Nouns & Pronouns
He/She is a noun. True or False?
FALSE
What are the 3 types of verbs?
Action, Linking, Helping
Define a conjunction. BE SPECIFIC
Combines words, sentences or phrases
Give the definition of an adjective. BE SPECIFIC.
Describes or modifies a NOUN.
How many nouns and verbs are in this sentence? I just need a number.
The young kids, along with the older parents, swam in the ocean, walked on the beach, and ate their lunches.
Nouns- kids, parents, ocean, beach, lunches
Verbs- swam, walked, ate
Total=8
What is the definition of a noun? Must get the ENTIRE phrase.
A person, place, thing, or idea.
Identify the verb(s)
She slowly walked into the room.
Walked- Action Verb
When there are 3 or more nouns together, combined with a conjunction, this is called....
Ex: I went to the store and bought milk, eggs, and cheese.
Items in a series
What is the phrase we use to find prepositions when we are having trouble?
The squirrel climbed ______ the tree.
Label each word in this sentence using VICNAPPA. Must include specifics (LV, HV, AV, CN, PN, Article, Prep, Object of the Preposition-OP). Words can have more than one label!
Robbie and Margie sang a song.
Robbie- PN and-Conj Margie-PN
sang-AV a-Art song-CN
What is the definition of a prounoun?
It takes the place of a noun.
Define an: Action, Linking, and Helping Verb
Action- Something you can physically do
Linking- Stands alone in a sentence. Acts as the main verb
Helping- Helps the action verb (usually comes 2-3 words before the action verb)
What is the interjection(s)?
Oops! I am, uh, sorry for doing that.
Oops & Uh
Name all of the adjectives in this sentence.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Quick, Brown, Lazy
What is the adverb in the sentence and what type of speech is it modifying?
The girl’s very dirty shirt went in the wash
Very and Adjective (Dirty)
Identify the pronouns in the sentence.
She called her mother.
She, Her
Name 3 adverbs that do not end in -ly
What is the phrase (mnemonic device) we use to remember our correlating conjunctions & what do each of the letters stand for?
V-Verb, I-Interjection, C-Conjunction, N-Noun, A-Adjective, P-Preposition, P-Pronoun, A-Adverb (A-Article, S-Subject, P-Predicate)
Find the prepositional phrase(s). What is the preposition, what is the object of the preposition?
The boy with the curly hair ate lunch at the park
With the curly hair (With-Prep, Hair-OP)
At the park (At-Prep, Park-OP)
How many prepositions are in this sentence?
After the game, Lou and I went to Swensons so we could sit in the car, and eat our food under the stars.
4
Name all the nouns in the sentence...Common & Proper.
Ricky and his mother were talking about the Cleveland Browns game from last night and were disappointed because of how the players lost the game.
Ricky- PN mother-CN Cleveland Browns-PN
game- CN night-CN players-CN game-CN
What 3 parts of speech can an adverb modify?
Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
What are the 3 F's of conjunctions?
For, From, Of
Find all of the prepositional phrases and the adjectives in this sentence.
The tall skinny kid with a large orange basketball and a blue Powerade sports drink was about to make a final shot.
Adj- tall, skinny, large, orange, blue, Powerade, sports, final
Preposition-With a large orange basketball
Label each word in this sentence using VICNAPPA. Must include specifics (LV, HV, AV, CN, PN, Article, Prep, Object of the Preposition-OP). Words can have more than one label!
Samantha quickly ran through the streets of Boston.
Samantha-PN Quickly-Adv Ran-AV
Through-Prep The-Art Streets-CN
Of- Prep Boston-PN & OP