Nouns
What is the definition of a noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What does a pronoun do?
It takes the place of a noun.
What do verbs demonstrate?
Verbs demonstrate action or state-of-being/condition of a subject.
What do adjectives modify?
Nouns and pronouns.
This relates its object to another word in the sentence.
A preposition relates its object (usually a noun or pronoun) to another word in the sentence.
Which kind of noun is always capitalized?
A proper noun.
Please note: a common noun that begins a sentence will be capitalized.
What are the 4 characteristics of a personal pronoun?
Person, number, gender, and case.
What is an auxiliary?
A helping verb.
Please note: Auxiliaries join the main verb in making up the complete verb.
What do adverbs modify?
Verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.
FANBOYS
Coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
What type of nouns are a combination of two are more words?
Compound noun
Please note: a compound noun can be written as one word (closed), two words (one), or one hyphenated word.
Identify the type of pronoun highlighted in the following sentence:
Many of the early tennis players used their bare hands.
Many is an indefinite pronoun.
Please note: indefinite pronouns refer to non-specific persons, places, or things.
Identify the complete verb:
Joan has run a marathon down in Florida.
Joan has run a marathon down in Florida.
What 5 questions do adjectives answer?
Which one?
What kind?
How many?
How much?
Whose?
This joins a dependent clause to an independent clause.
A subordinating conjunction. The most common are: after, although, as, because, before, if, since, though, unless, until, when, and where.
What type of nouns refer to groups or units?
Collective nouns.
Please note: Whether a collective noun is singular or plural depends on the context of the sentence.
Which "selfish" pronoun has a function in a sentence?
Reflexive pronouns function as objects in the sentence and refer to the same person or thing as the subject.
Please note: intensive pronouns only emphasize a noun or pronoun already in the sentence.
Identify the complete verb:
In order to train for a marathon, Joan gradually increased her weekly mileage.
In order to train for a marathon, Joan gradually increased her weekly mileage.
What 5 questions do adverbs answer?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
To what extent?
Coordinating conjunctions that work in pairs.
Correlative conjunctions work in pairs: either/or; neither/nor; both/and; not only/but also.
What are the 7 functions of a noun in a sentence?
Subject, predicate noun, direct object, indirect object, object of a preposition, nouns of direct address, and objective complements.
What are the two reciprocal pronouns?
Each other and one another are the two reciprocal pronouns.
Most verbs in English are formed from what three basic principal parts?
Past, present, and past participle.
Name three types of adjectives.
1. Determiners (articles, possessives, demonstratives, interrogatives, indefinites)
2. Modifying Nouns (nouns that function as adjectives)
3. Proper Adjectives (formed from proper nouns)
4. Predicate Adjectives (comes after a linking verb)
List 4 ways an interjections can be used.
Agreement, disagreement, greeting, leave-taking, hesitation, politeness, introduction of a subject, or to show strong feeling.
Please note: an interjection can stand alone punctuated as a sentence or can appear along with a sentence in which it takes no part.