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 DECEMBER 6:

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

• Capitalization of day and city
• Questions marks as end marks
• Apostrophes in contractions
• Quotation marks in dialogue
• Usage of to and too

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".  We practice dividing the subject from the predicate.

This week we'll begin the usage of prepositions and prepositional phrases, including the object of the preposition.