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Day 14 Intro to Tone, Subject Practice, and Flyswatter Agenda Warm Up Flyswatter Research Paper resources Hard to Find Subjects Subject Practice Closure Objectives: Identify subjects in a sentence. Understand hard-to-find subjects Homework: 4 Sources due on Tuesday 1 filled out form per source All sources printed out and annotated VCR 2 Quiz Monday Warm Up Identify the parts of speech in the following sentences. 1. An honest man should have been the leader of the country. 2. Curt’s favorite toy is his big truck. 3. Student’s favorite food must be pizza. 4. The alarm must be ringing again and again. 5. My homes have been a school house, an old apartment, and a moved-in house. Turn in your warm-ups. Genos Genus Genui Gentis Progeny Progenitor Ingenious Congenital Engender Genre Heterogeneous Gentry Genocide Genealogy Genteel Gentile Homogeneous Generis Genesis Indigenous Research Paper Introduction Go to Google Classroom and click the proquest link. This is where you will be getting all of your sources for your research paper. Follow along with me on your laptops. http://proxy141.nclive.org/login?url=http://search.proq uest.com/pqcentral Hard to Find Subjects 1. Imperatives Sentences- command ex. Sit down. ex. Take out the trash. ex. Brush your teeth. The subject is not in the sentence because it is understood that the person being spoken to is the subject of the sentence. ex. (“You”) Sit down. Commands are not fragments. Direct address is not the subject. ex. Billy, take a bath tonight. ex. Stop biting your nails, Melinda. 2. Interrogative Sentences- Questions * most questions will have a verb phrase (more than one verb) that is separated by the subject...a SUBJECT SANDWICH ex. Are you sleeping in this weekend? ex. Will Gina pass this class? ex. Has someone been eating beans? In other questions, the subject could be Who, What, or Which ex. Who is talking? ex. What is rotting? ex. Which is yours? ****BUT not always*** ex. What are you talking about? ex. Which girl are you dating? ex. Who is Jason voting for? In other questions, the subject is just after the verb ex. Is music your favorite class? ex. Are aliens real? 3. Sentences that begin with “Here” or “There” * These words are never the subject * Ask “Who or What is here?” or “Who or What is there?” ex. Here comes my favorite movie star. ex. There is a hair in my soup. 4. Inverted Sentences * a sentence that begins with detail and saves subject until the end ex. On top of the skyscraper in the city is a flag. ex. Over the river and through the woods was an old, abandoned log cabin. Find the Subject and Verb 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Oregon is haunted by numerous legends of the Bigfoot. Are two of the books missing? She served as corporation president. Jazz music filled the room. There is Aunt Ivory’s new truck truck. Find the Subject and Verb 6. Please answer the phone. (understood you) 7. Was the train late? (hint: turn the question into a statement) 8. Many regions of the United States have local legends. (Prep phrase) 9. The band’s star performer was the drummer. 10. Buzzing around the room was a large mosquito. Hard to Find Subjects Get into your pairs and take everything off of your desk. Take a worksheet and complete it. Whatever you don’t complete is homework. Ask your partner if you have a question about the assignment. Only ask me as a last resort. Closure List three things you learned about nonfiction today. Describe two of the steps needed to understand nonfiction. Compose one question you still have regarding nonfiction.