This lesson covers three key grammatical concepts: (1) Adjectival prepositional phrases function as adjectives to describe nouns by answering 'which?' questions, such as 'the book on the shelf' or 'the man with a black umbrella'; (2) Noun complements complete sentence meaning and come in two types—subject complements (predicate nominatives) that rename the subject after linking verbs like 'is' or 'became', and object complements that rename the direct object after action verbs like 'elected' or 'named'; (3) Adjective complements add descriptive clarity, with subject complements (predicate adjectives) describing the subject after linking verbs, and object complements describing the direct object after action verbs. The lesson includes practical exercises for identifying, expanding, and creating sentences using these grammatical structures.
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ENGLISH 6 Term 1 Week 6 - Using Adjectives & Complements in Sentences
Added:Hi and welcome to all our English lovers out there. Welcome to your new episode of English 6 for term one, week six. We are still at speaking [music] and writing, okay? Productive skills, but for this episode, we're going to focus on using adjectives and compliments in sentences. [music] Okay, so for session one, let's have our pre-lessson activity. So look at these two sentences. [music] The wooden box sits on the table. Number two, the box of wood sits [music] on the table. Both words describe the box. Wooden is a single adjective. Of wood is a prepositional phrase acting exactly like an adjective. So [music] today we will use these phrases to add specific details to [music] our sentences.
So now let's have prepositional phrase as [music] an adjectival phrase. A prepos a prepositional phrase starts with a preposition in, on, under, with, behind, of from [music] and ends with a noun or pronoun. when it is placed directly after a noun to describe that noun, [music] its function or it functions as an adjective of phrase. So let's have some examples now. The book on the shelf belongs to the library. So which book? The one on the shelf. Next, a man with a black umbrella walked past.
Which man? The one with black >> [music] >> umbrella.
Okay. So, let's have other examples.
[music] Okay. The dog under the table is sleeping quietly. So, which dog? The one under the table. We visited the house beside the river. So, which [music] house? The one beside the river. So, it tells us now the flowers in the garden bloom beautifully every morning. So, which [music] flowers? So, Bulaklak na sa garden number four. The boy with curly hair won the contest. So which boy? The [music] one with curly hair. So it answers the question which as well. So number five, the shoes by the door belong to my brother. Which shoes? The shoes by the door. So remember a prepositional phrase describes the noun that comes [music] before it. A prepos a prepositional phrase. Okay. So add more information about the noun. They help make our sentences clearer and more interesting.
Okay. So let's have an assessment.
For this assessment, you need to underline the adjective prepositional phrase in each sentence and circle the noun it is describing. So you just need to [music] identify the adjectable prepositional phrase sentence [music] and then you're going to circle the noun. describe. Okay. So, for example, oh, let's go back again.
So, the house at the end of the street is allegedly [music] haunted. Now, the adjective prepositional phrase in that sentence is at the end of the street. [music] So, which house? So, at the end of the street. So, na is the house. [music] Okay. For number two, I bought a cup of hot chocolate to warm up. Okay. So I'm at adjectival phrase is okay of that uh of hot chocolate.
Okay. So you cup no. And then for number three the store with the neon sign is open 24 hours. So I'm adjectable prepos prepositional phrase [music] is with neon sign. So which store? So you store noun. So [music] um you adjectable prepositional phrase in that sentence is with the neon signs. [music] Okay. So you can check if you got the correct answer. So you circle John is your house, cop, store, passengers and footprints. So you um prepositional phrase is at the end of the street of hot chocolate with the neon sign on the delayed flight under the window.
Okay. So, for letter B, we're going to expand the simple sentences below by adding an adject an adjectable prepositional phrase to describe [music] okay the underlined noun. Okay. So, for example, the cat slept. [music] So, to expand, the cat on the porch slept.
Okay. So, which cat? Okay. On the porch.
The cat on the porch. Okay. So, the teacher explained the rules clearly.
[music] I cannot find the keys. The dog barked all night long. The p the painting sold for thousands of dollars. We sat down to eat the [music] meal. Now, how to expand it?
