Nouns
These are the four types of nouns.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
These are the three types of verbs.
What are action verbs, state of being verbs, and helping verbs?
This is the type of word that pronouns can replace in a sentence.
What is a noun?
This is the type of word that an adjective describes.
What is a noun?
These are the types of words that an adverb describes.
What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?
"Northumberland Middle School" is this type of noun.
True or False: a helping verb can be used on its own without any other verbs paired with it.
FALSE! A helping verb must always have at least one other verb paired with it.
Wrong: Ben will to the store.
Right: Ben will go to the store.
This is the name for a noun that the pronoun is replacing or connected to.
What is an antecedent?
True or False: An adjective must always be right before the noun it's describing.
FALSE
True or False: all adverbs end in "ly".
FALSE
This type of noun should always be capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
Identify the verbs in the following sentence, and say what type each verb is.
Angelina will be running in the competition tomorrow.
Will = helping verb
Be = helping verb
Running = action verb
Identify the pronoun and antecedent in this sentence.
Meghan loved to draw, so she entered an art contest.
PRONOUN: she
ANTECEDENT: Meghan
Identify the adjectives in the following sentence.
The old tired green turtle waddled to the deep pond.
Old, tired, green, deep
Identify the adverb in the following sentence.
Wendy walked away slowly.
Slowly
Identify all the nouns in the following sentence.
"Adam remembered to put a period at the end of his sentence."
Adam
period
sentence
The verb "is" is this type of verb.
What is a state of being verb?
"You", "yourself", and "yours" are all in this category of pronouns.
What are second person pronouns?
Identify the adjective or adjectives in the following sentence.
Your dog is very silly!
Silly
Jason will be very happy to see you.
Happy is an adjective.
These are two of the ways in the English language that we can make a singular noun into a plural noun.
Possible answers include:
- Adding "s"
- Adding "es"
- Changing the "f" at the end of a word to a "v" and adding "es"
- Changing the "y" at the end of a word to an "i" and adding "es"
What is the helping verb "will"?
Identify the pronoun and antecedents in the following sentence.
Zelda and I are going to our grandmother's house.
ANTECEDENTS: Zelda, I
Note: "I" is also a pronoun, but its antecedent is almost always invisible, so we rarely need to find its antecedent.
If an adjective that describes the subject of the sentence comes after the verb, this is the type of verb that will be used in the sentence.
What is a state of being verb?
Change the following sentence so that it includes an adverb.
Carrie tiptoed in a careful way.
Carrie tiptoed carefully.
OR
Carrie carefully tiptoed.