Noun
What is a noun?
Noun is a word that refers to a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is the job of a pronoun?
A pronoun takes the place of (substitutes) a noun.
What is the job of an adjective?
An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun.
Identify the adjective(s) in the following sentence:
The giggly children happily skipped to the old building.
The GIGGLY children happily skipped to the OLD building.
What are the two different kinds of nouns? What is the difference between the two?
What is common (general) and proper (specific--capitalized)
State whether the following pronoun is singular/plural and if it is female/male/neutral… them.
plural and neutral
What three questions can you ask to see if a word is an adjective?
How many? What kind? Which one?
In the following sentence identify the adjective/s and the question/s they answer.
The students diligently typed their five-paragraph essay.
The students diligently typed their FIVE-PARAGRAPH essay.
Question- What kind?
Identify the nouns in the following sentence:Rows of wheat waved in the breeze.
ROWS of WHEAT waved in the BREEZE.
Fill in the blank...The coach congratulated the players on _____ victory.
What is THEIR
What does the word modify mean?
What is... modify means change?
Identify the adjective/s in the following sentence and the corresponding noun/s. What question does the adjective/s answer?
The fish seemed happy in the tank.
The FISH(noun) seemed HAPPY(adjective) in the tank.
Question- What kind?
Identify the nouns in the following sentence and identify if it is a person, place, thing, or idea: Ally and Betsy love the fall leaves every season.
ALLY (Person) and BETSY (person) love the fall LEAVES (thing) every SEASON (thing/idea).
State whether the pronoun HERS is...
singular/plural
female/male/neutral
possessive/not possessive
What is female/singular/possessive
How do adjectives modify nouns and pronouns?
What is... it modifies the way we think of nouns and pronouns?
In the following sentence identify the adjective/s and the question/s they answer.
The sleepy teacher accidentally used a green permanent marker on the whiteboard.
What is... SLEEPY - Which one/what kind of teacher?
And GREEN - Which one/what kind of marker?
Find all of the nouns in the following sentence and identify each as common or proper as well as a person, place, thing, or idea.
The San Francisco Bridge rusted after years of neglect.
The San Francisco Bridge (thing/proper) rusted after years (thing or idea/common) of neglect (idea/common).
Name a pronoun that is SINGULAR in number, NEUTRAL in gender, and NOT possessive.
What is it or it or I.
Where do we usually see adjectives in relation to a noun/pronoun?
What is... usually before a noun/pronoun?
In the following sentence identify the adjective/s and the question/s they answer.
Several clumsy students accidentally knocked over the creative Halloween decorations.
What is... SEVERAL - How many students? and
CLUMSY - what kind of students? and
CREATIVE - What kind of decorations? and
HALLOWEEN - What kind/which one decorations?