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I taught subjects, predicates and the different types of sentences.

I own a tutoring centre and today I taught a grade 4 student about subjects, predicates and the different types of sentences.

Subjects and Predicates

I handed her a subjects and predicates worksheet and asked her to read the quick review.

“Do you understand it?”

“Kind of,” she answered.

“Okay, I’ll explain it to you.”

I grabbed a dry-erase marker and wrote a sentence.

“So, for these questions, you have to circle the subject of each sentence and underline the predicate. Got it?”

“Yes.”

I helped her with the first two questions and she was able to do the rest.

Next, we worked on simple and complete subjects, and simple and complete predicates.

I wrote down another sentence and broke down what each was.

• The two bears ate soup.

I explained that “The two bears” was the complete subject of the sentence. 

And then I explained to her that the word “bear” was the simple subject because it was the main noun; it was what the sentence was about.

Next, I explained the predicate. I told her that “ate soup” was the complete predicate and the word “ate” was the simple predicate.

She was a little confused by why.

“‘Ate’ is the simple predicate because it is the main verb or action. It’s what the bears are doing,” I said.

“Oh, ok. So, it’s the action that the bears are doing?”

“Yes. So, for this first page, you have to circle the simple subject and underline the complete subject. On the next page, you do the same thing with the predicates of each sentence.”

Again, I helped her with the first two questions on each page.

She had a little bit more trouble on this worksheet and made a couple of mistakes. I explained them to her and she understood why it was wrong.

We had about half an hour left in our session, so I gave her another grammar worksheet. 

After she read it, I wrote down the types of sentences and gave an example for each.

I told her that declarative sentences are statements or general sentences.

For Example: “He went to the store.”

Interrogative sentences are questions.

For Example: “When can we leave?”

Imperative sentences are, I told her, commands or sentences that you use to tell someone to do something.

For Example: “Go clean your room.”

Exclamatory sentences are sentences that show excitement.

For Example: “Yay! We Won!”

She understood it quickly so I just explained to her how to do the questions.

After 15 minutes, she finished the worksheet.

We still had a little bit of time left and I decided to give her some spelling games to finish off the session.

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