Objects, Complements, and Linking Verbs

Thank you for your posts. Some of your classmates have not posted yet. If you can reach them to let them know they should post, please do!

99% of the posts from the last assignment correctly identified subjects and predicates and also correctly created simple, complex, compound, and compound/complex sentences.

Some posts labeled the simple predicate (i.e. the verb), while other posts labeled the complete predicate (i.e. everything after the subject). While either label is acceptable, note that the complete predicate might contain OBJECTS and COMPLEMENTS.

Please study the link below to learn about this important sentence part:

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/objcompl.html

Please also study the section on LINKING VERBS on that page.

For this post (DUE BY September 6th):

• Choose the post of a classmate (from among the "Sentence Types" posts that were due by August 20th).

• At the start of your new post, write your name and the name of the person whose post you chose.

• Rewrite the sentences contained in that post, but do not rewrite your classmate's labels.

• Label the objects or complements.

• Label the linking verbs if there are any; if not, just label the verb (a.k.a. simple predicate).

Sentence Types PLUS Subjects and Predicates

Thank you for your posts. Some of your classmates have not posted yet. If you can reach them to let them know they should post, please do!

Some posts include incomplete dependent clauses. Remember, a clause has to have a noun and a verb. For example, "After the game (noun)" is NOT a clause, but "After the girls (noun) left (verb)" is a clause. Please recheck your last post to make sure that all your dependent clauses have both a noun and a verb in them. Please repost any corrections.

As a class, we possess a basic understanding of dependent and independent clauses. To build on that knowledge, please read and take notes on the four types of sentences listed on the Sentence Types page:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/573/02/

After two posts where we successfully identified parts of speech (nouns, verbs, pronouns), we can now learn a different (but complementary) set of labels for the words in a sentence. Please read and take notes on subjects and predicates at this page:

http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/subjpred.html

The most clear and helpful part of the subject/predicate page is the part labeled “Simple Subject and Simple Predicate”. For extra practice, you may also want to take advantage of the subject and predicate review links in the left column of that page.

For this post (DUE BY AUGUST 20th):

· Create one simple sentence.

· Create one compound sentence.

· Create one complex sentence.

· Create one compound-complex sentence.

· Label the predicate(s) and subject(s) in each sentence.

· Label the dependent and independent clauses in each sentence.