Parts of Speech
A part of speech that modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, often ending in -ly.
What is an adverb?
The words “Washington” and “Bingo” are examples of this kind of noun.
What are proper nouns?
Two kinds of verbs.
What is transitive and intransitive?
The words “a,” “an,” and “the” are known as this kind of adjective.
What is an article adjective?
The questions used to determine an adverb.
What is How? When? Where? To what extent?
A part of speech that expresses action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb.
What is a verb?
The words ”love,” “responsibility,” and “freedom“ are examples of this kind of noun.
What are abstract nouns?
The words “am, are, is, was were, be, being, been” are examples of this kind of verb.
What are helping verbs? Or what are linking verbs? (See page 9 in Tapestry’s English Grammar Handbook for a helpful chart.)
Find the adjective in this sentence:
The bedraggled puppy needed some love and a bath.
What is bedraggled?
The adverb in the following sentence is answering this question:
I was quite excited to see cake served for breakfast!
What is “to what extent”?
A part of speech that represents a person, place, thing, activity, or idea and can be singular or plural.
What is a noun?
The opposite of a proper noun.
What is a common noun?
This is the number of verb tenses.
What is twelve?
The questions used to find an adjective.
What is what kind? Which? How many? Whose?
These are the three degrees of comparison with both adjectives and adverbs: positive, _______, and superlative
What is comparative?
A part of speech that takes the place of a noun to avoid repetition, including the cases of nominative, possessive, and objective.
What is a pronoun?
The following words are an example of this kind of noun:
chickens’ men’s children’s churches’
What is a plural possessive noun?
The following are known as this kind of verb:
to eat, to make, to swim, to be, to meander, to emulate, to quibble)
What are infinitives?
Russian, Mexican, French, Chinese, British are all examples of this kind of adjective.
What is a proper adjective?
This word is modified by the adverb in this sentence:
The cat was unusually playful this morning.
What is playful?
A part of speech that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun and can indicate qualities such as color, size, or shape.
What is an adjective?
The following list of words are known as this type of pronoun: I, you, he/she/it, we, you, they
What are nominative pronouns?
These words in the past tense are considered to be _____.
ran, rode, bet, hurt, cut, bit, ate, blew, brought, drove, knew, paid, said, gave, froze, found)
What is irregular?
The examples of “hungry,” “hungrier,” and “hungriest” are examples of this type of adjective.
What are comparative adjectives?
This word is the adverb in this sentence:
The children went to bed later than their parents.
What is later?