RMSE-LA 5 nouns in the predicate, pronouns and pronoun case

Nouns in the predicate

Students are introduced to nouns in the predicate in lesson forty-seven.
Students apply the test to the last word in the sentence: does the word name a person, place or thing? If it does, the word is a noun.

In lesson forty-eight students analyse sentences that have no noun in the predicate or end with a noun.

Pronouns

Lesson-fifty introduces pronouns. Pronouns are described as ‘more general words that can replace nouns’. Students replace nouns with appropriate pronouns.

In lesson sixty-one students first identify whether each sentence ends with a noun or a pronoun. Then they make each sentence that ends with a pronoun more specific by referring to a picture and rewriting the sentence, so it ends with a noun. Students write sentences that end with an adjective and a noun. Students are introduced in lesson seventy-seven to the test: that a pronoun can replace a noun and its adjectives. This test helps students determine whether a word is an adjective or not.

Pronoun case

In lesson ninety-five students test pronouns in sentences that name more than one person in the subject or in the predicate.

Students learn to construct these sentences by constructing a parallel sentence that eliminates reference to one of the persons in the original sentence. The rule is based on the parallelism that if the pronoun is wrong when only one person is named, the pronoun is wrong when more than one person is named.

Exercise

Turn to page 38 in RMSE-LA 5 Teacher’s Guide. Read and review teaching notes and lessons.