Parts of Speech
A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things.
What is a noun?
The generic name for a person, place, or thing in a class or group. Unlike proper nouns, they are not capitalized.
What is a common noun?
A person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with.
What is a subject?
A noun phrase that is the recipient of the action of a verb.
This basketball team defeated the Lakers in 5 games to win the 2004 NBA Championship. They are also Mr. Sabah's favorite team. They are also the greatest team ever/
What is the Detroit Pistons?
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence.
What is a verb?
A noun that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English.
What is a proper noun?
The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject.
What is a predicate?
A noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a verb.
What is an indirect object?
This movie was released in 2009 and has since gone on to be the highest grossing film of all time (it's made the most money ever)
What is Avatar?
A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
What is an adjective?
A noun that possesses something. In most cases, it is formed by adding an apostrophe 's to the noun.
What is a possessive noun?
A pronoun that takes the place of a noun as the subject of a sentence.
What is a subject pronoun?
What is the direct object in this sentence?
Sue threw Jose the ball.
What is the ball?
This Billie Eilish song won the Grammy for Record of the Year in 2020.
What is Everything I Wanted?
A word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause.
What is a prepositon?
What type of noun is the subject in this sentence?
Brandon's phone is new.
What is possessive noun?
A pronoun that takes the place of a noun as the subject of a sentence.
What is an object pronoun?
What is the indirect object in this sentence?
Maryam baked Alexis a cake.
What is Alexis?
This team won the first every Super Bowl trophy in 1967.
What is the Green Bay Packers?
A word that can function by itself as a noun phrase in place of a noun.
What type of noun is at the end of this sentence?
I want to go visit Hong Kong.
What is a proper noun?
What type of pronoun is in this sentence.
Maria does not like him.
What is an object pronoun?
What is the direct object in this sentence? What is the indirect object in this sentence?
He passed her the paper.
Direct Object - Paper
Indirect Object - Her
This book series has seven of the top ten highest selling novels of all-time.
What is Harry Potter?