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name__________________________ grade_______ THE LITERARY CAVALCADE LANGUAGE ARTS SURVIVAL GUIDE part 1 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO WRITE THE PERFECT SENTENCE. PLUS, A GUIDE TO IRREGULAR VERBS Clip Save Here are your first eight pages of the Language Arts survival guide. In each subsequent issue you will receive two more pages. By the end of the year you will have a complete, easy-to-use guide to Language Arts skills. THE LITERARY CAVALCADE SURVIVAL GUIDE Section I—The Sentence MAKE THIS YEAR’S LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK EASIER. THIS SURVIVAL GUIDE WILL EQUIP YOU WITH THE BASICS OF WRITING AND LANGUAGE ARTS. FOLLOW THE RULES IN THIS SURVIVAL GUIDE AND WATCH YOUR GRADES SOAR. The first element of good writing you’ll need to master is the sentence. Here are the key rules to making sure your sentences are sound. THE SUBJECT AND PREDICATE Your sentence should begin with the person or thing to which the action is happening or the action describes.  My sister stayed up all night working on her paper. Her car was gun-metal silver and had a big, black stripe going across the hood. The sentence should then have a verb. The verb describes what is being said about the subject. My dog found the only pair of socks I had left. The sentence should end with an object. The object receives the action of the subject and verb. The troll demanded a toll. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT A verb must agree with the subject in number (singular or plural) and in person (first, second, or third). Most verbs use the same form for all but the third-person singular. II OCTOBER 2003 Literary Cavalcade  While I run, you run, we run and they run, he runs. The most common exception to this rule is the verb to be. That verb changes throughout the various conjugations: I am We are You are You are He, she, it is They are Terminology The SUBJECT is the part of the sentence affected by the action or behavior that the sentence describ