Nouns
Bobby ran to the store. In the sentence the word Bobby is what?
What is a proper noun?
Identify the subject(s) and predicate(s) in the following sentence: Aqueducts and tunnels channel water from the Snowy Mountains for irrigation and hydroelectric power in the southeast.
What are Aqueducts and tunnels and channel?
A (n)________ is a word made by combining two words into one and leaving out one or more letters from the two words.
What is a contraction?
An exclamatory sentence ends with what form of punctuation?
What is an appositive?
What is a noun that is placed next to, or in apposition to, another noun to identify it or add information to it.
Names a general class of people, places, things, or ideas.
What is a common noun?
This is made up of two or more simple subjects that are joined by a conjunction and have the same verb.
What is a compound subject?
Identify any plurals, contractions, or possessives in the following sentence: At age eighteen, the young man’s thoughts wandered overseas.
What are young man's (possessive) and thoughts (plural)?
What are the types of sentences?
What are Interrogative, Exclamatory, Declarative, and Imperative?
What are the appositive (or appositive phrase) and noun in the following sentence: The musical Oklahoma! will be presented to the Parent-Teacher Association.
What are "The musical" and "Oklahoma!"
This names more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a plural noun?
What is the part of a sentence tells what the subject does or has.
Which word is correct? The drama club invited all the (actor’s, actors’) families to the play’s dress rehearsal.
What is actors'?
What type of sentence is the following: Tell me more about your fishing trip.
What is imperative?
Identify the appositive and noun in the following sentence: The “dark horse” candidate, James K. Polk, was backed by the Democratic party.
What are "the 'dark horse' candidate" and "James K. Polk"?
Name the two types of nouns.
This is the key noun or pronoun that tells what the sentence is about.
What is the simple subject?
These are how you would show possession, ownership, or the relationship between two nouns or pronouns?
What are an apostrophe s or an s apostrophe in the case of plurals and possessive pronouns (hers, his, yours, theirs, its)?
What type of sentence is the following sentence: That muddy dog just stole my hamburger!
What is exclamatory?
Is the following appositive phrase essential or unessential to the sentence? Roosevelt, our thirty-second president, was the only U.S. president to be elected to the presidency four times.
What is unessential.
Find all the nouns in the following sentence: His father, Martin Luther King Sr., was a minister and the son of a sharecropper.
What are father, Martin Luther King Sr., minister, son, and sharecropper?
A _____________ is a group of words that lacks a subject, a predicate, or both.
What is a sentence fragment?
On the board, write an example of a singular possessive noun.
Answers will vary, the answer should show an apostrophe s.
Identify the following type of sentence: Brianna was promoted to editor of the school newspaper.
An appositive phrase that is not essential to the meaning of the sentence is set off from the rest of the sentence by what?
What are commas?