Prepositions and Verbs
Explain the difference between linking and action verbs.
What is:
Linking verbs describe the subject
Action verbs show action occuring
The kinds of words adjectives and adverbs describe
What are nouns and pronouns (adj) and adjectives, adverbs, and verbs (adv)?
Whether the bolded pronoun is intensive or reflexive:
The reveal that Tracy, herself, committed the crime shocked the audience!
What is intensive?
List the seven coordinating conjunctions
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
List the three articles
What are a, an, and the?
What is the preposition in this sentence:
Henry, go get Polly before dinner.
What is before?
Whether the bolded word is an adjective or adverb (you can shorten it):
A beautiful painting hung on the wall.
What is an adjective?
Write out the pronouns only and indicate if they are personal or possessive:
I asked you a question and your answer made no sense.
What is:
I and you (personal)
Your (possessive)
Write out the coordinating conjunction in this sentence:
You can go on three rides or play games.
What is or?
Whether the bolded word is a proper adjective or proper noun (do not shorten both words):
The Inuit folk song was actually used in a movie's soundtrack.
What is a proper adjective?
Write out the sentence and underline the preposition:
The salad fell onto the floor.
What is:
The salad fell onto the floor.
List the adverbs in this sentence:
Yesterday we celebrated your uncle's birthday here.
What are yesterday and here?
Write out the sentence, underline the nouns, and indicate if they are singular or plural:
The choir had to leave their bus behind when the wheels broke and all of the bags fell out of the back.
What are:
The choir (S) had to leave their bus (S) behind when the wheels (P) broke and all of the bags (P) fell out of the back (S).
Write out the correlative conjunction(s) of this sentence:
Students can choose either a fruit cup or chips but not both.
What is: either / or ?
Write the sentence and underline the collective noun:
A pirate crew stormed the ship and took all of the treasure.
What is:
A pirate crew stormed the ship and took all of the treasure.
Underline the action verbs and indicate if they are transitive or intransitive:
The photographer took pictures and cut the cake while smiling widely.
What is:
The photographer took (t) pictures and cut (t) the cake while smiling (i) widely.
Write out the sentence and underline the adjective (4):
A loose tooth can be really annoying for young children.
What is:
A loose tooth can be really annoying for young children.
Indicate whether the pronoun is interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite, or relative (do not shorten):
Regina handed Paul, who'd shown up late, the last pair of shoes.
What is relative?
Write out the sentence and underline the subordinating conjunction:
The alarm clock has been going off since Tracy forgot to turn it off.
What is:
The alarm clock has been going off since Tracy forgot to turn it off.
Write out the sentence and label the type of each of the bolded pronouns:
It's a shame that some of your friends didn't want that honor themselves.
What is:
It's (personal) a shame that some (indefinite) of your (possessive) friends didn't want that (demonstrative) honor themselves (reflexive).
Write out the sentence, underline the prepositional phrase, and label the object:
Regina ordered five loaves of bread in addition to her birthday cake.
What is:
Regina ordered five loaves of bread in addition to her birthday cake.
Write out the sentence, underline the adjectives and adverbs, and label which is which:
The motorcycle quickly drove out of the new store.
What is:
The (adj) motorcycle quickly (adv) drove out of the (adj) new (adj) store.
Label if the bolded nouns are singular vs plural, concrete vs abstract, and proper or common:
The boys from the cabins watched Holes and other movies and learned about friendship.
What is:
Boys: p – c – c
Cabins: p - c -c
Holes: s - c - p
movies: p - c - c
friendship: s - a - c
Write the sentence, underline the conjunction, and write out the full name of its type:
Selina wanted both the director and the producer at the meeting.
What is:
Selina wanted both the director and the producer at the meeting. Correlative?
Write your own sentence featuring a verb phrase while properly labeling the helping verb and the main verb.
What is [wow you are so creative]?