Parts of Speech
What part of speech makes a sentence pattern 2?
What is a sentence that makes a command called?
Imperative Sentence -Imp
What does serious mean?
important or significant
What do I need to the verb in a pattern 2 sentence?
Make the verb transitive (V-t)
What are the 3 simple verb tenses?
What is a helping verb, give an example.
It is a part of speech that helps a verb or adds to it.
She was traveling.
He did well on his test.
What is the definition of defend?
protect, guard, or keep safe
What is the present, past, and future tense form of choose?
Choose(s), chose/chosen, and will choose/shall choose.
Name the 3 helping verbs that make up the "Perfect Tenses".
has, had, have
Which verb determines the tense of a verb phrase?
Helping verb
Example - "Has walked" = Perfect Present
Which pattern sentence is considered Intransitive?
Which pattern sentence is considered Transitive?
Pattern 1 = Intransitive
Pattern 2 = Transitive
What is an antonym for defend?
Invade or attack
What makes a verb regular versus irregular?
When the past tense of the verb just adds -ed then it is regular. If you must change the spelling of the word to make it past tense, it is considered irregular.
Walk to Walked - Regular
Eat to Ate - Irregular
What pattern sentence is this? P1 or P2? Why?
He stayed up watching the football game.
Pattern 2 because it has a direct object "game'.
List the 8 parts of speech we have learned so far.
Verb, Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection.
An imperative sentence
What is an interjection?
It's a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence used to show emotion in a sentence.
What do verb do you always look at when determining its tense?
Helping verb unless it is a main verb by itself
was eating
Past Progressive
List the the present tense helping verbs.
List the past tense helping verbs.
List the future helping verbs.
Present: am, is, are, has, have, do, does
Past: was, were, had, did, been
Future: will, shall
When is a sentence considered inverted? Give an example.
When something from the predicate comes before the subject noun, like a prepositional phrase or helping verb.
Ex: After school, she always takes a nap.
What is the difference between subjective or objective nouns?
Subjective nouns are the nouns in the sentence.
Ex: "I went to school." - "I" is the SN thus being subjective
Objective nouns are either DO or OP in the sentence. Ex: "She loves to eat waffles for breakfast." - waffles is the DO thus being objective and breakfast is the OP thus being objective also
Which is correct? Why?
She and I went to the store.
or
Her and me went to the store.
She and I
She and I are both Subjective Pronouns while Her and me are both Objective Pronouns and in this case we need a subject.
Classify the word "laughed" in 1st ,2nd ,3rd ,and 4th principle part.