Student Instructions
1. Edit the text to make it a complete and clean sentence.
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Move the lazy cat to check your answer.
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If you missed mistakes on slide one, circle the rule(s) in the blue box that you should remember next time.
Your Goal: Learn the role of a helper verb in a sentence and when sentences have incomplete verbs!
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
See junewriters.com/teachers for other resources to help you teach helper verbs and other grammar, punctuation, and editing conventions. Writing conventions practiced in this assignment: • All sentences must have a subject and predicate, a capitalized first word, and ending punctuation • The verb is part of the predicate of the sentence • The verb is the action the subject of the sentence does in the sentence • A helper verb is a verb that is used with another verb to express the tense, mood, or voice of the main verb