Lesson 6 - Subject/Verb Agreement - Irregular Verbs

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Assessed Skills from Tennessee Blueprint - 6th Grade

Identify sentences with correct subject-verb agreement (person/number) within context.

Identify the correct use of the following within context:

·1 nouns (i.e., common/proper, singular/plural, possessives);

·2 pronouns (i.e., agreement, subject, object);

·3 verbs (i.e., action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement);

·1 adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative forms);

·2 adverbs (i.e., comparative forms).

Developing Skills from Tennessee Blueprint - 6th Grade

Use verbs appropriately (e.g., agree with the subject in person and number, action verbs that take objects, linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, verb tenses, and regular and irregular verb forms).

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Irregular Verb Charts

In Lesson 6 you will learn the correct uses of the verbs DO and HAVE.

Do Verbs

Rules

Use does or doesn't with the pronouns he, she, and it, or whenever you mean only one person or thing.
Use do or don't with the pronouns I, you, they and we, or whenever you mean more than one person or thing.

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does doesn't

Singular Nouns or Pronouns	Verbs	Sentences
he	does/doesn't	He does his chores by the banks of the river.
field	does/doesn't	The big field in front of the Pioneer Hotel does nothing for the people of Ember.
it	does/doesn't	It does her good to wash her hair in the river.

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do don't

Plural Nouns or Pronouns	Verbs	Sentences
people	do/don't	The people do all the work in the evening after completing their day jobs.
we	do/don't	We do odd jobs for the people of Sparks.
I	do/don't	I do something about each problem.

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Have Verbs

Rules

Use has or hasn't with the pronouns he, she, and it, or whenever you mean only one person or thing.
Use have or haven't with the pronouns I, you, they and we, or whenever you mean more than one person or thing.

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has hasn't

Singular Nouns or Pronouns	Verbs	Sentences
he	has/hasn't	He has a brother named Caspar
Tick	has/hasn't	Tick has on clean shirts and pants, when everyone else has become dirty from their labors.
it	has/hasn't	It has fun features.

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have haven't

Plural Nouns or Pronouns	Verbs	Sentences
projects	have/haven't	After weeks of work no projects have end results.
we	have/haven't	We have no instructions for building a platform over the river.
you	have/haven't	You have to complete one project before beginning the next.
I	have/haven't	I have many projects for the people of Ember to do.

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Practice

Part A - Write do or does to complete each sentence.

Clary ___________________ the cooking for Dr. Hester.
Lina and Doon ___________________ a workout each day with so many chores.
He ___________________ them with the help of his neighbors.
He always says, "I'll ___________________ it tomorrow."

Part B - Write has or have to complete each sentence.

There ___________________ to be a way for everyone to eat.
All the people ___________________ to be rescued.
Dr. Hester ___________________ a messy kitchen.
It ___________________ piles of books, herbs, and cooking utensils all over the place.

Part C - There are mistakes in using the verbs is/are, do/does, and has/have in the paragraph below. Use proofreading marks to delete each incorrect word and write the correct word above it.

Example: She the dishes after dinner.

Lina have a vision of a sparkling city in her mind. Do a city like the one in her imagination really exist? Lina remembers The Disaster and makes changes in a few of her thoughts. Is the windows broken? Has some of the high towers toppled? An idea that strikes her are this. She have to go to the city to determine if the Emberites can rebuild it. Lina are optimistic. There have to be a wonderful place in this new world for her people.

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Teaching Activity

Stand Up/Sit Down Game

Materials needed: Flashcards

Set the students up in two teams and get the teams to line up in rows. The teacher is to walk up the middle of the two teams and show the flashcards to each member in turn. The student that is shown the card should then say the correct structure. If the student is successful then s/he is able to stay standing. If the student is incorrect s/he should sit down on the floor, and remain sitting until the end of the exercise. When the teacher has shown the flashcards to all of the students and they have all had the chance to take part in the activity the teacher then allocates one point for each student standing.

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Answer Key

Part A

does
do
does
do

Part B

has
have
has
has

Part C

Lina has a vision of a sparkling city in her mind. Does a city like the one in her imagination really exist? Lina remembers The Disaster and makes changes in a few of her thoughts. Are the windows broken? Have some of the high towers toppled? An idea that strikes her is this. She has to go to the city to determine if the Emberites can rebuild it. Lina is optimistic. There has to be a wonderful place in this new world for her people.