Nouns/Pronouns
A person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
An action or state of being.
What is a verb?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
A word that tells the location, distance, time, or purpose of a noun in relation to another noun in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
A word that joins two words, phrases, or clauses together.
What is a conjunction?
A word that replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence:
Sally jumped over the stream.
What is jumped?
A word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
List 10 prepositions.
What are through, on, in, with, by, next, to, under, at, up, during, beside, etc.?
A conjunction that joins together two independent clauses.
What is a coordinating conjunction or FANBOYS?
Identify ALL of the nouns in the following sentence:
The lawyer argued that his client was innocent, but the judge dismissed it because of a lack of evidence.
What are lawyer, client, judge, and evidence.
Identify the verb phrase in the following sentence:
Cameron and George might have been the ones responsible for the damage that was done to the school.
What is might have been responsible?
Identify all adjectives in the following sentence:
Carrie has a large, green hat that she only wears to fancy events because she doesn't like to be stared at by rude people in public.
What are large, green, fancy, and rude?
Identify the prepositional phrase(s) in the following sentence:
Garrett got to the store by crossing the lake, but he did not have to go through the woods.
What are by crossing the lake and through the woods?
A conjunction that joins an independent clause and a dependent clause.
What is a subordinating conjunction or an AWUBIS?
Identify all of the pronouns in the sentence:
When she heard the news, she celebrated with her family, and they all knew that there would be challenges ahead.
What are she, her, they, all, and that?
Identify the verb(s) and/or verb phrase(s) in the following sentence:
Mary Anne decided she didn't want to go to school because she found it boring, and she didn't like doing work all day.
What are decided, to go, found, and didn't like doing work.
Identify all of the adverbs in the following sentence:
Jim dances swiftly through the very rough terrain since he couldn't waste time trying to carefully maneuver around the obstacles.
What are swiftly, very, and carefully?
Identify all of the prepositional phrases in the following sentence:
The woman in the blue coat ran into the house for her dog after the loud storm.
What are in the blue coat, into the house, for her dog, and after the loud storm?
Identify the conjunctions in the following sentence:
Kathrine and James swam for three hours even though they were only supposed to swim for two, so they were extra tired.
What are even though and so?
List all 5 types of nouns and an example of each.
8th Grade: List all 8 types of pronouns and give an example of each.
What are common (girl), proper (South Dakota), abstract (joy), concrete (dirt), and collective (Congress).
What are personal (me), possessive (ours), indefinite (some), intensive (myself), reflexive (their selves), interrogative (whose), demonstrative (that), and relative (who).
List all 23 helping verbs.
What are am, is, are, was, were, being, been, be, have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must, can, and could.
Write a sentence using both adverbs and adjectives.
What is Luke drove quickly to the very boring family gathering, so he could leave super early?
Write a sentence that has at least 3 prepositional phrases.
What is They had to go into the house by the river?
Write a sentence that uses a coordinating and a subordinating conjunction properly.
What is We brought a pie to the Thanksgiving party because we were asked to, and the party guests complained about the pie.