Adjectives
What is an adjective?
An adjective describes or modifies nouns or pronouns.
How many articles are there?
3
Give the definition of a noun.
A noun names a person, place, thing, activity, or idea.
The definition of a pronoun.
A pronoun replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
Name the 8 parts of speech.
Nouns, pronouns, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunction, interjection, preposition
There are four categories of adjectives that I mentioned briefly in class. They are descriptive, limiting, possessive, and intensifying. Name an adjective that is descriptive.
Anything that makes sense.
What are the articles?
a, an, the
Examples: boy, street, artist, city teacher, bridge, etc.
List 5 pronouns.
I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they, me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them....etc.
Name the noun in this sentence.
The car is red.
car
There are four categories of adjectives that I mentioned briefly in class. They are descriptive, limiting, possessive, and intensifying.Name an adjective that is limiting.
four, first, which, yellow, that, whose, etc.
The is a _________ article.
definite
A murder of crows is an example of what type of noun?
Collective
That is her drawing.
What is the pronoun in this sentence?
her
He was reading a book.
Find the adjectives and articles in this sentence.
The yellow car sped down the road.
The, yellow, the
A and AN are __________ articles.
indefinite
An idea like love, freedom, fear, or friendship is an example of what type of noun?
Abstract
Who is the author of that book?
What is the interrogative pronoun in this sentence?
Who-interrogative
that-relative
Name the verb in this sentence:
I rode a horse today.
rode
There are 6 questions that an adjective answers. Name them.
Which? Which one? What kind? How many? How much? Whose?
In the following sentence, which article should go in the blank? Why?
___ apple fell from the tree.
An
This word is used because it comes before a word with a vowel sound.
The word homework is an example of this type of noun.
Compound
In order to know what a pronoun is talking about, it needs a word or words before it that tell what the noun the pronoun is replacing. What is that word called.
Hint: It starts with an A
antecedent
We walk on the sidewalk.
In this sentence walk is a verb. Use the word walk in a sentence that turns it into a noun.
Example sentence:
After dinner, our family likes to go for a walk.