Language Development

Place Your Order

Subjects and Word Order

Sentences usually follow this pattern: subject illustration of a short arrow verb. In a sentence, a subject tells about someone or something. The subject usually comes first in a sentence. A subject is a noun or noun phrase.

To find the subject in a sentence, ask yourself: Whom or what is the sentence about?

photograph of a family at a restaurant table, waiter taking their order

This family likes to eat at this restaurant. The girl is placing her order. The server is taking the order. The woman and boy are looking at the menu.

Build Sentences

Look at the pictures below. Add a subject with a noun to make a complete sentence.

    Example

  • 1. The woman is reading the menu.

  • 1. photograph of a woman reading a restaurant menu

    ______ is reading the menu.

  • 2. photograph of a young woman placing an order in a restaurant

    ______ is placing an order.

  • 3. photograph of a male waiter writing down a food order

    ______ is taking an order.

  • 4. photograph of a teenage boy seated at a restaurant table

    ______ is thinking about what to eat.

Write about People at a Restaurant illustration of pen icon

5. Work with a partner. Pretend you are both at a restaurant. Take turns writing sentences about what the people at the restaurant are doing. Remember to use this order: subject illustration of a short arrow verb.

    Example

  • 5. The man is talking to the server.