Nouns
True or false; a noun is a word to describe an action.
False. A noun is a word to describe a person, place, or thing.
Give an example of an action verb.
Swim, walk, run, eat.
What is the purpose of an adjective?
To give more information about a noun or pronoun.
What is the purpose of an adverb?
To modify or tell us more about a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What part of speech is "book"
A noun
Define a common noun.
A common noun is a noun that doesn't describe a specific person, place, or thing. It is not capitalized in a sentence.
Define a verb.
A word that indicates an action or state of being.
What are the three articles?
The, a, an
Name 5 adverbs
Some examples may be: 'slowly, fast, weekly, now, very, happily, loudly, quickly'.
What part of speech is "kicked"
A verb
Give an example of a proper noun.
A proper noun is a noun that needs to be capitalized in a sentence. Examples might be a persons name (Sarah), a specific place (New York City), or a specific thing (Google).
What is a transitive verb?
A transitive verb is a verb that has a direct object. ("he kicked the ball" is an example sentence with a transitive verb because it has the action "kicked" and an object "ball")
Give an example of an interrogative adjective (an adjective that asks a question)
Who, what, where, when, why, how, which, whose are some examples of interrogative adjectives.
What is usually the fastest way to spot an adverb?
An adverb will usually be a word that ends with "-ly".
What part of speech is "fast"
Adjective or adverb
Define a concrete noun.
A concrete noun is something you can experience with your five senses (touch, taste, see, smell, hear).
What is an intransitive verb?
An intransitive verb is a verb that doesn't have a direct object ("they arrived at the party" is an example of an intransitive verb because "arrived" has no following object)
In the sentence "those shoes are not mine", which word is a demonstrative adjective?
Can one word ever be both an adverb and an adjective?
Yes. For example, words like fast, daily, and clean act as both adjectives and adverbs.
What part of speech is "Value"
Verb or noun
"The girl's cake" is an example of what type of noun?
Possessive noun
What are the 7 forms of the 'be' verb.
Am, is, are, was, were, being, been are the 7 forms of the be verb.
What is an indefinite adjective?
An adjective that describes a group without being specific (for example: some, all, most, any)
Give 5 example questions that adverbs can answer
Some questions adverbs can answer might be: 'to what extent?', 'how?', 'when?', 'how often?', 'under what circumstance?', 'how much?', and 'where?'.
What specific part of speech is "belief" (label the part of speech to make it more specific, for example 'indefinite adjective' or 'count noun')
An abstract noun