Nouns
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a verb?
A word that shows action or being
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun or pronoun
What is a pronoun?
A word that takes the place of a noun
What is a preposition?
A word that shows how a noun or pronoun relates to another word in the sentence
What are the two noun jobs we’ve learned?
Subject Noun (SN) and Object of the Preposition (OP)
Find the verb: “The dog barked loudly.”
barked
What questions do adverbs answer?
How? When? Where?
Replace the noun with a pronoun: “John likes pizza.”
"He likes pizza"
Find the preposition: “The cat is under the bed.”
under
Find the subject noun: “The cat ran.
cat
What kind of verb is in this sentence: “The girl is happy”?
Linking Verb
What three questions do adjectives answer?
What kind? Which one? How many?
Identify the PPA and the object of the preposition
“Her shoes are under the bed.”
Identify the prepositional phrase: “The dog ran across the yard.”
across the yard
Find the object of the preposition: “The ball rolled under the chair.”
chair
Identify the helping verb: “They are running fast.”
are
Identify the possessive pronoun adjective (PPA): “Her dog barked.”
her
Identify the pronoun and its type: “That is my pencil.”
My- Possessive Pronoun Adjective
What question does a prepositional phrase answer?
Which one? or What kind?
Identify the nouns and their jobs: “The teacher walked to the board.”
teacher = SN, board = OP
Find the verb and tell if it’s action or linking: “The boy is tired"
is -linking verb
Change the adjective to an adverb: “He is a quick runner.” → “He runs ___.”
quickly
Fix the mistake: “Him went to the store."
He went to the store.
Identify the preposition and object: “The bird flew over the tree.”
over = preposition, tree = OP