Nouns/Pronouns
What are nouns?
Naming words for people, places, things, ideas, or emotions
Describe a linking verb.
A verb that connects the word(s) before the verb and the word(s) after
What are the two verb voices?
Active and passive
What do adjectives describe?
Nouns, pronouns, or other adjectives
How do adverbs usually end?
-ly
What is a good way to check if a word is a noun?
Put the words a, an, the, or my before it
What is the progressive tense of a verb?
The tense that describes an ongoing action
Direct objects are always ___ or ____.
Nouns, pronouns
Identify 2 adjectives in this sentence: “The tall tree in the yard has fallen”
The, tall, the
What do adverbs describe?
Verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
What are abstract nouns?
Nouns that represent things we cannot sense like ideas and emotions
Describe the difference between past progressive, present progressive, and future progressive
Past progressive is an ongoing action that happened in the past
Present progressive is an ongoing action that is happening in the present
Future progressive is an ongoing action that will happen.
Describe the difference between active and passive voice.
In active voice, the subject does the action, while in passive voice, the subject receives the action
Identify 3 adjectives in the following sentence: “We had a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner”
A, fabulous, Thanksgiving
Name the adverb in this sentence: “We went up the stairs quietly.”
quietly
What is the antecedent for the pronoun who in the following sentence: “Bob loves his younger brother, who worships him”?
Bob
What is the perfect tense of a verb?
The tense that describes an action that is completed at the time of speaking or specified time in the past
What is a good way to check if a sentence is in passive voice?
If the phrase “by zombies” can be added to the sentence with it still making sense, it is in passive voice.
What is one of the four demonstratives?
This, that, these, or those
Name 2 adverbs that do not end in -ly.
too, now, then, soon, very, only, often, and not
Name three of the six kinds of pronouns
Personal, Demonstrative, Interrogative, Relative, Reflexive, Indefinite
How is the perfect tense often used?
To focus on the result of the action rather than the action itself
What is the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?
Only transitive verbs have a direct object
What are articles?
The adjectives a, an, and the
Identify the adverbs in the following sentence: “I do not come here often”
not, often