Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

My name is Ms. Madden.

In today's lesson, we're going to be doing a spotlight focus on grammar.

Let's get started.

In today's lesson, we are going to start by classifying parts of a sentence.

We're going to think about subject, verb and object.

And finally, we will look at sentences and identify the subject, verb and object.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper to write on, a pencil or a pen to write with and your thinking brain, of course.

Press pause and get those things now.

Classifying parts of a sentence.

First of all, we're going to match the label to the correct part of the sentence.

I'm going to read the sentence out first.

"Molly watched the graceful bird "as it hovered in the vivid cloudless sky." I would like you to identify which words in this sentence are the following word classes.

So we have a verb.

What's a verb? Yes, a verb is a doing or a being word.

We have a noun.

What's a noun? A person, place or thing.

We have an adjective.

What's an adjective? Yes, an adjective describes a noun.

And finally we have a pronoun.

What's a pronoun? A pronoun stands in place of a noun.

And there's that clue because it's got the word noun in it.

So can you find examples of those word classes in this sentence? Some might have one, some might have more than one example.

Press pause and identify them by saying aloud now.

Okay, let's have a look through.

Did you find examples of every one? We'll start with verbs.

As you can see, there are two verbs in this sentence.

Molly watched, so Molly is doing the watching and the bird hovered, so hovered is our verb.

And both of these verbs are in the past tense and they have the suffix E-D.

Did you find any nouns, a person, place or thing? We have three nouns in this sentence.

Molly, and Molly is a person, and so she has a capital letter.

Bird, a thing, and sky, a thing.

We had the three nouns.

Did you find any adjectives? Yes, we had adjectives describing two of our nouns.

So we had the adjective graceful describing the bird and we had two adjectives, vivid and cloudless, both describing sky.

Finally, were there any pronouns? Something standing in place of a noun? Yes, we have the pronoun it.

Which noun was the it replacing? "Molly watched the graceful bird "as it hovered in the vivid, cloudless sky." Yes, the it was replacing the bird.

Good job.

So we've just practised some of our word class.

Now we're going to move on to a different way about thinking about sentences, subject, verb, which we know, and object.

So this might be new to you and don't worry if it is.

It's just another way that we can think about what's happening in a sentence.

So we have our subject, verb and object.

Now below, I've just introduced you to the meaning of these, but they're jumbled up.

So out of subject, verb, and object, one of them means the action being performed.

Now I think you probably know this one because we just practised it.

Which of these means an action? Something doing, the action being performed.

One of them is the recipient of the action, and one of them is the person or thing performing the action.

Now, if you do know this already, then can you match these? If you don't and this is new learning, that's fine.

Perhaps you could have a guess.

Press pause and have a think now.

Okay, let's see what it was.

The subject of a sentence is the person or thing, the noun, that is performing the action.

It's doing the doing, the subject.

The verb, you probably got this one, is the action being performed.

Now we know that verbs can be doing or being words.

When we're thinking about subject, verb, object, it's often the verb is doing.

And finally that means the object is the recipient of the action, it's being done to.

I know this all sounds a little abstract, but it will start to make sense.

Here's a sentence.

"Molly watched the spirit-bird in the sky." Can you identify the subject, who's doing, or who or what is doing the doing? The verb, what's the doing? What is the action? And the object, the recipient of the action? Press pause and try and identify those words now.

Okay, you can see with my colour coding that the subject of the sentence is Molly.

She is doing the doing.

And what is she doing? She's doing the verb and the verb is watched, a past tense verb.

So Molly is the subject, watch is the verb, and what is she watching? She's watching the spirit-bird.

The spirit-bird is the object.

In English, we commonly go subject, verb, object.

It's not the same in all languages, but in English, we tend to follow our sentences with a subject, then the verb, then the object, generally.

You can see here, I've written S, V and O for short.

That can be a useful way to scribe when we're identifying which one is which.

Okay, now is your turn to do some more identifying of the subject, verb, and object.

As you can see, here we have three sentences.

I'm going to read each of these sentences to you, and then I want you to pause the video, write them down and circle the subject in each sentence and underline the object in each sentence.

Here they are.

"The brave girls hid behind the broken shed." Number two, "Molly, the eldest child, "watched the visitor from behind the bench." And thirdly, "The lizard scrambled up the tree in panic." Now pause the video, write these down, circle the subject, underline the object.

Well done.

Let's go through these.

In our first sentence, the girls was the subject, a plural noun.

The shed was the object.

It's what they hid behind.

That was the other thing, the other noun.

In the second sentence, Molly is the subject.

She is doing the doing.

And the object is the visitor.

Now, this one's a bit trickier because there were more nouns in this sentence.

We had Molly, the eldest child, but the eldest child, that's just explaining who Molly is.

Molly is the subject.

And then watched the visitor, so the visitor is our object, from behind the bench, that's just extra information.

The visitor is who is being watched.

So if there's more than two nouns in the sentence, this can be a little tricky.

In our third sentence, the lizard is doing the scrambling.

The lizard is the subject.

And what's the lizard scrambling up? The tree.

So the tree is the object.

How did you do with that? Don't worry.

It can take some time to get used to.

Now, can you identify the verb in each of these sentences? Press pause and do that now.

Okay, in the first sentence the girls were hiding.

The verb is hid, that past tense verb.

In the second sentence, the verb is watched.

Molly watched.

And in the third sentence, the verb is scrambled.

There were three past tense verbs.

Now your turn to make up a sentence.

Can you make up a sentence to describe this image and then identify the subject, verb and object in your sentence? Press pause and do that now.

Here's my example.

Here's my sentence.

"Beneath the trees, "the family tracked the terrified lizard." Here's my subject, the family.

Here's my verb, tracked.

And here's my object, lizard, the lizard.

So can you remember how to define each of these terms, subject, verb and object? I'd like you to press pause and say your definition aloud now.

Okay, let's check.

Did you say this subject is the person or thing performing the action? It's always a noun, isn't it? Did you say the verb is the action being performed? And finally, did you say the object is the recipient of the action? Well done.

Congratulations.

You have revised your parts of a sentence, you revised some of your word class, then we focused on subject, verb and object, and you identified the subject, verb and object in some given sentences.

Congratulations, you have completed your lesson.