Nouns
What is the definition of a noun?
What is a person, place, thing or idea?
What is the definition of a pronoun?
What takes the place of a noun in a sentence to make it less repetitive and less awkward?
What is the definition of a verb?
What is a word that shows action or state of being?
What is the definition of an adjective?
What is a word that describes a noun or pronoun?
Find the error in the sentence:
She spoke clear to the audience during her presentation.
Clear should be clearly.
She spoke clearly to the audience during her presentation.
What are the two noun categories?
What are common nouns and proper nouns?
What are the three categories of pronouns?
What are personal pronouns, interrogative pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns?
What are the three verb categories?
What are action verbs, helping verbs, and linking verbs?
What are some questions adjectives might answer?
What kind? Which one? How many? How much? Or other questions
Find the error in the sentence:
Me and Sarah decided to join the debate team.
Me and Sarah should be Sarah and I.
Sarah and I decided to join the debate team.
A proper noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. (Ex: Disneyland)
A common noun is a general person, place, thing, or idea. (Ex: Amusement Park)
What are the definitions for each of the pronoun categories? What are examples of each category?
A personal pronoun is used for a specific object or person. (Ex: We)
An interrogative pronoun is used to ask questions about a person or object that we do not know about. (Ex: Whom)
A demonstrative pronoun is used to show or identify one or a number of pronouns that may be far or near in distance or time. (Ex: These)
What are the definitions of the verb categories? What are examples of each verb category?
An action verb is a word that shows action. (Ex: Running)
A helping verb is a word that helps another verb. (Ex: Is)
A linking verb describes a condition. (Ex: Seems)
What are examples for the following adjective categories?
- Age
- Material
-Shape
- Size
Any appropriate examples
Find the error in the sentence:
Neither of the candidates have submitted their final report.
Have should be has.
Neither of the candidates has submitted their final report.
Find all of the nouns in the sentence:
Sally went to the large and busy mall to buy her mom a new, colorful blouse.
Nouns: Sally, mall, mom, blouse
Find all of the pronouns in the sentence:
Sally went to the large and busy mall to buy her mom a new, colorful blouse.
Pronouns: Her
Find all of the verbs in the sentence:
Sally went to the large and busy mall to buy her mom a new, colorful blouse.
Verbs: Went, buy
Find all of the adjectives in the sentence:
Sally went to the large and busy mall to buy her mom a new, colorful blouse.
Adjectives: Large, busy, new, colorful
Find the errors (2) in the sentence:
Between you and I, this is the most unique idea on the team.
I should be me. Most unique should be unique.
Between you and me, this is a unique idea on the team.
Which of the following words are not nouns?
Hypothesis, criteria, linger, perseverance reluctant, alumni
Linger is a verb. Reluctant is an adjective.
Which of the following are not considered pronouns?
Whose, these, me, you, her, they, I, whom, watch, blue
Watch is a noun. Blue is an adjective.
Which of the following are not considered verbs?
Exacerbate, run, jump, broken, clock, mitigate, fluctuate
Broken is an adjective. Clock is a noun.
Which of the following words are not adjectives?
Meticulous, running, kitchen, unique, I, red, colorful
Kitchen is a noun. Running is a noun. I is a pronoun.
Find the errors (3) in the sentence:
Whomever wrote this essay used less arguments than required and concluded it abrupt.
Whomever should be whoever. Less should be fewer. Abrupt should be abruptly.
Whoever wrote this essay used fewer arguments than required and concluded it abruptly.