Parts of Speech
A person place thing or idea.
What is a noun?
You should read the directions.
What is a direct object?
The purple dinosaur is named Barney.
What is purple?
Where do commas go when using direct address?
Where is before and after the noun of direct address?
This verbal always acts as a noun and ends in -ing.
What is a gerund?
What are adjectives and adverbs?
I handed the police officer my license and registration.
I barely know how to eat with chopsticks.
What is barely?
Identify where the missing commas should go:
Mr. Rogers a tv show host is where I get my fit inspo from.
Where is before "a" and after "host"?
Identify the verbal in the following sentence:
The smiling clown frightened me.
What is smiling?
Linking, helping, and being are some words used to describe the jobs of this part of speech.
What is a verb?
Jeffery's backpack is heavy.
What is a predicate adjective?
True or False: A preposition only acts as a modifier answering which one, what kind, where, and / or when.
What is false?
What is Mr. Crew's phrase to remember where to place a comma when using direct quotations?
What is comma quotation mark?
This verbal is made up of the word "to" followed by a verb and can act as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
What is an infinitive?
Reveals location in space, location in time, or relationship between nouns in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
Mr. Brown used to be my mom's coworker.
Predicate Nominative
What questions does the underlined modifier answer?
We have spent four-thousand minutes in Mr. Crew's English class this quarter.
What is how many?
Why is the oxford comma necessary?
What is to make the sentence clearer / better understood?
This is the difference between a gerund and a participle when verbal ends in -ing.
A gerund functions as a noun while a participle functions as an adjective.
Sing the being verbs song, WORD for WORD.
Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, will, should, would, may, might, must, can, and could.
The songs from Hamilton make Mr. Crew irrationally angry.
Objective Complement
Identify every modifier in the sentence:
The deflated soccer ball sadly drooped over the tall iron pikes of the graveyard fence.
What are the, deflated, soccer, sadly, tall, iron, the, and graveyard.
There are several clauses that may be separated by commas. Name me one of me. (All for daily double).
What are independent clauses, introductory clauses, and nonessential clauses.
Craft a sentence using the following infinitives:
Gerund: Singing
Participle: Frightening
Infinitive: to cry
What is... [insert sentence here]?