Nouns/Pronouns
Definition of a noun
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
The definition of an adjective
What is a word that describes a noun?
Type of verb that tells what a person, animal, or object can do
What is an action verb?
Theodore Roosevelt
What is a noun?
Tory sang loud in the car
What is wrong?
(Should be loudly)
The three types of nouns
What are common, proper, and abstract?
Find the adjectives (3):
The shiny purple balloon popped as soon as the excited toddler grabbed ahold of it.
What are shiny, purple, and excited?
Type of verb that links a subject to a word that describes it
What is a linking verb?
Giggling
What is a verb?
I am doing good
What is wrong?
(Should be well)
This type of noun is an idea. You cannot see/hear/taste/touch/smell it.
What is an abstract noun?
Ending letters of most adverbs
What is -ly?
Name 2 examples of BE verbs
(Hint: Linking verbs that Miss Anderson quickly named off from the list of 30)
What is am, is, was, are, can be, could be, will be, should have been, has been, etc.?
Herself
What is a pronoun?
Jason quickly stuffed his books in his backpack
What is right?
Find the nouns (3) and pronouns (2) in this sentence:
"The elephant stomped all over the flowers as she ran towards her herd."
What are elephant, flowers, herd (nouns)
and she and her (pronouns)?
"Danced gracefully" is an example of these two parts of speech
What is a verb and an adverb?
Find the verbs (2):
Rebecca climbed the tree as her little brother chased her across the yard
What is climbed and chased?
Nervously
What is an adverb?
An adverb can go anywhere in a sentence
What is right?
Find the abstract noun in this sentence:
Danny showed a lot of courage when he sang in front of the entire school at the talent show.
What is courage?
Find the adverb and the adjective:
Tommy ran excitedly across the damp grass.
What is excitedly (adverb) and damp (adjective)?
Find the verbs (3):
The house would have been clean, but the dog ran through and spread mud all over the floor
What is would have been, ran, and spread?
What is an adjective?
A verb can only be used in the -ing form
What is wrong?