Nouns
A noun is a ____, _____, or _____.
What is person, place, or thing?
Adjectives often come after this verb.
What is "(to) BE"?
The noun phrase "cold weather" is made up of these two parts of speech.
What are an adjective and a noun?
This preposition is used to tell when something happens.
What is "in"? (in the spring, in May, etc.)
Names of days of the week begin with this.
What is a capital letter?
This noun (measured in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit) means how hot or cold the weather is.
What is temperature?
When adjectives come after "BE," they describe this.
What is the subject (of the sentence)?
We can use this adjective in noun phrases describing a lot of rain or snow.
What is "heavy"?
These two prepositions can be used to tell where a person lives or where a place is.
What are "from" and "in"?
I'm from Vermont. / Vermont is in the U.S.
American, Japanese, and Canadian all begin with capital letters because they are names of these.
What are nationalities?
This plural noun means the four periods during the year, all having different types of weather.
(Pronounce it correctly!)
What is seasons?
An adjective + noun combination is called this.
What is a noun phrase?
This is the noun phrase in the following sentence:
Tokyo's summers are hot and humid.
What is "Tokyo's summers"?
We use this preposition before the low and the high temperature (Winter temperatures are _____ -20° and 5° C.).
What is "between"?
In writing, after one of these at the beginning of a sentence, we need to use a comma.
What is a prepositional phrase?
Men, women, children, and people are the plural forms of this type of countable noun.
What is irregular?
In the box at the top of page 46, these are the two adjectives that do not end in -y.
What are cold and difficult?
This noun phrase completes the following sentence:
Yakutsk is the _____ _____ in the world.
What is "coldest city"?
When we don't know the exact number, we can use either of these two prepositions before a temperature.
(It's _____ 58° F.)
What are "about" and "around"?
(It's about 58° F.) / (It's around 58° F.)
True or False?
Common nouns like names of seasons are capitalized.
(Don't forget to state your answer as a question!)
What is "False"?
This is a type of word that often comes before a noun ("a," "an," or "the").
What is an article? (冠詞)
This adjective is used to describe super cold weather or temperatures, not things like fish or ice cream.
What is freezing?
Unscramble the sentence below to find this noun phrase that comes at the end.
country / season / a / has / that / Cuba / rainy / a / is.
What is "rainy season"?
[Cuba is a country that has a rainy season.]
We use "from"..."to"... to tell this about a season.
What is how long it lasts?
This verb means to use a capital letter at the beginning of a word.
What is (to) capitalize?