Nouns
What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place, or thing.
An action word.
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun.
What is a conjunction?
a part of speech used to connect words, phrases, or clauses together
What is a transition?
are words or phrases that act as bridges to connect ideas, paragraphs, and sentences
Is the word baseball a person, place, or thing?
thing
Which word is the verb? yellow, interesting, loud, smiled
smiled
Which word describes a noun? laughed, sunny, dirt, something
sunny
Which word is a conjunction? quickly, very, yet, every
yet
Identify the transition word: “First, we packed our bags.”
First, we packed our bags.
Identify the noun(s) in this sentence: “The attorney wrote a letter to his client."
attorney, letter, client
Identify the verb(s): “He swam across the lake at a very brisk pace.”
swam
Identify the adjective(s): “A very rich man asked me to join him on his large yacht for the evening.”
rich, large
Choose the best conjunction: “They had the option to go on the ski trip _____ stay at home.”
or
Which word is a transition? and, but, therefore, the
therefore
Choose the noun: jump, shirt, sweet, orange
shirt or orange (the fruit)
What verb best completes the sentence? "They ___ around the track."
"They ran around the track."
Which adjective best fits? “The man ran through the mud and his pants were ______.”
Answers will vary: ruined, dirty, muddy
(ex: The man ran through the mud and his pants were filthy)
Fix the sentence using the best conjunction(s): “He forgot his lunch. He was hungry. He finished the school day.”
"He forgot his lunch, so he was hungry, but he finished the school day."
Choose the best transition: “I forgot my lunch. ___, I was very hungry.”
Therefore / As a result / So
Rewrite this sentence by replacing the noun with another noun: "My brother went shopping."
Answers will vary: "My ____ went shopping"
(ex: "My friend went shopping.")
Change this verb to the past tense: "sleep"
slept
Add an adjective to this sentence: “The math test was ______.”
Answers will vary: The math test was ____.
(Ex: “The math test was difficult/challenging/hard/confusing.”)
Identify the conjunction(s): “She wanted to do well on her finals, so she studied every day, and she reviewed her notes carefully.”
so, and
Add a transition to connect these ideas: “We finished dinner. We had dessert.”
“We finished dinner. Then/Next, we had dessert.”