So, miging. The teacher in the classroom explained the rules clearly. I cannot find the [music] keys on the table. The dog behind the gate barked all night long. Okay. The painting on the wall sold for thousands of dollars. We sat down to eat the meal on the dining table. So [music] sample of course you're going to um have your own sentences. [music] So it sample need exact answers. So your answers may vary depending on what kind of um adjective or prepositional phrase you're going to use or to attach no to expand our sentences. So sample lang. I know you can do so much better than this uh sample answers. [music] Okay. So for a race forward, you need now to combine the two short sentences into [music] one clear coherent coherent sentence by turning the second sentence [music] into an adjective prepositional phrase. For example, I saw a bird. It was in the tree. So miging [music] I saw a bird in the tree. Yeah. So we have here uh the sentences. The woman won an award. She is from our town. [music] Please hand me that jacket. It is on the coat rack.
Number three. The milk has gone sour.
[music] It is inside the refrigerator.
The road was closed due to flooding. It is the road near the river. The girl is my cousin. She is the one with the curly hair. Okay. So to expand it.
Okay. This is what our sentences would look like. No. The woman from our town won an award. Please hand me the jacket on the coat rack. The milk inside the refrigerator has gone [music] sour. The road near the river was closed due to flooding. Then the girl with the curly hair is my cousin. All right. For session two. Okay. For your pre-lessson activity, complete each sentence with a suitable prepositional phrase that functions as an adjective. [music] So, adjectival prepositional phrase. So, to help you out, we have here some sample.
Okay. Answer. So, the woman with the red bag is my aunt. The books on the table belong to the principal. The students from grade six performed well in the program. The puppy under the chair barked all night. The painting on the wall attracted many visitors.
Okay, so now Okay, so moving on to our next topic. Let's read the two sentences below. Notice how the underlined words complete the meaning of the sentence.
Mr. Davis is a teacher. So without teacher, Mr. Davis is okay, it doesn't make sense, right? Now the class elected Sarah president. So without the president, the action feels incomplete.
So the class elected Sarah. Okay. In what specific position? So it felt [music] incomplete. Okay. So now we're going to discuss the noun compliment. A noun complement is a noun or noun phrase that follows a verb and gives essential information about the subject or the object. Now noun complements come in two primary forms. [music] We have the subject complement or the predicate nominative.
It follows a linking verb like is, was, became, seen and renames or identifies the subject. Okay. While object complement follows a direct object and [music] renames or states what the direct object has become. Okay. So for the subject complement example, my sister became a doctor. So the doctor that she is referring to is her sister.
For object complement, we named our puppy bar. Barnaby. Okay. So the puppy and Barnaby is [music] one. Okay. So no explain. So when we talk about subject compliment. Okay.
Okay.
Paka. So B verbs is, [music] am, are, was, were, become, seem or look. Okay. So, so it is the subject plus the linking verb plus the subject complement.
[music] Okay. So, uh we have a lot of examples on the [music] next slide. So, just a quick example. For example, Maria is a teacher. So subject is Maria. Linking verb is okay. The subject complement is teacher.
Okay. So teacher [music] ano sit Maria.
So the flower is beautiful or subject is flower. Linking verb is subject complement beautiful. So [music] beautiful flower. Okay.
Subject complimental [music] subject. So subject or while object complement.
Okay. Object complement.
So formula for that subject plus verb plus object plus object complement.
Okay. Okay. So for example the class elected Anna president. So subject class [music] okay verb is elected and object is Anna object complement is [music] president. So sa president. Okay. So let's have some more examples [music] for subject compliment. Mr. Cruz is the principal. The winner of the contest was Andrea. Her favorite hobby is painting.
Their neighbor was a firefighter. Our [music] class advisor is Mrs. Santos. So tip, if you can replace the noun compliment with a pronoun, he, she, it, they, then it is a noun compliment.
Okay. So another thing for subject compliment.
This is an added information. [music] Okay. About the doer of the action.
Okay.
kilos.
So, let's go to object compliment. The team elected Carla president. They called the baby Joshua. [music] No. So, baby is S Joshua. The teacher appointed Miguel leader. So, you leader is Miguel.
