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In this lesson we'll subject you to some verbs and predicates. Each one is a necessary part of a complete breakfas—er...sentence.
Choosing words carefully is important. You may end up vexing the assemblage of citizens you're conversing with...or you might even just plain bore...
ELA 4: Parts of Speech 564 Views
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In order to make a sentence you need three ingredients. A noun, a verb, and bacon...wait. Let's try that again. A noun, a bacon, and a pile of bacon. Hm. That went even worse. Just watch the video while we baconize ourselves.
Transcript
- 00:04
[Coop and Dino singing]
- 00:13
If you've ever made a sandwich, you probably know how important it is to include all of [Woman making a sandwich]
- 00:17
the ingredients.
- 00:18
A PB&J is not a PB&J without the P&B.
- 00:21
But…it's still pretty delicious. [Girl eating a PB&J sandwich]
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- 00:23
Mmmm, jelly…
- 00:25
Anyway, sentences are exactly the same.
- 00:27
…Well, okay, not exactly.
- 00:29
We don't recommend eating them, no matter how covered in jelly they are. [Man eating a jelly covered sentence]
- 00:32
But in order to make a meaningful and effective sentence, you need three ingredients:
- 00:36
A noun, a verb, and an adjective.
- 00:39
Some jelly wouldn't hurt either… [Jelly added to a sentence recipe]
- 00:41
So let's break down our ingredients: a noun is a word that is used to identify a person,
- 00:45
place or thing.
- 00:46
Clown.
- 00:47
Weasel.
- 00:47
Rubber band.
- 00:48
Root beer.
- 00:49
These are all nouns.
- 00:50
And the ingredients for one super fun, super weird party. [Clown and weasel at a party]
- 00:53
A verb is a word used to describe an action or occurrence.
- 00:56
To run.
- 00:57
To skip.
- 00:58
To eat.
- 00:59
To play.
- 01:00
To watch Shmoop videos. [Girl watching shmoop video]
- 01:02
Those are all verbs.
- 01:03
Lastly, an adjective is a word used to describe a noun.
- 01:06
Funny.
- 01:07
Delicious.
- 01:07
Angry.
- 01:08
Hairy.
- 01:09
Tall.
- 01:09
All of these describe something and are therefore adjectives. [Adjectives, noun and verb added to a magician hat]
- 01:12
Put ‘em all together (in the correct order) and what do you get?
- 01:15
A sandwich!
- 01:17
Whoops… we meant a sentence! [Sandwich transforms into sentence]
- 01:19
“A funny clown runs.”
- 01:20
“A delicious weasel skips.”
- 01:23
“An angry rubber band eats.” [Rubber band eating a sandwich]
- 01:25
These are all examples of basic sentences with a noun, a verb and an adjective.
- 01:29
They might not make sense, but they sure are sentences.
- 01:32
And it's important to remember that the way you write and the way you speak are two totally
- 01:37
different things.
- 01:38
While you might say “Okay” or “Cool” as sentences in speech, those don't really [Man talking on a mobile phone]
- 01:42
work in writing – after all, where the heck is the noun, the adjective and the verb?
- 01:48
Those are what we call sentence fragments and should be avoided. [Coop discussing sentence fragments]
- 01:52
Though feel free to use them in text messages, which are basically the Wild West of writing…
- 01:56
No laws out here, partner.
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In this lesson we'll subject you to some verbs and predicates. Each one is a necessary part of a complete breakfas—er...sentence.
Choosing words carefully is important. You may end up vexing the assemblage of citizens you're conversing with...or you might even just plain bore...