Noun what?
A person, place, thing, idea (or animal)
What is a noun?
An action or experience
What is a verb?
It's a two part answer.
One describes a noun or a pronoun, the other describes a verb, an ____ or another _____.
What is an adjective and a adverb?
Express strong emotion and is often followed by an exclamation mark.
Wow! Huh! Eek!
What is an interjection?
Replaces the name of a person, place, thing or idea in a sentence (I, she, our, they, it)
What is a pronoun?
Undefined or generic people, places, or things.
Ex. house, cat, girl, foot, country
What is a common noun?
Flew, got, went, gone
What are past tense verbs?
Look for the adverb
The storm seriously hampered communication.
What is seriously?
Connect words, phrases or clauses in a sentence.
Ex. and, but although, or
What is a conjunction?
Describes the place, time, or direction. It is used before a noun or pronoun (under, above, in, during)
What is a preposition?
A noun that can be perceived through the five senses.
ex. table, apple, rabbit, ear
What is a concrete noun?
I walk
I dream
I buy
I'm texting
What are present tense verbs?
Look for the adverb
He was softly singing to the baby.
What is softly?
Michael is not ready for surgery.
What is for?
The bone is between the two dogs.
What is between?
Ex. love, creativity, democracy
What are abstract nouns?
I will
I shall
What are future tense verbs?
Look for the adjective
We had a difficult test today.
What is difficult?
Look for the interjection.
Bravo! You spelt is correctly.
Look for the preposition.
Death Valley is 86 meters below sea level.
What is below?
Refers to a group that functions as one unit or performs the same action at the same time.
Ex. crowd, flocks, committee, a sum of money
What is a collective noun?
We consider ourselves to be extremely lucky.
What is consider?
Look for the adjective
This fiberglass is unbreakable.
What is unbreakable?
Look for the conjunction.
Henry is very clever in Math, so he went to college for physics.
What is so?
Look for the preposition.
He is nothing without my support.
What is without.