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This guide offers a structured approach to understanding and applying the eight parts of speech and various verbals through hands-on activities. Using a folded paper method to create a grid of 16 squares, students will engage in listing key components, defining verbals, and constructing sentences. Activities include creating sentences with participles, appositives, and both active and passive voice, alongside examples of phrases and pronouns. This interactive method makes grammar fun and applicable in real writing scenarios, ensuring a deeper comprehension of these critical language elements.
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Fold your paper vertically to create 4 columns. Then, fold your paper horizontally 4 times (should look like above chart only with larger squares). 4 x 4 = 16 squares • Scatter the following components in your squares. • -8 parts of speech (list all 8 in one square) • -List the three verbals (all in one square) • -Define a participle, gerund, infinitive (each gets its own square) • -Create a sentence with a present participle (1 square) • -Create a sentence with a past participle (1 sq.) • -Create a sentence in active voice (1 square) • -Create a sentence with passive voice (1 square) • -Create a sentence with an appositive phrase (1 square) • -Create a sentence with an adjectival prepositional phrase (1 square) • -Create a sentence with an adverbial prepositional phrase (1 square) • -Create a sentence with a gerund functioning as . . . (each sentence fills its own square) • -The appositive • -The subject of the sentence • -The direct object • -The object of preposition
Fold your paper vertically to create 4 columns. Then, fold your paper horizontally 4 times (should look like above chart only with larger squares). 4 x 4 = 16 squares • Scatter the following components in your squares: • -List the 8 parts of speech (list all 8 in one square) • -What is a verbal? Write the definition in one square. • -List the three verbals (all in one square) • -Define a participle, gerund, infinitive (each gets its own square) • -List three REFLEXIVE pronouns • -List three third person pronouns • -What is a phrase? • -What is an independent clause? • -Create a sentence in active voice (1 square) • -Create a sentence with passive voice (1 square) • -Create a sentence with an appositive phrase (1 square) • -Create a sentence with an adjectival prepositional phrase (1 square) • -Create a sentence with an adverbial prepositional phrase (1 square) • -Create a sentence with a future tense verb phrase that has a helping verb and action verb (1 square)
Review Gerunds 1.) A gerund functions nominally as the subject of the sentence. Examples: -Giggling over gerunds makes grammar fun! -Drinking hot cocoa on a cold day is delightful. -Since Joe was five years old, swimming has been his passion. Quick Test: Replace the gerund phrase with “it.” -It makes grammar fun! -It is delightful. -It has been his passion.
2.) A gerund can also function nominally in the sentence as the direct object. Examples: -I love drinking hot cocoa on a cold day. -Joe hates swimming at five in the morning. Test: Locate the verb in the sentence and ask what? -love what? -hates what?
3.) A gerund can also function as the object of preposition. Examples: -I cheer myself up on a cold day by drinking hot cocoa. -Joe reconciles his hatred by missing most five am practices. Tip: find the prepositions, then find the gerund phrase
4.) A gerund can function nominally in the sentence as an appositive. Examples: -My favorite winter activity, drinking hot cocoa, warms my soul. -Joe’s passion, swimming at five pm, will never die.
