Definitions
A word that signifies any person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
Name the nouns:
jump, laughing, love, into, behave, rope, Tanya
love, rope, Tanya
Name the verbs:
under, jump, kitten, swim, sun, sing, into
jump, swim, sing
What is the preposition?
A. Skip B. School C. His D. Besides
D. Besides
Identify the nouns in the following sentence and indicate if they are proper or common:
Mr. Lee informed Ted of his plan to replace the old walls. (4 parts)
Mr. Lee (proper), Ted (proper), plan (common), walls (common)
Words used to describe either some sort of action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
What are the nouns in this sentence?
The sickly cat visited the vet.
cat, vet
What is the verb in this sentence?
We need to buy a few bananas for the party tonight.
buy
What is the preposition in the sentence below?
The runner had to go across the track to get to the finish line.
Across
The verb in the following sentence is used to
Kara slammed the window to keep out the bees.
show action.
A word that links nouns and verbs together to provide information.
What is a preposition?
Nouns are used in writing to
communicate a specific person, place, thing, or idea
Verbs are used in writing to
link a subject to the word(s) that describe the subject
Prepositions are used in writing to
express a relationship based on position
names a person, place, thing, or idea that can be perceived by one or more of the five senses
What is a concrete noun?
A verb that helps the main verb (the verb that carries the meaning).
What are helping verbs?
23> am, is, are, was, were, been, be, can, has, shall, will, do, does, did, have, should, may, might, would, must, could, had
Find concrete nouns?
ocean, jealousy, pen, compassion, dog
ocean, pen, dog
Identify the verb in the sentence and indicate whether it is an action or linking verb:
I looked for my Severus Snape costume.
What is "looked" (action)?
What is the correct preposition?
The singer practiced before she went _______ the curtain to perform.
A. Below B. Through C. Above D. Around
Through
What is the preposition that completes the sentence?
The woman _____________ the counter was trying to help several customers at once.
What is "behind"?
A group of words in a sentence that work together to add important details about a person, place, or idea.
What is a prepositional phrase?
Name three abstract nouns.
Ms. Schaefer, fact, apartment, love, bucket, honesty, English
fact, love, honesty
contain the main verb plus one or more helping verb
What are verb phrases?
Name the preposition(s):
After the show, the performers celebrated with pizza and pigs in blankets.
What is "after", "with", and "in"?
Explain how the preposition is used in the sentence: The dog chased the cat under the table.
to show a relationship based on place