People, Places, & Things
What is the name of living beings, places, things, or ideas?
Examples: love, hate, country, English
Nouns
A word used to describe an action?
a verb
This is a word that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence.
What is a conjunction?
A word used to describe or modify a noun:
an adjective
Which part of speech replaces nouns to help with repetition?
pronouns
What is a common noun? Give 3 examples.
Definition: words for types of things, people, places, such as "dog" that are not in capital letters.
Examples kitten, chair, education
"He is talking to me right now."
What part of speech is the word, "is?"
A helping verb which "helps" the word 'talking'.
Identify the conjunction in the following sentence:
Jesse did not have much money, but she went shopping anyways.
but
"Blue", "red", and "purple" are what part of speech?
adjective
Them, yourself, mine, her, they, their, them are all examples of what part of speech?
pronouns
Identify the proper nouns in the following sentence:
Mr. Smith lives in Boise, Idaho with his family.
Mr. Smith, Boise, Idaho
True or false: In order for a sentence to be complete, it has to have a noun and a verb.
true
What is the acronym we use for conjunctions?
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
FANBOYS
Identify the adjective in the sentence: "The dog is small and fluffy."
What are small and fluffy?
This subject pronoun replaces "John" in the sentence, "John plays soccer every day."
What is he?
"Run" is what part of speech in this sentence?
I went on a long run.
noun
Find the helping verb in this sentence: "She is dancing in the competition."
What is is?
Identify the conjunction in the following sentence:
I want to eat pizza or burgers at that restaurant.
or
Identify the comparative adjective in the sentence: "This puzzle is easier than the last one."
What is easier?
Identify the object pronoun in the sentence: "Jessica gave the book to him."
What is him?
A name of a particular person or place. Give 2 examples.
Proper Noun Definition: A name of a particular person or place.
Mr. Smith, Superman, Susie
Identify the tense of the verb in the sentence: "They will sing at the concert tomorrow."
What is future?
Identify the conjunction in the sentence and explain its use: "She didn't like the movie, although it had great reviews."
What is although? It is a subordinating conjunction that introduces a contrast between the two clauses.
Give an adjective to completes the sentence: "Of all the players, she is the _______."
What is fastest, prettiest, tallest, slowest, etc.?
Replace "The students" with both a subject and object pronoun in the sentence, "The students listened to the teacher, and the teacher praised the students."
What are they and them?