Nouns/Pronouns
The definition of a noun
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
Adjectives modify these parts of speech.
What are nouns?
This type of verb expresses physical or mental action.
What is an action verb?
Sentence pattern 1 is ___________.
What is NOUN + ACTION VERB?
True or false: A helping verb helps create different tenses.
What is "true?"
In the following sentence, identify the proper noun.
My grandmother made her famous apple pie for the Tulsa State Fair. She won the pie contest!
What is the Tulsa State Fair?
Identify the adjective.
Molly received a lower score than Davy on her test.
What is lower?
Identify the action verb.
Cinderella dreamed about Prince Charming.
What is "dreamed?"
This sentence pattern includes a direct object.
EX: Rylah makes bracelets.
What is pattern #2?
List all eight be verbs.
What is "am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been?"
Identify all FOUR nouns in this sentence.
In fear of a hungry predator, the turtle retreated inside his shell.
What is fear, predator, turtle, and shell?
Adverbs can modify these three parts of speech.
What is a verb, adjective, or other adverb?
This type of verb connects a subject to an adjective (predicate adjective) or a subject to another noun (predicate nominative).
What is a linking verb?
Identify this sentence pattern:
The rat grew fat.
What is sentence pattern 4?
(N - LV - ADJ)
List FIVE prepositions. HINT: The mouse goes _____ the box.
in, under, above, near, around, by, toward
The definition of a pronoun
What is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns?
Identify the adverb AND the part of speech it modifies.
I learned to read at a very young age.
What is "very?" What is an adjective?
Decide whether the following verb is an action verb or a linking verb.
The student feels sick.
What is a linking verb? (You could replace "feels" with "is" and the sentence makes sense.)
Identify this sentence pattern:
The student gave the teacher attitude.
What is sentence pattern #3? (N - V - IO - DO)
Identify what "cover" functions as in this sentence. (What job does it have?)
Albert lost the book with the red cover.
What is an "object of the preposition?"
Identify the TWO antecedents in the following sentence.
Kelci enjoys reading books because they take her on adventures which she cannot afford in real life.
Who is Kelci? AND What are books?
Create a sentence with compound modifiers.
The sentence must either contain a noun with two adjectives or a verb with two adverbs.
The be verbs can function as either a __________ verb when paired with another verb or a ____________ verb.
What is a "helping" verb and a "linking" verb?
EX: She has been waiting for the album release.
EX: Jack Sparrow is a pirate.
Identify the direct and indirect objects.
Mom will lend Timmy fifteen dollars to spend at the movie theatre.
IO = Timmy
DO = dollars
Like coordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions connect grammatical equals. List one pair of correlative conjunctions.
What is "either / or," "neither / nor," "both / and," or "not only / but also?"