Parts of Speech
A person place thing or idea
What is a noun
desk, tree, dog, person, computer, game, pencil
What is a noun (common nouns)
Simple Subject: The angry teacher yelled loudly at her wonderful students.
What is teacher
Simple Subject: The beautiful sunlight shone brightly through the bedroom window.
What is sunlight
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree,
Ex.) often, never, generally, briefly, bitterly
What is an adverb
A word or phrase naming an attribute that modifies or describes a noun.
What is an Adjective
blue, green, red, smelly, tall, thin, fast, hungry.
What are adjectives
Complete Subject: The angry teacher yelled loudly at her wonderful students.
What is the angry teacher
Complete Subject: The beautiful sunlight shone brightly through the bedroom window.
What is The beautiful sunlight
a figure, symbol, or group of these denoting a number.
Ex.) three, five, 10, V VII, X
What is a numeral
A word used to describe an action
What is a verb
walk, walked, walking, run, ran, running
What are verbs
Simple Predicate: The angry teacher yelled loudly at her wonderful students.
What is yelled
Simple Predicate: The beautiful sunlight shone brightly through the bedroom window.
What is shone
a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse.
Ex.) I, You, We, Jerry, The Washington Monument
What is a pronoun
This term (part of speech) forms the main part of the predicate in a sentence
What is a verb
Identify the nouns in this sentence. the man walked along the river and collected flat stones.
What are man, river, stones.
Complete Predicate: The angry teacher yelled loudly at her wonderful students.
What is yelled loudly at her wonderful students
Complete Predicate: The beautiful sunlight shone brightly through the bedroom window.
What is shone brightly through the bedroom window
a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause
Ex.) to, into, at, for since,
Ex.2) She drove to the house
What is a preposition
This type of noun can be perceived with the senses
What is a concrete noun
identify the verbs in the following sentence. The man ran towards his house, then a dog chased him.
What are ran and chased
Complete Subject: The bright white clock ticked loudly on the classroom wall.
What is the bright white clock.
Complete Predicate: The bright white clock ticked loudly on the classroom wall.
What is ticked loudly on the classroom wall.
a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.
Ex.) And, but, or, yet
Ex.2) I tried to hit the nail, but hit my thumb instead
What is a conjunction