Noun Town
Nouns are divided into two main categories: specific names like "Jamaica" (proper nouns) and general words like "city" known as these.
What are common nouns?
Verbs denote an action performed by the noun or this other key element in a sentence.
What is the subject?
Useful words used to link one part of a sentence to another and show position are called these.
What are prepositions?
Instead of repeating a noun, you use this part of speech to replace it in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
These words are used to describe nouns or the subject in a sentence to provide more information about them.
What are adjectives?
These join two or more different parts of a sentence, including phrases, clauses, and words.
What are conjunctions?
Words like mine, yours, and theirs show ownership and belong to this pronoun category.
What are possessive pronouns?
Identify the verb in this sentence: "The leopard leaps across the river."
What is leaps?
In "He ran extremely fast," the word "extremely" is an adverb because it provides more information about this other adverb. What word is it?
What is fast?
In "The students completed their assignment," the verb denotes an action performed by this group of people.
Who are the students?
In "The book is on the desk," the word "on" acts as a preposition because it shows this about the object.
What is position/location?