Parts of Speech
Planet, dog, and basketball are examples of this part of speech.
What is a noun?
Mrs. Edmonson...Mrs. McInnis...Mr. Rein...Dr. Frankenstein.
What are titles and proper nouns?
Identify:
He laughs in everyone's face.
What is a present-tense verb?
The name of phrases like "he said" and "Juaquin asked."
What are dialogue tags?
mr. bob gasped "it can't be"!
Correct:
Mr. Bob gasped, "It can't be!"
Swim, sing, and swing are examples of this part of speech.
What is a verb?
Company names, cities, and sports teams are all examples of this part of speech that must always be capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
Identify:
Her face shined like an expensive diamond.
What is a simile?
This punctuation mark connects the dialogue tag to the quote.
What is a comma?
How Dare you screeched My Mom!
Correct:
"How dare you!" screeched my mom.
This part of speech modifies nouns and pronouns.
What is an adjective?
Dani Edmonson
Shelbe McInnis
Trey Rein
What is the correct capitalization of proper nouns/names of people?
Identify:
She will be having a Spongebob birthday party.
What is a future tenseverb?
The location of a question mark or exclamation mark of a quote.
I can't believe this" Muttered Mrs. jones. "the johnsons got an even bigger pool"!
Correct:
"I can't believe this," muttered Mrs. Jones. "The Johnsons got an even bigger pool!"
!!DAILY DOUBLE!!
List all of the F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.
For, And, Nor, But/Because, Or, Yet, So.
English
French
Spanish
Japenese
What is the correct way to capitalize languages?
Identify:
This whole Covid thing blows my mind!
What is an idiom (I will accept hyperbole, but you should know better by now!)?
This punctuation is used to show a quote within a quote.
What are single quotation marks?
Their is no crying in Baseball, but they're are a lot of snacks: nachos, popcorn, and hotdogs are only a small sample of what to eat.
Correct:
There is no crying in baseball, but there are a lot of snacks: Nachos, popcorn, and hotdogs are only a small sample of what to eat.
A sentence will often be incomplete if it starts with this part of speech.
What is a conjunction?
"I can't wait for Thanksgiving break!" Sandra exclaimed.
What is the correct way to punctuate dialogue?
Identify:
I remembered back to the time when people were nice to each other.
What is a past tense verb?
When a quote is broken by a tag line and the quote is a complete sentence, this should be how to start the second quote.
What is lower case?
You're grammar test is on friday ms. hall reminded them again you should study for it if you want to do well you should take notes too
Correct:
"Your grammar test is on Friday," Ms. Hall reminded them again. "You should study for it if you want to do well, and you should take notes too."
"Your grammar test is on Friday," Ms. Hall reminded them again. "You should study for it if you want to do well. You should take notes too."
"Your grammar test is on Friday," Ms. Hall reminded them again. "You should study for it if you want to do well; you should take notes too."