Grammar
What is a noun?
A person, place or thing
The who or the what
What is the place in a story called?
The setting
What does the word evening mean?
The time in between bedtime and 6pm
In the sentence below name the subject and the predicate:
Are you going to the dance on friday night?
Subject: You
Predicate: going to the dance
What is an adjective?
A word that describes nouns
What is the predicate of a sentence?
Tells what the subject is or is doing
What are the people in stories called?
characters
What does the word peak mean?
The pointed top of a mountain
Name the five W's and How in the sentence below:
George walked to his friends house on Tuesday night because they needed to study for their upcoming exam by using flashcards to quiz each other.
Who: George
What: walked
Where: his friends house
When: Tuesday night
Why: to study
How: using flashcards to quiz each other
Words that are actions or states of being
What are the five W's and the other word that is involved in our sentence structure?
Who, what, when, where, why, how
If the main character is trying to save the princess and there is a dragon. What would the dragon be considered in the story?
The problem
What does the word leisure mean?
free time
What does the word duration mean?
The length of time that something goes on
In the sentence:
Stacy is jogging in the morning before she goes into work.
What is the verb?
jogging
In the sentence:
The teacher teaches a lesson about how earthquakes happen to her students.
What is the subject and what is the predicate?
Subject: the teacher
Predicate: teaches a lesson
When a problem is solved in a story, that is called the....?
The solution
What does the word Boycott mean?
To refuse to buy, use, or participate as an act of protest
Name the problem and solution of the sentence below:
Emily waited all week to drive home to see her parents but when she got in the car, it wasn't starting. She decided to call a company to come jump start her car so it would work again.
Problem: her car wasn't starting
Solution: call a company to jump start her car
In the sentence:
Mary bakes a big, vanilla, sprinkle cake for her sister's birthday.
What are the adjectives?
big, vanilla and sprinkle
Explain the five W's and How in the sentence below:
The mom cooks dinner in the kitchen in the evening because she needs to give her kids dinner using what they have left in the fridge.
Who: the mom
What: cooks dinner
Where: in the kitchen
When: in the evening
Why: she needs to give her kids dinner
How: using what is left in the fridge
What is the beginning, middle and end of the story called?
The plot/events
Fill in the blank:
The student did not get any sleep last night and began to ________________off in class.
doze
What are the nouns, adjectives and verbs in the sentence below:
The big,brown dog was running across the wide,green grass field to catch the yellow tennis ball.
Nouns: Dog, park, tennis ball
Verbs: running and catch
Adjectives: big, brown, wide, green, yellow