Winter Vocab
A gentle wind
Breeze
A person, place, thing, or idea
Noun
A sentence should always begin with this
A capital letter
Very cold, with frost forming on surfaces
Nor
Pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds
Hail
Describes a noun
Adjective
Every sentence needs a subject and a _______
A heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area
Blizzard
The 'Y' in FANBOYS stands for this
Yet
A hanging piece of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water
Icicle
Describes a verb
Adverb
True or false: It is a good idea to use a variety of sentence lengths when writing a paragraph.
True!
Cold and uncomfortable because of currents of cool air
Drafty
Which FANBOYS word works best in this sentence?
I go to the library, _______ I love to read.
For
A very strong wind
Gale
An action
verb
The end of every sentence needs this
Punctuation
Covered in partly melted snow
Slushy
Which FANBOYS word works best in this sentence?
The weather was cold, ______ bright and sunny.
Yet
Depressingly dull and bleak
Dreary
The person or thing doing the action
Subject
This comes in the middle of a sentence and connects two ideas together
Coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS)
Rain containing some ice, as when snow melts as it falls
Sleet
Which FANBOYS word works best in this sentence?
I know you must be tired, ______ I will let you sleep.
So