November 12

List 14
Crossing the Bar

Predicate Nominative

THINGS TO PONDER

VERSE FOR THE DAY

SEED WORDS
Supersede is the only verb in English that ends in sede. Exceed, proceed, and succeed are the only verbs that end in ceed. All the other endings that have a seed sound are spelled cede.

LIST 14: SEED and other commonly misspelled words

1. accede 2. annually 3. antecede 4. boundary 5. concede 6. discipline 7. evidently 8. exceed 9. finally 10. generally

Vocabulary 14 Subject-Verb Agreement

complaisant deficiency execute posterity

disfigure

procure

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excavate
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unrelenting

Vocabulary 14 Subject-Verb Agreement

complaisant willing to please
disfigure ruin the appearance of

deficiency - inadequacy entrench establish, dig in, do

excavate excavate or hollow out

complaisant willing to please, Subject-Verb Agreement obliging, agreeable

Willing and complaisant, the bulldog accepted to be tamed by a new owner.

deficiency inadequacy, Subject-Verb Agreement shortcoming

Students should read more books because of deficiency of knowledge.

Subject-Verb Agreement disfigure ruin the appearance

The husband will disfigure the door when they realized that the supermaket was already closed.

entrench establish, dig in, fortify, occupy a secure area

The family will be entrenched as they moved to a house with Windows 8.

entrench establish, dig in, fortify, occupy a secure area

Some islands are entrenching from their original spot on the planet.

Subject-Verb or hollow excavate scoopAgreement out

Nobody should excavate a hole on playgrounds.

Vocabulary 14 Subject-Verb Agreement

complaisant willing to please
disfigure ruin the appearance of

deficiency - inadequacy entrench establish, dig in, do

excavate excavate or hollow out

CROSSING THE BAR by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

THE RESEARCH PAPER

Let the journey begin..

The research paper is a formal composition written to inform or persuade readers regarding a selected topic. A successful research paper is not only well organized and well written, but is also properly documented. The careful writer documents, or records, the source of any information that he gathers in his research. When this information is unique to a particular source, that source is cited, or identified, within the research paper.

RESEARCH PAPER

What is a research paper?

A research paper is a carefully planned essay that shares information or proves a point.

RESEARCH PAPER (Plan)

STEP 1. Select and limit the subject.
a. Select the subject that interests you. b. Choose a subject that merits attention. (1) Does it pose any important questions that you might answer? (2) Will it be interesting and valuable to your audience? c. Select a subject that has sufficient resource material available. d. Limit your subject to one that can be adequately treated within the assigned number of pages.

Finding a Topic
Write about what you know.

Whenever possible, seek out a research topic that interests you and that you care about. Aim to build on knowledge that you already have. If the topic is assigned, try to develop an angle that will interest you, then run the idea by your instructor.

 Why should you write about what you

know?
Starting

with your own views and opinions will motivate you. about a topic familiar to you will help you to ask the right questions.

Writing

If

you care about the topic, you will care about your paper.

Too Broad:
---- What is Attention Deficit Disorder?

More Focused: ---- Is diet an effective treatment for Attention Deficit Disorder?

Assignment
Choose your topic Bond paper

Predicate nominative is a noun (or pronoun) that follows a linking verb and renames the subject.

Using Nouns as Predicate Nominatives

predicate nominative
A is a noun (or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames or EXAMPLE: explains the Hamburger is a delicious food. subject.
This noun (or pronoun) means the same thing or person as the subject.

2. In a sentence containing a predicate nominative, you can always replace the verb with the word equals.

Mr. Johnson is my teacher.

2. In a sentence containing a predicate nominative, you can always replace the verb with the word equals.

Isaiah was a great prophet. Revelation is the last book in the Bible.

3. Predicate nominatives can never be in prepositional phrases.

Revelation is the last book in the Bible.

4. Predicate nominatives may be compound.

The men in the furnace were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

4. Predicate nominatives may be compound.

5. Predicate Nominatives are sometimes called subject complements. Subject complements always follow linking verbs. Have you memorized the following list of linking verbs? If not, you need to memorize them now.

LINKING VERBS
LINKING/HELPING am is taste feel LINKING/ACTION stay grow

are
was were be being

smell remain
sound look appear become

been

seem

Using Nouns as Predicate Nominatives

Answer Exercise A, B and C on pp122-123.