Prepositions and Conjunctions
List the seven coordinating conjunctions.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
List the types of words (two for adjectives and three for adverbs) that adjectives and adverbs describe.
What is adjectives–nouns and pronouns and adverbs–verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?
Write out the verbs only and indicate if they are action or linking verbs:
Chuck is taking down orders because he is a waiter at the restaurant where the food smells good.
What is:
Action: is taking
Linking: is and smells ?
Write the nouns only and list if they are singular and plural:
The bag of apples was given to the children and my grandmother.
What is:
S–bag and grandmother
P–apples and children
Without shortening it (two words) indicate if the bolded word is a proper adjective or proper noun:
Yennifer spoke Icelandic at home with her friends.
What is a proper noun?
What is the coordinating conjunction in this sentence:
You can't always get what you want but you might get what you need.
What is but?
Indicate if the bolded word is an adjective or an adverb (do not shorten it):
A tired puppy took a nap in the small box.
What is an adjective?
Write out the whole verb phrase and label which part of it is a helping verb and which part is the main verb:
The cake could have been baked for longer if you read the instructions.
What is could have been baked? (B: helping U:Main)
Write out the collective noun in this sentence:
Tyrone saw the audience leap to its feet at the end of the play.
What is audience?
List the three articles
What are a, an, and the?
What is the subordinating conjunction in this sentence:
Patty sang a song while Ellen did her dance.
What is while?
Write out the sentence and underline the adverbs (3):
Franklin quietly told Jerome that he walked there yesterday.
Write the sentence and underline the adjectives (6):
The spooky vampire is tall and dangerous with his sharp teeth and red cape.
What is:
Franklin quietly told Jerome that he walked there yesterday.
Write out the sentence, underline the verbs, and indicate if they are transitive or intransitive:
Maybelle made biscuits and the air smelled delicious while she waited.
What is:
Maybelle made (T) biscuits and the she read (I) lazilyy while she waited (I).
Write the sentence, underline the pronoun, and indicate if its intensive or reflexive:
Rogelio gave himself credit for his strategy.
What is:
Reflexive
Rogelio gave himself credit for his strategy.?
What is a transitive verb has an object and an intransitive verb doesn't have an object?
Write out the sentence and underline the correlative conjunction(s):
Richie could take either the lo mein or the rice with his meal.
What is:
Richie could take either the lo mein or the rice with his meal.
Write the sentence and underline the adjectives (6):
The spooky vampire is tall and dangerous with his sharp teeth and red cape.
What is:
The spooky vampire is tall and dangerous with his sharp teeth and red cape.
Write out the sentence and label if verbs are action verbs, linking verbs, and if they're action indicate if they're transitive or intransitive:
The ocean looked beautiful while the children built sandcastles and ran around the beach.
What is:
The ocean looked (L) beautiful while the children built (A–T) sandcastles and ran (A–I) around the beach.
Write out the sentence and label if the pronouns are personal or possessive:
I take it you're looking for your backpack?
What is:
I take it you're looking for your backpack?
Pers. Pers. Poss.
Write out the full name of the bolded pronoun's type:
Who is standing outside?
What is interrogative?
Write out the sentence, underline the conjunction(s?) and write out the full word for their type:
Louis asked both Les and Claudia to help with his project.
What is:
Louis asked both Les and Claudia to help with his project. Correlative?
Write out a sentence featuring:
Two articles, one proper adjective, and one adverb.
Wow! So! Creative!
Write your own sentence featuring a verb phrase and at least one linking verb.
Wow how creative!
Write out the sentence and label all types of pronoun:
Edgar gave his brother all of the candy that he, himself, gathered on Halloween night.
What is:
Edgar gave his (poss) brother all (indefinite) of the candy that he (pers), himself (intens), gathered on Halloween night
Write out your own sentence featuring a labeled:
Coordinating conjunction, transitive verb, and singular collective noun.
Wow so creative?