nouns/pronouns
What type of noun is in italics below?
Hatred has no place in our community.
What is ABSTRACT NOUN?
Find the verb and say the tense:
The magician cast a spell on the crowd.
Six tenses: present, past, future,
present perfect, past perfect, future perfect
What is past tense?
CAST
Find the adjectives in the sentence below:
The colorful birds cleaned their long feathers.
What are colorful and long?
Name all seven coordinating conjunctions
FANBOYS
For Yet
And So
Nor
But
Or
List five prepositional phrases
in up
on down
off above
of behind
with next to
Is the pronoun in the sentence an object or subject pronoun?
The sea monster devoured him in one bite.
What is an object pronoun?
HIM receives the action of the verb.
Pick the correct choice:
The artist had (drew, draw, drawn) a portrait years ago for the family.
What is DRAWN?
And it's past perfect:)
What are two questions to ask in order to find the ADJECTIVE?
How many?
Whose?
What kind?
Which one?
Name at least THREE subordinating conjunctions:
Remember, these words are known as dependent clause markers.
since
because
before
although
as soon as
Find the prepositional phrase:
After the parade, there were streamers everywhere.
What is:
After the parade
What type of noun is in italics?
The murder of crows roosted in the trees.
What is a COLLECTIVE noun?
Whats' wrong here?
I meaned what I said before, I am sorry!
What is I MEANT what I said?
Meant= PAST tense
What are two questions to ask in order to find the ADVERB?
What are:
How? To What Extent?
When? Why?
Where?
List three correlative conjunctions
Remember- they come in pairs
either...or
neither...nor
whether...or
both...and
Find the prepositional phrases:
I sat next to Joe during the movie.
What are:
next to Joe
during the movie
Name all of the pronouns in the sentence below:
She and I asked them to his party.
FOUR
she, I, them, his
Tense of verb?
The skier will have skied six of the seven highest peaks by next week.
Six tenses: present, past, future,
present perfect, past perfect, future perfect
What is future perfect?
will have skied
Find the ADVERBS in the sentence below:
Suddenly, the skies opened and the world seemed very dark and surreal.
What are suddenly and very
answering: When? Suddenly
How dark? very
Where does the comma belong? Why?
As soon as we take the test we can take a little break from grammar.
What is:
As soon as we take the test, we can take a little break from grammar.
*Remember- if the conjunction starts the sentence, you'll need a comma- if the subordinating conjunction is tucked in the middle...no comma!
List two interjections that show emotion and two that introduce a sentence.
emotion: introduction:
Oh no! Yes,
WoW! Sure,
Where does the apostrophe belong?
The womens group meets every Monday.
What is before the s?
The women's group meets every Monday.
Remember: if the plural word ends in an s- then the apostrophe goes AFTER the s. If the word is already plural and does not end in an s- then you out the apostrophe before the s. TRICKY!!
Fill in the blanks:
stink, __________, stunk
spread, _________, spread
swear, swore, ___________
What are:
stink, stank, stunk
spread, spread, spread
swear, swore, sworn
Choose the correct word(s)
The Canadian border is (longer, more longer, longest) than the US border even though the country has (more few, fewer, fewest) people.
What is longer, fewer?
Do you need a comma?
Nate and his friend, Harry prowled and darted through the forest to find treasures.
What is NO?
Nate and his friend, Harry prowled and darted through the forest to find treasures.
This would need a comma if the second part of the sentence could stand on its own- but this cannot:darted through the forest to find treasures.
PUNCTUATE the two sentences below:
Oh man I just dropped my ring down the drain.
During the play someone's cell phone went off.
What are:
Oh man! I just dropped my ring down the drain.
During the play, someone's cell phone went off.