Nouns
What is the definition of a common noun?
(Give an example!)
Definition: person, place, thing (things in general)
Example: boy, park, coffee, dogs
What is a verb?
Action Words
What is a subject of a sentence?
The part of a sentence that tells "who" or "what" a sentence is about!
What is an adjective?
Adjectives are words that describe nouns (how many, what size, shape, color, etc).
Ex: rosy, happy, pretty, soft, sharp, seven, tall
What is the definition of a proper noun?
(Give examples!)
Particular places, people, or things
Example: Sally, Ms. Misty, Prism North America, Gulley Park, Leon's Creamery
What is an example of a verb?
Walk, run, eat, sit, swim, jog, climb, sing, etc.
What is a predicate?
My family watched the sunset.
My lovely, big, sweet, kind...family
bright, colorful, slow, breathtaking, beautiful...sunset
What is the definition of a concrete noun?
A person, place, or thing that can be detected by a persons five senses!
What is a linking verb?
A linking verb is NOT an action verb, but connects a subject and a predicate together.
Ex: is, seems, feels, are, was, were
What is a fragment?
A fragment is a group of words that is not a complete thought and is either missing a subject or a predicate.
What is an article?
An article is: a, an, the.
What is the definition of an abstract noun?
Names of feelings, emotions, movements, events that cannot be detected by a persons five senses!
Example: anger, love, beauty
Use a linking verb in a sentence:
Did they use a linking verb correctly?
What is a simple sentence?
A sentence that has one subject and one predicate.
What are the articles in this sentence?
The dog ran and jumped into the pool!
Name one example of a common, proper, concrete, and abstract nouns!
Let's see if they got them right!
List 3 examples of linking verbs, and 3 examples of regular verbs!
Linking: is, feels, was, were, seems
Regular: run, sit, walk, hop, drive, fly, swim
What is a run-on sentence?
Two or more simple sentences that run together because they are capitalized or punctuated incorrectly!
They go on for too long!
What is the difference between an adjective and an article?
Adjectives describe nouns, articles connect parts of a sentence!