Lesson 7: Action-Words • Building Sentences
First Book in Language • Joining Nouns with Verbs to Tell Thoughts
Living Grammar
The baby sleeps.
Name-word: The baby • Action-word: sleeps
A hen lays eggs.
Name-words: A hen, eggs • Action-word: lays
Question 1: What word tells who or what?
(The baby, A hen, eggs).
Question 2: What word tells what they do?
(sleeps, lays).
Question 3: When a name-word joins an action-word, what do they do together?
They tell something complete!
Part 1.2
Memorize: “A word that asserts something, or that tells what any-thing does, is an action-word.”
Suggested Name-Words Bank (Click to paste into active blank):
The man
The girl
The boy
The baby
The boys
The cat
The dog
The men
Children
The bird
Dogs
A horse
Part 2.2
Section II — 40-Word List • Build Sentences to Tell Something:
Click any word to hear or paste
a hen
eggs
mice
picks
dogs
catch
cats
bird
feet
books
grow
read
a cat
oranges
sings
caught
ate
buy
the fire
flies
eat
has
burns
an ox
have
run
reads
a book
walk
water
drinks
walks
runs
lays
laid
a mouse
boys
a boy
the girl
the man
1.
A hen lays eggs.
(Textbook Model)
Part 2.3
Section III • Socratic Narration: Ask a question about each name-word, and answer using complete living sentences!
Superb! You have built living sentences from name-words and action-words!