Sentences
Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on?
I enjoy being in school English is my favorite subject.
Run-on
Choose the correct homophone in the sentence.
My cousins invited me to swim in (they're, their, there) pool.
Their
What are the 4 genres of writing that we have learned?
Informative, opinion/persuasive, narrative, and descriptive.
I will go to the mall later today.
Future tense
"will go" "later today"-has not happened yet
What is a noun?
A person, place, or thing.
What are the four types of sentences?
Exclamatory, imperative, interrogative, declarative
Choose the correct pronoun to replace the italicized words.
My brother is driving Laura and me to the airport.
My brother is driving us to the airport.
Identify the genre of writing:
A book about polar bears, where they live, and what they eat.
Informative Writing.
Identify the linking verb in the sentence.
This English Jeopardy game is very difficult.
Common or proper noun?
grocery store
Common Noun
Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on?
When I get home from school.
Fragment
Choose the correct pronoun to complete the sentence.
Dad and ( me / I) are going fishing this weekend.
Dad and I are going fishing this weekend.
Identify the genre of writing:
A book about a character named Harry Potter that goes to school to learn how to be a wizard.
Narrative Writing.
Choose the sentence that is written correctly.
1. My cousin live in Chicago.
2. My cousin lives in Chicago.
2. My cousins lives in Chicago.
Which of the following sentences is written correctly, and why?
1. I am going to my friend emilys house after school.
2. I am going to my friend Emily's house after school.
2. I am going to my friend Emily's house after school.
Is it an interrogative, declarative, exclamatory, or imperative sentence?
Take out the trash!
Imperative sentence. It is giving a command
Identify the preposition in the sentence.
I will see my best friend when I get on the bus.
On
What are the 5 narrative elements in the narrative structure diamond?
Entertaining beginning, elaborative detail, suspense, The main event, extended ending.
Identify the verb phrase in the sentence.
I have made my mom a birthday cake every year, for the last 5 years.
have made
Identify the adjectives in the sentence.
I ate three tiny, delicious munchkins for breakfast.
three, tiny, delicious
What are the two things that every sentence needs in order for it to be a complete thought.
A subject and a predicate
Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence.
I found my sneaker behind the couch.
Behind the couch.
What are the 4 ways to create suspense in a narrative story?
Red flag words, word referents, story questions, and the magic of three.
Is the following sentence in the active or passive voice?
The child chased the dog.
Active Voice.
Active voice is when the subject of a sentence completes the verb's action.
Name at least one of the rules of dialogue that you should use when writing a narrative.
1. Begin dialogue with a capital letter.
2. When a quotation is interrupted by a dialogue tag, the second part of the dialogue begins with a lower case letter.
3. Punctuation marks go inside the quotation marks.
4. Do not put a period at the end of a quotation if it is followed by a dialogue tag. Use ?, !, or ,
5. Start a new paragraph when somebody new starts talking.