Nouns, Verbs, & Pronouns
An example of an abstract noun
What is (answers vary)?
Describes a verb or adjective.
What is an adverb?
The interjection in the sentence: "Wow! Look at the Christmas lights on their roof!"
What is "Wow!"?
The three parts of a sentence.
What are subject, predicate, and complete thought?
When two sentences are put together without the proper punctuation or connecting words.
What is a run-on sentence?
A pronoun to take the place of: "Bert and Ernie"
What is "they"?
An adjective.
What is describes a noun or pronoun?
The conjunction in the sentence: "They were late to the Christmas program, so they could not find a seat."
What is "so"?
The subject of the sentence: "Nathan gave his mom a gift."
What is "Nathan"?
To fix the run-on sentence: "It snowed all afternoon we had to shovel our sidewalk."
What is (methods vary) between "afternoon" and "we"?
The proper nouns in the sentence: "Mary and Joseph traveled to Bethlehem where they stayed in a stable."
What are Mary, Joseph, and Bethlehem?
An adjective and adverb to fill in the blanks of the sentence: "The ___ snow fell ___ on the quiet town."
What is (answers vary)?
The 6 coordinating conjunctions.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
The predicate of the sentence: "I slipped and fell on the ice at recess."
What is "slipped and fell"?
To fix the sentence: "They visited their grandparents they brought cookies and presents."
What is (methods vary) between "grandparents" and "they"?
The verb in the sentence: "The colorful Christmas lights on the house at the end of the block are my favorite."
What is "are"?
The adverb(s) in the sentence: "They dressed warmly and played happily in the snow."
What are "warmly" and "happily"?
The preposition(s) in the sentence: "We played in the snow all afternoon."
What is "in"?
The simple predicate of the sentence "Frosty the Snowman was a jolly, happy soul."
What is "was"?
To fix the run-on sentence: "I wrapped one gift my mom wrapped the rest of the gifts for the family and put them under the tree."
What is (methods vary) between "gift" and "my"?
The pronoun(s) in the sentence: "She gave me a gift, and I loved it!"
What are "she" "me" "I" "it"?
What are glorious, humble, tired, good?
The preposition(s) in the sentence: "We hung our stockings on the fireplace and put the presents under the tree."
What are "on" and "under"?
The simple subject of the sentence: "A jolly, old man in a red, fur coat brought us presents."
What is "man"?
The three ways to fix a run-on sentence.
What is with a period and capital letter, a semi-colon, and a comma and coordinating conjunction?