Sentence Parts That Add Detail (Grades 7 and 8)
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Sentence Parts That Add Detail (Grades 7 and 8)
Sentence parts for Grades 7 and 8: name indirect objects, predicate nouns, predicate adjectives, participles, and adverbial phrases, choose the sentence these parts give the most detail and depth, tell a predicate noun from a predicate adjective, then write sentences with an indirect object, a predicate noun, and a predicate adjective. With an answer key.
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Sentence Parts That Add DetailA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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Tell a phrase from a clause and an independent clause from a dependent one, find relative clauses, and say what a phrase or clause does in its sentence: describe a noun, tell how, when, where or why, or work as a noun.
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How to use this sheet
- Have the child find the subject and the verb of each sentence first.
- Read each sentence aloud and ask "Does it make sense on its own?"
- For joining sentences, have the child try two conjunctions and choose the one that shows the right meaning.
Common mistakes
- Writing a fragment, such as "Because it was raining." It needs a main clause.
- Joining two sentences with only a comma. Use a conjunction, a semicolon or a period.
- Calling a long sentence a run-on. A run-on joins sentences wrongly; a long sentence can be correct.
- Putting a modifier far from the word it describes, as in "I saw a dog on the way to school with spots".