The judge declared Ramon the champion.
So, who is the champion? It's Rammon.
His friends nicknamed him Flash. So remember a noun complement adds important information that completes the meaning of the verb. Okay. So object complement ID [music] information um no kilos. [music] So noun complements complete the meaning and make our sentences clear and [music] meaningful.
So formula. Okay. So for subject complement it is subject plus the linking verb. K plus the subject complement. For object complement we have K the subject plus the verb plus the object plus the object complement. So [music] about the difference no between the subject complement and the object complement. So for your assessment, you're going to identify the noun compl noun complement in each sentence and state whether it is a subject complement or object complement.
Okay. So for that one, a brillant scientist is a subject complement.
[music] Okay. B linking verbat.
So that is a subject complement. Wala para direct. So it's an object complement. All right. So chair person it's object complement. An author it's subject complement. The winner's object complement. Hockey subject complement.
Okay. So for letter B, complete the sentences by adding an appropriate noun complement that makes the sentence clear and coherent. Okay. So let's try.
Okay. The school board voted Maya president before he retired. Mr. Harrison was a dedicated teacher. Okay.
Again, sample answers. So, [music] Mr. Harrison was a dedicated policeman, a dedicated judge or lawyer.
So, they consider honesty as the best policy. The children paint in the cardboard a box or the cardboard box a castle. The tall building in the center of town is a museum. Okay. So, another activity, compose a complete coherent sentence using the provided noun as a compliment. [music] So, the instruction instructions in parenthesis will tell you how to use it. Yeah. So, champion, captain, artist, leader, and manager.
So, you're going to use that as a subject complement or as an object compliment. So, again, your answers may [music] vary. So I possible or sample answers only it will just serve as guideer [music] sort of a guide on how you're going to create your own sentences. [music] So sample my brother became the champion of the chess tournament. The team elected Carla captain. My aunt is a talented artist. The class chose Miguel Leer. My father is the manager of the company.
Okay. For session three.
Okay. [music] So again, you're going to have your pre-lessson activity. You're going to underline the noun compliment in each sentence and then you're going to write whether it is a subject complement or object complement.
Okay. Okay. So the noun for number one is a pilot. It's a subject complement.
Number two, secretary, object complement. [music] Three, a carpenter, subject complement. Four, snowball, object compliment. And number five, the winner, object compliment. Soap [music] may be b form of the verb or linking verb subject complement. While object complement.
Okay. Okay, so those were just simple tips.
>> [music] >> in the [music] long run.
[music] Okay. So information. So going back or for our pre- lesson activity. Now look at this common dialogue. Knockknock. Who is it?
It is I. Formal y. For informal it's me.
[music] And in or sorry in formal grammar pronouns that complement linking verbs take specific cases. [music] So today we will look at how pronouns act as compliments to ensure clarity [music] and formal correctness.
So we're going to uh discuss pronouns as complements. So a pronoun is a word used in place of [music] a noun to avoid repetition in a sentence. So common pronouns include I, you, [music] he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, [music] and them. So you have your common pronouns. So for example, Maria is absent because she is sick. Okay? So she replaces the noun Maria. [music] Okay? So Maria, she isang lang. Okay? So just like nouns, pronouns can serve as compliments. [music] Okay.
For subject complements, [music] it follows a linking verb to rename the subject then use pronoun. So I, he, she, we, and they [music] for object complements. When a pronoun rename renames a direct object, use an object [music] pronoun. Okay. Okay. So, subject complments subject pronoun.
Object complements object pronoun.
[music] So, difference what are the subject pronouns and what are the object pronouns? So, for subject pronouns it's I, he, she, we, uh they [music] for object it's me, him, her, us, them. This is rarer but occurs with specific verbs of making or [music] calling. So let's have the subject complements first. Example, the winner of the lottery was she. The person at the tour is he. The champions champions of the contest were they. The ones responsible for the project are we.
The next speaker will be she. The students who volunteered were [music] they. So for the object compliments example, the accident left him a broken man, but the recovery made him himself [music] again. More examples, the experience made her a stronger person.
