Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Seventeen, Lesson Five: Unit Review

  1. address
  2. drought
  3. drop
  4. drill
  5. dream
  6. drain
  7. children
  8. drink
  9. sonic
  10. boom
  1. center
  2. figure
  3. agree
  4. moment
  5. script
  6. travel
  7. settlement
  8. tourist
  9. goggle
  10. freeway
Subjects and Predicates

Every sentence has a subject and a predicate. In the following sentences the subject is underlined and the predicate is shown in bold. 


  Jill flew a kite.

  Jack fell down the hill.

  The mouse ran down the hall.
All sentences have both a subject and a predicate. The subject tells who or what does something in the sentence. The predicate tells what the subject does or is. Remember that the predicate always contains a verb.

Suffixes: -ful, -ous, -or, -er

Consider the following examples: 


  WORD + SUFFIX:		MEANING:
  sail  +  or  = sailor   	one who sails
  beauty + ful = beautiful	full of beauty
  fame + ous = famous		full of fame
  poison + ous = poisonous	having the qualities of poison
  toast + er = toaster		something that toasts
Remember that you can often figure out the meaning of a word attached to a suffix you haven't seen before if you know the meaning of the base word and the meaning of the suffix which is attached to it.

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