Nouns ($)
What is a common noun?
Any person, place, or thing
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun.
(It can answer many questions about that noun.)
What is a verb?
A word that is an action or a state of being.
What is an adverb?
It describes a verb.
(It answers many questions)
What is called when we shorten words?
Abbreviation.
What is a proper noun?
A specific person, place, or thing
What question does this answer:
a red cup
What kind?
What word do we try to look for in a sentence to find how to split it?
The verb
What question does this answer:
He ran quickly.How was it done?
What is it called when we combine two words with an apostrophe in the place of a letter we get rid of?
Contraction
What is a plural noun?
More than one person, place, or thing.
What question does this answer:
two boys
How many?
What is the name for a non-action word?
A state of being verb
What question does this answer:
We sang yesterday.
When was it done?
What punctuation do we put around someone's exact words?
Quotation marks/ quotes
What is an abstract noun?
Something that cannot be seen or touched.
What question does this answer:
that shirt
Which one?
What is it called when there is a state of being verb + an action word?
Ex: She will read later.
A verb phrase.
What question does this answer:
He ducked down.
Where did he do the action?
What is it called when we combine words or sentences with a joining word?
Conjunction
What is a pronoun?
it takes the place of a noun.
What question does this answer:
Ben's book
Whose?
Can you name a state of being verb?
am, is, was, has
are, were, have, had
What question does this answer:
I read daily.
How often do you do this?
Can you name any possessive pronouns?
yours, mine, my, ours, our
his, hers, its, theirs, their