Study guide · Weekly Quiz 28 — Grade 3
Grade 1 grammar · quiz is on Lesson 125 ·
this went home after Lesson 124
For the parent. Your child has been learning about subject, action verb predicate (avp), direct object, linking verb predicate (lvp), subject complement, phrases, objects of prepositions, prepositions. There is a short quiz tomorrow. It is low stakes and not graded — it is so the teacher can see who needs a little more help.
For you. Tomorrow's quiz is about subject, action verb predicate (avp), direct object, linking verb predicate (lvp), subject complement, phrases, objects of prepositions, prepositions. Here is what is on it.
Subject
What your child has been taught to say:
A subject is who or what the sentence is about.
The question they ask themselves:
“Who or what is this about?”
The boy ran fast. → subject
Ask “Who or what is this about?” — it works, so it is subject.
teacher → subject
Ask “Who or what is this about?” — it works, so it is subject.
Watch for this: Marks the first word rather than the subject — “Who or what is it ABOUT? Say the whole naming part.”
Avp
What your child has been taught to say:
A action verb predicate (avp) is what the subject does.
The question they ask themselves:
“What does the subject do?”
The boy ran fast. → action verb predicate (avp)
Ask “What does the subject do?” — it works, so it is action verb predicate (avp).
opened the door → action verb predicate (avp)
Ask “What does the subject do?” — it works, so it is action verb predicate (avp).
Watch for this: Marks only the single verb when the predicate is longer — “He ran WHAT? Where? Say all of it.”
Direct object
What your child has been taught to say:
A direct object is the thing that receives the action.
The question they ask themselves:
“Verb — what? or whom?”
The boy kicked the ball. → direct object
Ask “Verb — what? or whom?” — it works, so it is direct object.
the red ball → direct object
Ask “Verb — what? or whom?” — it works, so it is direct object.
Watch for this: Finds a direct object where there is none — “He ran WHAT? There is no answer, so there is no direct object.”
Try these together
These are new sentences — your child has not seen them. Five minutes is plenty.
The gardener whistled.
My neighbor waved.
The tailor pressed the cloth.
She folded the map.
The child drew a house.
He filled the jug.
Answers — for the grown-up helping
| 1 | the subject |
| 2 | the subject |
| 3 | the action verb predicate (avp) |
| 4 | the action verb predicate (avp) |
| 5 | the direct object |
| 6 | the direct object |
If it is hard: Pick up any book and read one sentence together. Ask the question in the blue box about one word in it. Five minutes is plenty — and if it is still hard tomorrow, please tell the teacher; there is a practice sheet for exactly this.