Nouns
Complete the definition:
"A noun is a word that names: .............................."
"a person, place, thing, or quality."
Is this the correct spelling of Onomatopeia?
No. You are missing an "o"
Every appositive requires........
atleast 2 pieces of punctuation.
(combination of commas and periods)
Identify the verb: "Sue has a black puppy in her back pocket."
Verb: "Has"
A hamburger essay contains how many paragraphs?
5
Identify the common nouns in the sentence:
"Candy is made from the sucrose, which is sugar."
Candy, sucrose, sugar
In the movie "Akeelah and the Bee", the main character got all the way to the end and won the spelling bee. What was the name of the boy she tied with?
Dylan
Identify the appositive in the sentence:
"Uncle Joseph would laugh at my dog, Fido, for scratching the door."
Fido
".........action, being, or a state of being"
The first paragraph of a hamburger essay is known as:
the introduction
Provide 2 proper nouns for the word "university".
Harvard, York, UofT, and on..........
What 2 root words combine to make the compound word "soliterraneous"?
Solar and terrain
how many pieces of punctuation (minimum) should a sentence have, if it contains an appositive?
2
Identify all of the verbs in the sentence:
"The car reached the CN Tower and ripped the sign from the road."
reached and ripped
If the 50 words spelling test takes place next class....you would have studied approximately how many spelling words so far, this year?
180
9 lists x 20 words= 180
Identify the proper nouns in the sentence:
"Terry Fox ran all the way to Thunder Bay."
Terry Fox and Thunder Bay
Is this the correct spelling of "archeaologist"
No. the "a" and "e" are backwards
My bedroom, the smallest room in the house, is mine.
the smallest room in the house
Identify all of the verbs in the sentence:
"The wind whistled and blew until the man threw his jacket to the wind.
whistled, blew, and threw
Just before paper was invented, name 2 other items that humans used for writing materials?
papyrus, clay tablets, animal skin, wax tablets, bones, shells, wood, or silk.