nouns
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
Takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
What is an adjective?
Describes an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
Modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
My favorite book is gone!
What is book?
Identify the pronoun: The teacher graded their tests.
What is their (3rd person possessive)
Identify the adjective(s):
The pretty lady sang the song.
What is pretty?
Identify the verb(s): She ran through the doorway.
What is ran?
Identify the adverb(s) in the following sentence:
Before the storm, I ran quickly to the store.
What is quickly? Modifies ran.
Names a specific person or place.
What is a proper noun?
Daily Double: Give an example!
Identify the pronoun(s): For the surprise birthday party, we waited in the dark behind the couch for them to arrive; however, no one showed up.
What is we (1st person plural) and them (3rd person plural), no one (indefinite pronoun)?
Identify the adjective(s): I quickly walked 100 miles just to get to you.
What is 100?
Identify the verb(s):
Running through the woods, the tree branches slammed into our arms repeatedly.
What is running and slammed?
Identify the adverb(s) in the following sentence:
Daffodils grow naturally in the yard.
What is naturally?
Identify the nouns AND the type of nouns: Adrian gave his presentation in front of the class.
Adrian: proper noun; presentation: common noun; class: common noun
Identify the pronoun(s): These were under the table.
What is These (demonstrative)?
Identify the adjective(s) and name the specific type: The French and Spanish language can be difficult for high school students to learn.
What is the (article), French (proper adjective), Spanish (proper adjective), high school (adjective)?
Identify the verb(s):
The student wrote down every word so she could study her notes later.
What is wrote and study?
Identify the adverb(s) and the word(s) they modify:
She was strangely silent during dinner.
What is strangely which modifies silent.
Identify the nouns in the sentence and specify the exact type: The beautiful flock of geese dove into the crystal clear water.
flock: collective noun
geese: common noun
water: common noun
Identify the pronoun(s) in the sentence:
The king himself presented the news to those sitting in the audience. He announced, " I will sign the paper myself initiating the peace agreement."
Himself - intensive
Those- demonstrative
He- 3rd person singluar
I - 1st person singular
myself - reflexive
Identify the adjective(s) and name the specific type:
This pencil is the only one.
What is This (adjective), the (article), only (adjective)?
Identify the verb phrase:
I would have made dessert if I had purchased more cake mix.
What is would have made and had purchased?
Identify the adverb(s) and the word(s) modified:
The moon shone so brightly over the sea.
What is so which modifies brightly which modifies shone?