:  Subject Pronoun - Pronoun that takes the place of a noun (he, it)

PP:  Possessive Pronoun - Pronoun that shows ownership (ie: my, his, our)

P:  Preposition - A word that shows the relationship of its object to other words in the sentence (ie: in, on, beside, around, of, upon) Hint:  Most prepositions name a "position" such as "on" the table or "in" the garden.

OP:  Object of the Preposition - the noun after the preposition

(  ):  Parenthesis mark the Prepositional Phrase:  a group of words that starts with a preposition, ends with a noun or pronoun object, and includes any modifiers of that object, including articles

/:  Divides the complete subject from the complete predicate

D:  Declarative Sentence:  a sentence that makes a statement and ends with a period.

PP:  Possessive Pronoun:  a pronoun indicating possession (for example:  mine, yours, hers, theirs)

LANGUAGE FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 18:

Daily Language:  This week the children will complete their two-week study of:

• Combining two simple sentence to make one compound sentence with the conjunctions:  and, but, or.

Shurley English:  The children will continue studying Verbs, Subject Nouns, Adverbs, and Adjectives while classifying sentences.  Adverbs modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb.  Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns.  We've added Article Adjectives, "a", "an", "the".  This week we'll add a discussion of subject and predicate and a line in the sentence being diagramed to divide one from the other.