Know Your Nouns
True or False:
A noun tells about an action or a state of being.
What is false?
A noun names a person, a place, a thing, an animal or an idea.
A verb tells about an action or state of being.
find the verbs from the list of words below:
bus driver
yellow
drive
house
swim
What is?
drive & swim
Fix the verb cry to present tense in the sentence below:
The baby (cry) when his mommy put him down for a nap.
What is cries?
Remember, change the -y to -i and add -es if the verb ends with a consonant and -y and has a singluar subject.
Fix the capiltalization error in the sentence below:
The party is being held at chucky e. cheese and all the kids are so excited.
What is Chucky E. Cheese?
Remember, proper nouns -the names of specific people, places and things- are always capitalized.
The plural form of fox, meaning more than one fox.
What is foxes.
When singlular nouns end with -x, you usually add -es to make them plural.
The plural of child is _________.
What is children?
Find the verbs in the sentence below:
The dogs bark and run to the door.
What is bark and run?
True or False:
To make the present tense form of a verb, you usually add -ed to the end of the verb.
What is false?
The -ed ending of a verb means it is PAST tense, meaning it ALREADY happened.
TRIPLE JEOPARDY:
200 points for each mistake you can fix in the sentence below:
My family loves the holidays, especially the fourth of july, halloween and thanksgiving.
What is:
the Fourth of July
Halloween
Thanksgiving
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
get 200 points for each mistake you find:
We live in New york city, and go to school in brooklyn.
What is New York City? And Brooklyn?
Spell the plural (more than one) form of bench.
What is
benches
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Put the present tense form of the verb study into the sentence below:
Hunter (study) for his math test by practicing his multiplication flashcards each night.
What is studies?
Fix the spelling error in the verb in the sentence below:
The airplane flys high in the sky.
What is flies?
Place an apostrophe (') in the correct place in the sentence below:
The girls bike was pink and yellow and she rode it to school each day.
What is girl's?
Fix the errors in the sentence below:
The class goes out to the yard and play's in the schools' new garden.
What is plays and school's?
Spell the plural form of class. Meaning more than one class.
What is classes.
Identify the FOUR verbs in the sentence below:
The wind howls and the rain pours, while the children all run and grab their umbrellas.
What is howls, pours, run & grab?
Write the present tense verb honk in the blank to complete the sentence:
The bus driver ________ at the car blocking the driveway.
What is honks?
Place an apostrophe (') in the correct place in the sentence below:
The childrens teacher was absent yesterday, so they had a substitute teacher.
What is children's?
Fill in the blank:
The six puppies were so cute, they were all wagging their (plural form of tail).
What is tails?
Correct the 4 errors in the sentence below:
We visited three citys while on vacation. First, we went to chicago. Then, we went to denver. Lastly, we stopped in san Francisco.
What is..... cities, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco?
Use the present tense form of the verb crash in the sentence below.
The red bumper car (crash) into the blue bumper car.
What is crashes?
Fix the capitilization error in the sentence below:
I have traveled to many different countries, but italy is by far my favorite.
What is Italy?
Remember, proper nouns- names of specific people, places and things- are always capitalized.
Fix the capitalization errors in the sentence below:
One of my favorite authors as a child was roald dahl, I read the book charlie and the chocolate factory about ten times!
What is:
Roald Dahl & Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
500 points for each mistake you can fix:
All the familys came together for thanksgiving this year.
What is:
families & Thanksgiving