parts of speech
Find the noun
Where is the cat?
Cat
Name 1 uses of a Semicolon
Connects two related complete sentences
Separates long items in a list
Find the noun phrases
The car zoom off.
The Car
find the subject
He fell down the stairs
He
Find the pronoun
He had to go to the school
He
find the verb
He quietly escaped the jail.
escaped
Name 2 use of a parentheses
Give a side thought or funny comment
Let us hear a writer’s voice
Gives a fact in the middle of a sentence
Find the verb phrase
He zoomed off in his car.
Find the object
Tom and Sanny flew on a plane to Ohio.
PLANE
Find the Interjection
"Hey! You got coke all over me!" Tom said.
Hey!
Find the Adverb
He quietly escaped the jail.
quietly
Name 3 uses of the colon
Introduces a list
Introduces a quote
Prepares the reader for an example
Separates main ideas and examples
What type of clause is this.
He ran to take the potato unless.
Denpendent
find the predicate
He fell down the stairs and broke his thumb.
fell down the stairs, broke his thumb.
Daily Double
name 2 of the uses of the hyphen
Connects existing words to create new, more specific, words
Add humor through the creation of new words
Separate a multiple syllable word in a page break
Find the Perposition
That cat flew above the town hall and into the mayor's car.
above
Name 4 uses of a Dash
Builds suspense
Adds an additional detail to what came right before (goes deeper)
Adds an additional fact
Adds extra thoughts
Creates an interruption in a thought or statement
Makes an idea more specific
What should go on the depent clause
D: unless Tom was strong enough to punch to potato.
A:Tom was weak because he eat no potato's
B: Tom could't beat the potato
B
find the subject and object
"More rice please" Tom said as he was handed the rice.
S:tom
O:rice
Find that Conjunction
That boy eat 17 whole pizza because he wanted to miss school
because
Find the adjective
That man is very intelligent he has a IQ of 275.
Intelligent.
Name 6 uses of the coma
Separate items in a list
Join two complete thoughts with a conjunction (and, but, or)
Follows a command before a name (Stop, Sarah)
Sits between a greeting and a name (Hello, Joe!)
Surround definitions (appositives)
Slow down the pace of reading
Separate opener phrases and closer phrases from the rest of the text
Separate multiple adjectives in a row
Daily double
List all of the phrases in the sentence
The bird flew off the mans shoulder and over the tree.
3 noun phrases
1 verb phrases
1 preposition phrases
Identfiy the Subject object and predicate
He walk in and out of the building.
He is the subject
Walk in and out is predicate
building is the object
Name 4 uses of a Ellipses
Builds suspense
Builds up to important details
Slows down the pace of the story
Creates curiosity and a desire to read on
Shows a character being interrupted mid-thought
Shows time passing