💀 Nouns from the Crypt
A noun is a word that names one of these four things:
A person, place, thing, or idea.
A verb usually shows this:
An action or state of being.
An adjective describes this part of speech.
A noun.
Many — but NOT all — adverbs end with these two letters.
-ly
The transparent ghost violently rattled the rusty chains.
noun
Find the noun in this sentence:
This freaky deaky skeleton can dance!
skeleton
Find the verb:
The greyish, sickly-looking zombie groaned at what she hoped was her victim.
groaned.
Find the adjective:
The enormous spider quickly crawled away.
enormous
Find the adverb:
The spooky white ghost floated silently.
silently
The misunderstood monster sulkily stomped down the echoing hallway.
verb
The small yet powerful witch carried her heavy, grimy cauldron.
witch, cauldron
Find both verbs: The lanky vampire swiftly opened the creaky window and almost instantly disappeared.
opened, disappeared
Find both adjectives:
The frightened child entered the abandoned house.
frightened, abandoned
Find the adverb:
The pale vampire suddenly appeared behind us.
suddenly
The ancient coffin slowly opened.
adjective
Which word is the noun?
spooky — scream — graveyard — silently
graveyard
Which word is the verb?
haunted — ghost — strangely — terrifying
haunted
Which word is the adjective?
slowly — mysterious — witch — vanished
Which word is the adverb?
terrifying — terrified — terribly — terror
terribly
The sneaky vampire moved quietly through the dimly lit castle.
adverbs
At the stroke of midnight, a very hungry Dracula left the towering castle in search of blood.
midnight, Dracula, castle, search, blood
search can be a noun here because it names an activity/quest.
Find all the verbs:
The werewolf was carefully hiding when the unsuspecting campers entered the dark, cold forest.
hiding, entered
Find all the adjectives:
Three nervous campers heard a horrible noise outside the old cabin.
three, nervous, horrible, old
⭐ Sneaky one: numbers can function as adjectives when they describe how many.
Find both adverbs:
The cackling witch flew extremely quickly across the textured moon.
extremely, quickly
⭐ Quickly describes flew; extremely describes quickly.
Identify the part of speech of each italicized word:
The terrified campers quickly ran from the graveyard.