Compound It

Summary
Introducing compound subjects

Objectives
• Introduce compound subjects.

• Give definitions and examples of compound subjects.

• Students underline compound subjects in sentences.

• A list of statements is given for review. Students mark them as true or false.

• Students are asked to write their own simple sentences using specific guidelines.

Suggested Grades
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade

Excerpt
Every sentence must have a subject and a predicate. Subjects answer the question ? who or what is the sentence about? Subjects come from two parts of speech ? nouns or pronouns. Subjects can be either simple or complete.

The simple subject is the main word or words in a complete subject.
The complete subject is the simple subject and all the words that go with it. All the adjectives or articles that modify or describe the simple subject become part of the complete subject.

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