definitions
The name of a person, place, thing or idea
What is a noun?
My hands are cold.
What is hands?
True or False? -A Adjective is a word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun.
True
"Could you, well, be quiet please? She is trying to work with them and can't hear." What are the pronouns and conjunction in this sentence?
What is you, she, them, and?
In what year did people dress up like clowns for no reason?
2016
A word that is used in the place if a noun
What is a pronoun?
Ms. Foster has (or by this time had) cheddar cheese pringles on her desk?
What is Ms. Foster, Pringles, and desk
"The shop is much nicer." What is the adjective in the sentence?
What is nicer?
"Slowly the man crawled down." What are the two adverbs in the sentence above?
What is Slowly, down?
How many bones are in the human body?
What is 206?
Expresses action or being
What is verb?
Landen loves to read books on Greek mythology.
What is Landen?
"I met a sad, lonely, homeless person on the busiest street in New York." What are the adjectives in the sentence?
What is homeless, sad, and lonely?
"The tree had lost all of its leaves by October." What is the pronoun in the sentence?
What is its?
What are the two longest rivers in the world?
What is the Nile and the Amazon?
This modifies or describes a noun or pronoun
What is adjective?
Skyler loves to wear a kilt and dance to bagpipes.
What is Skyler, kilt, and bagpipes?
Some adjectives and adverbs have the same form: A. "She's a fast driver." B."She drives fast." Which sentence above uses the word "fast" as an adjective?
What is A?
" The package next to the tree is mine." Wha is the preposition?
What is next to?
What is, currently, the largest animal on earth?
What is a blue whale?
Modifies a verb, an adjective, or another one of these
What is an adverb?
Rodger plays bass and Eli plays guitar.
What is Roger, bass, Eli, and guitar?
Identify the preposition in the sentence below.
The big, ugly cat sat on the old cushion and now it can't get up.
What is on?
Verbs that help the main verb in the sentence.
What is a helping verb?
How many hearts does an octopus have?
What is 3?