Nouns/
Pronouns
Pronouns
What is a noun?
Names a person, place, thing, activity or idea.
What is a verb?
A verb is a word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb.
What is the difference between adverbs and adjectives?
Adverbs modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb, but adjectives modifies a noun or pronoun.
What are the coordinating conjunctions?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.
Define prepositions and interjections.
A preposition relates a noun or pronoun to another word.
An interjection is a word or phrased used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion.
What are the noun uses?
Subject noun, possessive noun adjective, indirect object, direct object, object of the preposition, predicate nominative, object compliment noun, noun of direct address, appositive.
What are the four verb attributes?
Number, person, voice, and mood.
What questions does an adverb answer?
4 questions can be counted as correct, but 8 are on your adverb chart. BONUS points if you can get 6-8 of them.
How, when, where, why, how often, how much, to what extent, under what condition?
What is the difference between clauses and phrases?
Clauses have both a subject and a verb, phrases do not.
List the most common prepositions.
About, above, across, after....
What are the relative pronouns?
Who, whom, whose, which, what, whatever, whoever, whomever, that.
Which type of verb is paired with a Predicate Nominative or Predicate Adjective?
Linking Verb
What questions do adjective answer?
What kind, how many, which, whose?
What is used to connect an independent clause and a dependent clause?
Subordinating conjunctions.
Are prepositions more likely to be found in a phrase or a clause?
Phrase. They often create their own prepositional phrases.
Myself, yourself, herself, himself, are what type of pronouns?
Reflexive pronouns
What are two examples of sentences that use helping verbs?
Various great answers.
True or False:
Adverbs and Adjectives can sometimes have more than one word (making it a phrase).
TRUE. Phrases, such as prepositional phrases, work as a group to be one part of speech. They can become adverbial or adjectival phrases. Clauses can also do this.
Simple- one independent clause.
Compound- two or more independent clauses.
Complex- An independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
Compound-Complex- more than one independent clause, and and least one dependent clause.
What MUST a preposition have with it to be a preposition?
BONUS: If it does not have this thing, it is not a preposition, it is a(n) _________?
An object of the preposition.
Without it is an adverb.
Which sentence is using a gerund?
A) It is always fun to go running on the beach.
B) Smashing through the window, the baseball landed on the carpet.
C) Since Texas summers are hot, swimming is the best summer activity.
C) Since Texas summers are hot, swimming is the best summer activity.
What are the principal parts of verbs?
Infinitive, present, past, present participle, past participle.
Correctly identify all the adverbs and adjectives in these sentences. 6 total.
We quickly ran home yesterday.
The tall boy at the park was nice.
Quickly-how, home-where, yesterday-when
Tall-what, at he park-which, nice-predicate adjective and what kind
When do you need to use a comma with clauses and conjunctions?
Always use a comma with coordinating conjunctions.
If a dependent clause is at the beginning of a sentence, or in the middle of another clause, use a comma.
Create a sentence using an interjection and a compound preposition.
Optional, start with:
The teacher said we have a test today.
Various correct answers.