parts of speech
What part of speech modifies an adjective, adverb, or verb?
What is an adverb
This is the who or what of the sentence.
What is a subject?
This is the action or state of being in a sentence.
What is the verb?
This is the protagonist.
Who is Helmuth?
What sport did Mrs. Ems play in college?
What is basketbal
These are at least 4 of the state of being verbs.
What are: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been?
This looks like a verb but acts like an adjective and ends in -ing or -ed.
What is a participle?
This looks like a verb but acts like a noun and ends in -ing.
What is a gerund?
This is the complete setting of the italics.
What is present time in prison?
What college did Mrs. Parent go to?
Rutgers
This modifies (tells more about) a noun.
What is an adjective?
This looks like a verb but acts like either an adjective, an adverb, or a noun and begins with the word "to".
What is an infinitive?
The participle in this sentence: Steve hid behind the creeking door.
What is creeking?
This describes what type of character Helmuth is. (think whether or not he changes)
What is a dynamic character?
How many kids do Mrs. Ems and Mrs. Parent have altogether?
What is 7
These are all of the nouns in the sentence:
A bright light shine in through the stained glass window.
What are: light and window?
The infinitive in this sentence: The school board decided to vote on the snow day procedures.
What is "to vote"?
The gerund in this sentence: Winter is usually freezing.
What is freezing?
This is the signpost assigned to this text. "Helmuth wrestles a sudden wave of nausea as he realizes what Hugo did last night. But it's Gerhard who says something when Mutti returns."
What is an Aha Moment?
This is how many yards Saquon Barkley had on Sunday.
This is the correct part of speech of every word in this sentence.
The tall girl walked quickly through the cemetery.
The correctly identified subject, verb, and correctly verbal in this sentence:
Hannah heard the howling dog.
What are Hannah (subject), heard (verb), howling (participle)?
The correctly identified subject, verb, and correctly verbal in this sentence:
The charming boy appreciated spending time with his brother.
What are boy (subject), appreciated (verb), spending (gerund)?
This is the figurative language in this text.
"Helmuth looks at the swastika banners fluttering over the shops. The flags seem to gloat, seem to goose-step triumphantly down the street. By summer's end, the newspaper headlines scream about atrocities that Poles are committing against ethnic Germans."
What is personification?
What are Mrs. Ems' and Mrs. Parent's dog's names?
Who are Drummer, Charlie, and Ranger.