Nouns, Pronouns, and Proper Nouns
A noun is a person, place, or thing...True or False
What is True
What is the noun in the next sentence:
I went to the store on Wednesday.
What is "store"
What is the pronoun in the following sentence?:
She needed to take out the trash as soon as possible.
Who is "she"--this is the correct answer because "she" takes place of a proper noun which is a noun.
Name the verb in the following sentence?:
I wanted to go to the park today.
What is "to go"
What is the interjection in the following sentence?:
I said "Ouch!" after the bee stung me twice.
What is "Ouch!"
A pronoun (I/you/he/she/it/we/they) takes place of a proper noun (Anna, Mexico, Paris, the Eiffel Tower), etc. ... True or False?
What is True
What is the noncount (uncountable) noun in this sentence?:
I went to the store to by some bread.
What is "bread," since bread typically isn't pluralized
What is the pronoun in the following sentence?:
Paris is the city I would like to go to someday.
Who is "I"--this pronoun takes place of a name (which is a proper noun).
Name the two (2) verbs in the following sentence:
Today it rained so badly that the basement flooded.
What are "rained" and "flooded"
What is the determiner in the sentence below?:
I bought some milk.
What is "some"
What is the proper noun in the following sentence?
Maria folded her clothes in the laundry room.
Who is Maria
What is the countable noun in the below sentence?:
I love apples because they are my favorite fruit.
What are "apples" is the correct answer. Apples are a countable noun since it's plural and you can count it--versus fruit which is a noncount noun.
My cat, Shadow, got a new type of cat food but didn't like it.
What is "it"--this is a pronoun that replaces the phrase "a new type of cat food."
Name the two (2) adjectives in the following sentence:
The newspaper is printed in black and white, and is delivered on Thursdays.
What are "black" and "white"--these words are descriptive so they are adjectives.
What is the determiner in the following sentence?:
I want an apple.
What is "an"
Find the two proper nouns in the next sentence:
I went to Cancún in January because it was nice weather there.
What are Cancún and January
What is the noun in the next sentence?:
I like Maria because she's nice.
Name the pronoun in the following sentence:
They didn't want to go to work today.
What is "they"--this takes the place of the persons' names who did not want to go to work.
Name the adverb in this sentence:
Maria quickly made the decision to go to the store before it rained.
What is "quickly"--this is an adverb because it describes how Maria made the decision.
What is the preposition in the following sentence?:
I want some milk with my coffee.
What is "with"
Find the three (3) proper nouns in the sentence:
Maria, Anna, and Jasmine went to the store.
Who are: "Maria," "Anna," and "Jasmine"
Name the three (3) noncount (uncountable) noun in the next sentence:
I needed some money to buy milk because all we had was water to drink.
What are "money," "milk," and "water"
Name the three pronouns in the following sentence:
The directions didn't make sense to us because they seemed like she didn't explain the concepts enough.
What are "us," "they," and "she"
Name the two (2) verbs in the following sentence:
I wanted to get out of the house by 3pm to arrive at the gym by 3:30pm.
What are "to get out" (a phrasal verb) and "to arrive"
What is the conjunction in the following sentence?:
I'd like sugar and hot coffee, please.
What is "and"