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 SEPT. 27th:

Daily Language:  This week the children will begin a two-week study of:

• Quotation marks in dialogue
• Apostrophes to show singular possession
• Declarative & Interrogative Sentences
• Apostrophes in Contractions
• Capitalization of the first word
• End Marks

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're also adding Article Adjectives, "a", "an", "the".