Pleasant Valley Intermediate 4th Grade Resources
Journey's Grammar Skills
Complete Sentences
A complete sentence tells a complete thought, tells what happened, tells who or what it's about, begins with a capital letter, and ends with punctuation.
Example: The dog ran in the house.
This sentence includes a complete thought about a dog (who it's about). The dog is running (what happened) in the house. This sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period.
Subjects and Predicates
The subject tells you "who" or "what."
The predicate is the "action part."
Example: The boys are working hard.
subject predicate
'The boys' are the subject of the sentence and 'are working hard' is the action or predicate.
Prepositions
A preposition is a word or group of words that combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase.
Nouns
A noun is a person, place, animal, or thing. A noun can be a proper noun or a common noun.
Proper noun: Pennsylvania
Common noun: state
Nouns can also be singular or plural.
Singular noun: cat
Plural noun: cats
Adjectives
A part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun.
Example: The tall tree is in the backyard.
Tall is describing the noun, tree.
Conjunctions
A conjunction is a word used to connect two thoughts or sentences.
List of conjunctions: and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so, although, because, since, unless.
Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.
Examples coud be: I, me, he, she, herself, you.
Regualr Verbs
Irregular Verbs &
Abbreviations
An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase.
Transitions
Process of changing from one thought to another.
Simple and Compound Sentence Practice
A compound sentence is a sentence that contains two complete ideas (clauses) that are related.
Example: I watched a movie and ate popcorn.
A simple sentence is a sentence that contains one complete thought or idea.
Example: I went to the mall.
Verbs
A verb is word used to describe an action. The verb forms the main part of the predicate in a sentence.
Example: Jimmy looks for rocks.
The verb looks describes the action that
Jimmy is doing.
Simple Verb Tenses
The simple verb tense refers to past, present and future tenses. Past refers to something that already happened. Present refers to what is happening right now. Future refers to something that will happen.
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Commas
A comma is a punctation mark that is used to indicate a pause in a sentence, to seperate items in a list, or to seperate a date and year of an event.
Sally went to the mall, but she forgot her money.
She went to the store to buy eggs, milk, and bread.
Joe was born on June 6th, 2005.
Adverbs
Part of speech that modifys a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
Participles
A definition for Participles is provided in the 'Participles Explanation' link. Click on the button for the definition!
Example of Irregular Verb:
Awake- Awoke- Awoken
When the word 'awake' is in the past tense, 'd' or 'ed' is not added to the end. All irregular verbs do not follow the add 'd' or 'ed' at the end for past tense rule. Instead, another word is put in place to represent the past event.
