parts of speech
names a person, place, thing or idea
noun
He, I, his, she, her, they, their, them are all examples of what part of speech?
pronouns
A noun or pronoun that performs a verb action
the subject
What two lowercase letters should be written over the word "it"?
pr -it is a pronoun
What part of speech is Shere Khan?
A compound noun. It has two words combined to form a single noun.
about, beneath, concerning, during, like, of are examples of what?
prepositions
a, an, the
Article Adjectives
what symbols are used to mark a main clause
[ ]
Identify the nouns in the following sentence:
The tiger could not capture wild game.
tiger & game
What are the 4 things every sentence must have?
capital letter, punctuation, noun, verb
Prepositional phrases are underlined with "prep" above the preposition and "n" over the final word
Answers the questions how, when, where, or to what extent?
takes the place of common and proper nouns
personal pronoun
ends in -self (singular) or -selves (plural) and refers to the subject of the same sentence
reflexive pronoun
Contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. It can stand alone in a sentence.
Main Clause
In order for a sentence to be complete, it has to have these two parts of speech.
Noun (subject) and Verb
Replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition. It refers back to the person or thing recently mentioned (the antecedent)
pronoun
FANBOYS
a coordinating conjunction= for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
#2 prepositional opener
a sentence that begins with a prepositional phrase
functions as a single verb but is combined with another word to form an idea that is different from the two individual words
phrasal verb
ej: The boy could not catch up with the wolves.