Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Writing: Framing Your Thoughts - Receivers

So far, we've talked about the subject (who/what the sentence is about - person, place, thing), the predicate (the action done by/to/for the subject - a verb), and the "where" predicate expander (where the action is taking place).

Now, we are creating sentences using receivers. A receiver is something that is taking the action from the subject. It is represented with this symbol:


In this example sentence, the subject, predicate, receiver, and predicate expander are all labeled correctly:

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