The coach considered him the best player. The teacher called us the achievers of the year. The difficult journey left them exhausted travelers.
The performance made me a proud [music] supporter. Okay, so always know what subject pronouns are [music] and what are the object pronouns. So for this assessment, you're just going to select the grammatically correct pronoun in the parenthesis to [music] act as the complement.
And for your next activity, rewrite the sentences so that the underlined noun becomes a pronoun complement. So maintain formal grammar, sorry, grammar rules. Okay. So underline pronoun compliment. Okay. So for example, the bravest person in the room was he. The girls who volunteered to clean up were they. The person who designed the website is she. The ultimate decision makers are they.
[music] The next person in line to present is he. So formal informal the next person in line to present is him.
The ultimate decision makers are them.
So it is the formal one. So it grammatically correct [music] and formal um okay basically.
Okay. when we talk about the grammatically correct. [music] Okay.
Example, it's the informal one. Now for ways forward, compose five original sentences using pronouns as compliments based on the given prompts. No [music] parang a prompts. Okay, so we have that and we also have your sample okay possible some possible answers for session four. Okay, pre-lessson activity will always be about our last topic. Okay, fill in the blanks with the correct pronoun compliment.
Okay, so for our last session, we're going to discuss about adjective compliments.
[music] Adjective compliments add descriptive clarities to sentences an description.
Okay. For subject complement, it's predicate adjective. It modifies the subject by describing its [music] state, appearance or quality after a linking verb. The engine sounds loud. So loud describes the engine. For object complement, it modifies the direct object describing the [music] state. It was left in due to verbs action. So ano yaris after no uh action. So the news made my mother happy. Happy describes my mother. Okay, more examples. Okay, for uh subject complement. Okay, so for subject complement, we have the soup tastes [music] delicious. The flowers smell fragrant. The classroom looks clean. [music] The baby seems slippy.
The weather became cold. Okay, for object compliment, the game made the children excited. The loud noise left the baby frightened. [music] The teacher found the classroom messy.
The rain made the roads slippery. The joke kept everyone cheerful. So always remember the subject complements follow linking verbs such as is, are, was, where, seems, looks, sounds, [music] taste, tastes, becomes, etc., and describes the subject. While the object complements follow an action verbs and [music] describe the direct object as the result of the action. So after ano ngar after no action.
Okay. So for your assessment find the adjective complement in each sentence and underline it. [music] Then draw an arrow to to the noun it modifies. So we have five sentences for this one. Okay.
We have okay the adjective and arrow [music] describe. So wonderful describes the bread. Silent describes the audience.
Chilly describes the water. Vibrant is the old car and possible mathematical equation. [music] So again this one match a subject object with an appropriate verb and an adjective complement to create a clear coherent sentence. [music] So you have the subject and object, the storm, the coffee, the movie, the kitten, the bad news. And we have the verbs made, us, taste, turned, grew, and felt. So match subject object with an appropriate verb or appropriate verb and an adjective compliment.
Okay. So it will become something like this. The storm made us frightened. The [music] coffee tastes delicious. The movie made us excited. The kitten grew playful. The bad news turned everyone [music] sad. Okay, so for ways forward, you're going to fill in the blanks with an appropriate adjective compliment to ensure the sentence is clear and complete. Okay, so still we have our possible answers. [music] Keep the refrigerator door closed so the food stays fresh. The customer complained because his steak arrived cold. The soft music made a crying baby calm. [music] The brightly lit fireworks looked beautiful against dark sky. The continuous rain made the soil [music] muddy. And with that I would like to say thank you and it's a wrap. So I hope you learned okay a lot of things that we have discussed. No, when it comes to um adjectable phrase or subject compliment, object compliment and a whole lot more.
So, I hope you learned something.
You can always go back. Okay, you can always go back to the this episode.
[music] So you can always go back and review okay [music] this episode if we don't understand it in first reading. So let's read it again.
So so much for that. Thank you so much and I hope you learned and understand okay lesson for this week. So I I really hope in your um studies and of course all of you have a great teacher so supplemental uh video lang to help you out. So again thank you so much for being with me and I hope to see you again next week. Bye-bye.
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