Welcome to Language Arts!

• Make sure you have all of your class materials: notebook, textbooks, novels, pencil, paper

• Walk your DOG (5.1)

• Put your graded papers away in your notebook. Remember to check them off on your neon green sheet first!

• If you aren’t sure where it goes, raise your hand and I will help you

Announcement• Due to an error in my planning, we will have

to change the name of one of your notebook sections.

• Luckily, there is nothing in this section yet so it should not cause any problems.

• Change LSP (spelling) to LNOTES • We will use the new section to put notes and

handouts that will help us study for tests.

This Week:

• Notebooks and Literature Response Journals are due tomorrow.

• Notebook 1st check = 10% of your grade.

• Novel project is 10% of your grade. – One day late: -20% – Two days late: -40%– Don’t be late!

This Week:

• We will begin working on verbs.– Helping verbs– Linking Verbs– Irregular Verbs– All the verbs you could ever dream of!

Verb Phrase

Verb phrase—consists of a main verb preceded byat least one helping verb (auxiliary verb)

Besides all forms of the verb be, helping verbs include

Forms of Be:

am is are was were

be being been

Forms of Do:

Do does did

Forms of Have:

Have has had

Other Helping Verbs:

can could should

may must would

might shall will

Notice how helping verbs work

together with main verbs to make a

complete verb phrase.

EXAMPLE:

is leaving may becomemight have remainedhad seemed should move might have thought shall be going could jump does sing

Sometimes the parts of a

verb phrase are interrupted

by other parts of speech.

• Did you hear President Bush’s speech?

• Has the D.J. played the new CD for you?

EXAMPLE:

She had always been thinkingof her future.

We could never have moved thebleachers.

NOTE:

The word not is always an adverb. It is never part of a helping verb, even when it is joined to a verb as thecontraction –n’t.

Not and Never

• Not and never are NOT and NEVER will be part of a verb phrase.

He should not have borrowed his book.

He shouldn’t have borrowedhis book.

Let’s Practice

• Online Quiz