Parts of Speech
Name the nouns: "Playing soccer is so much fun!"
What are: "playing" and "soccer"?
I gave him and her a present.
Identify all parts of the sentence.
I - sub
gave - AVP
him and her - IO
a present - DO
migr like in immigrant
what is wander?
Define! He described in gratuitous detail every piece of cereal he ate for breakfast.
What is "uncalled for"?
MAYBE TRIPLE!!
List 3 different things you can do while annotating an article.
What are: underlining/highlighting main ideas, writing questions, circling unfamiliar words, or restating the main ideas in your own words?
This is the part of speech that connects things like: words in a list, multiple clauses, or other groups of words
What is a conjunction?
What is the DO question?
What is being "verbed"?
curr as in current and concur
what is run?
efine! Some people have strange experiences which transcend the use of language.
What is "goes beyond the limits of" (or something similar)?
This type of sentence tells the main "idea" or point of your essay: what you are trying to claim or prove.
What is a thesis?
Identify the verbs, nouns, and pronouns only:
While running from a mad cow, I tripped and fell into a deep well, where I met a talking duck; he was very energetic.
Verbs: tripped, fell, met, was
Nouns: cow, well, duck
Pronouns: I (twice), he
Every complete sentence should have these two parts of a sentence:
What are the subject and predicate (AVP or LVP)?
trans as in transport, transfer, transcend
what is across?
Define! The disruption of class by a squawking bird in the rafters simply made the students laugh.
What is "disturbing interruption"?
What body paragraphs start with
What is a topic sentence?
Identify adjectives and adverbs only:
While running from a mad cow, I clumsily tripped and fell into a deep well, where I met a talking duck; he was very energetic.
Adjectives: running, mad, deep, talking, energetic
Adverbs: clumsily, very