Nouns
What words are functioning as NOUNS?
My intellectual dad loves to read every night.
What is dad, night?
What is the simple predicate (verb)?
Monica threw the soccer ball across the field.
What is threw?
What is the prepositional phrase?
Plants were the first living things on earth.
What is "on earth"?
What is an adjective?
Which words function as adjectives?
The strong athlete help his team win the game.
What is " a word that describes/modifies a noun or pronoun"?
What are strong and close?
What is the definition of an ADVERB?
Which words function as adverbs?
After running 3 miles on extremely difficult terrain, I could barely move.
What is " a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb"?
What is extremely (describes the adjective difficult) and barely (describes could move)?
What words are used as NOUNS?
During the Christmas holiday, the crowded mall was a nightmare.
What is holiday, mall and nightmare?
What are the two simple predicates?
Friends sometimes argue when they spend too much time together.
What are argue and spend?
What are the two prepositions?
The policeman walked through the doorway and into the garden.
What is through and into?
What word functions as an adjective?
What type of adjective is it?
The sun feels very warm today.
What is warm?
What is a predicate adjective/adjective complement?
What is the definition of a conjunction?
What word functions as a conjunction?
What type is it?
Although he had a legitimate reason, Larry was absent from school.
What is "a word that joins words, phrases, or sentences"?
What is although/subordinating?
Peter's honesty allowed him to stay out of trouble.
What is Peter, honesty, and trouble?
What are the simple predicates, and what type of verbs is each one?
When it continued to rain all afternoon, Henry became increasingly angry.
What is continued (action) and became (linking)?
What are the prepositional phrases?
People around the world can communicate with each other through the internet.
What is around the world, with each other, and through the internet?
Which words function as adjectives?
What type/degree of adjectives are they?
The Canadian pilot became even more eager to take to the skies.
What is Canadian ( Proper Adjective )?
What is eager (comparative with more)?
What is an interjection? Which words function as interjections?
Roberta: Oh no! We have another research paper to complete this quarter!
Sammy: Well, I had better start now or I'll never finish it all.
What is " a word or phrase used to express emotion"?
What are "Oh no" and "Well"?
Carmine and I liked to tell scary stories to our younger siblings on Halloween.
What is Carmine, stories, siblings and Halloween?
What is the simple predicate?
The English teacher has corrected my poor grammar.
What is has corrected?
What are the prepositions?
I looked under my bed, behind my dresser, and above my bookshelf for my missing necklace.
What is under, behind, above, and for?
Which words function as adjectives?
When the old, gray-haired man died, he left money to his grieving family.
What is old, gray-haired, and grieving
Identify the part of speech of each word in the sentence. Check its function!
Oh, Carmine and I have often told funny stories at summer camp.
What is oh (interjection), Carmine (Proper noun), and (coordinating conjunction), I (pronoun), have (verb helper) often (adverb), told (action verb), funny (adjective), stories (noun), at (preposition), summer (adjective), camp (noun/object of the preposition)
Name the words functioning as NOUNS and explain its type.
Time seemed to go by quickly while she was watching television in English class.
What is time (abstract), television (common), class (common/concrete)?
What are the two simple predicates?
My father must have thought I could swim.
What is must have thought and could swim?
Name the prepositions and their objects.
Due to the storm, it was very difficult to walk against the wind.
What is Due to (preposition) storm (object)
and
against (preposition) and wind (object)?
Which words function as adjectives?
Which adjective indicates degree and which form of degree is it?
Susan became more and more tense as she studied for her parts-of-speech test.
What is tense and parts-of-speech?
What is tense (more indicates comparative degree)?
Identify the part of speech based on how each word functions in the sentence.
When a person cuts in line at the theater, someone usually scolds the cutter and sends him or her to the end of the line.
What is When ( subordinating conjunction), a (noun marker/article), person (noun), cuts (action verb) in (preposition) line (noun), at (preposition), theater (noun), someones (indefinite pronoun), usually (adverb), scolds (action verb) the (noun marker), cutter (noun), and (coordinating conjunction), sends (action verb) him (personal pronoun), or ( coordinating conjunction), her (personal pronoun), to (preposition), the (article), end (noun), of (preposition), the (article), line (noun).