Adjectives and Adverbs
What is the difference between adjectives and adverbs?
Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns.
Adverbs modify adverbs, adjectives, and verbs.
Provide at least three examples of pronouns and nouns.
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What is an interjection?
this part of speech shows excitement or emotion. It is punctuated by a comma or an exclamation point.
What is a preposition?
A word in a sentence that shows location, position, movement, or direction.
What are the three types of verbs?
Provide 5 examples of each
Helping:
Am, were, will, can, could.
Linking:
Looks, smells, is, am, become.
Action: jumps, sleeps, eats, runs, draws.
What is/are the adjective(s) in the following sentence?
I have two large yellow mugs.
Two, large, and yellow
What are the two categories of nouns? Provide examples of each.
Proper nouns
Common nouns
What is a conjunction?
A word that connects a words, phrases, or clauses.
What is the preposition in this sentence?
I couldn't find my book in my backpack, so I looked under my bed instead.
In, under
Identify the helping verb in this sentence:
Yesterday I was riding my bike all over town.
Write a sentence that has two adjectives and two adverbs.
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Identify the pronoun(s) and noun(s) in the following sentence.
My parents went shopping yesterday, they bought a new couch.
Parents, couch = noun
they= pronoun
Identify the conjunction in this sentence:
Either I will go to sleep when I get home or I will study for my test.
Either/or
List five prepositions
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Write a sentence that has an action verb and a helping verb
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Identify the adverbs in the following sentence:
The blue sports car drove past the park very quickly.
Write a sentence that contains one noun and one pronoun.
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Write a sentence that contains an interjection
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Write a sentence that contains at least one preposition.
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Identify the linking verb in this sentence.
The pizza tastes delicious.
Tastes
Identify the adjectives and adverbs in the following sentence.
On Saturday Joe and Mike installed two huge speakers in their dad’s blue car.
Adverbs: Saturday.
Adjectives: two, huge, blue.
Identify the nouns and pronouns in the sentence:
I bought myself an Apple Watch, I love it.
Nouns: apple watch
Pronouns: I myself it
What are the three types of conjunctions. Name two examples of each.
coordinating: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
Correlative: neither/nor, but/and, so/as
Subordinating: because , until, before, although even if.
Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence.
I will be going on vacation for two weeks.
For two weeks
What is the difference between a helping verb and a linking verb?
Provide 1 sentence that uses a linking verb and one sentence that contains a helping verb.
Linking verbs: link the subject the the rest of the sentence
Ex: I am a teacher
Helping verbs come before the main action verb
EX: I am writing