Sentence Complements
A linking verb joins the subject to a subject complement that completes it.
Preview how it deepens, Grades 4 through 8.
Build one yourself.
Pick one chip at each station and snap them together. The Mayor inspects the finished sentence, a quick taste of how the parts combine.
1 · Nelson's office · the subject
2 · Lucy's linking verb
3 · the complement (describes or renames)
A change order drops: make it plural, give it an adverb, swap in a pronoun. Re-tool the sentence and roll it back onto the line.
Play Sentence Surgeon →Slang builds a sentence that follows every rule of grammar and still means nonsense. Catch which rule he really broke, and let the Mayor judge.
Play Garbage Sentences →After a linking verb, use a describing word, not an adverb.
Badly is an adverb, so it describes the verb. That would mean the soup is bad at tasting.
The linking verb tastes links back to the soup, so it needs a describing word: bad, the complement, boxed inside the predicate.
The characters host. The sentence is the star.
The same concept, deeper every grade.
Sentence Complements runs the length of the Factory, Grades 4 through 8. The lesson meets the standard at each grade, across all four frameworks.