All things noun
What is a 'noun'?
Person place or thing
The noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb is...
a direct object.
There are three persons of pronouns.
Pick one and give an example.
First: I
Second: You
Third: He
"She walks to the mall" is the singular form. How would you make this plural?
They walk to the mall.
Complete the pattern:
good, better, ____
best
Filly, mare, woman. etc.
The noun that identifies the person for whom or to whom something is done is...
an indirect object.
Finish the pattern:
I, me, my
You, you, __
your
Explain 'subject verb agreement'
Subject and verb match each other.
Adverbs and Adjectives both have three forms, what are they?
Positive, Comparative, Superlative
English has three kinds of nouns that have to do with number, what are they?
Singular, Plural and noncount/mass.
Identify the direct and indirect object in the following sentence.
I drank a gallon of sprite for the competition.
direct: gallon of sprite
indirect: competition
My is an example of a ___ pronoun
Possessive
Verbs have three basic tenses, what are they?
Past, present future.
90% of adverbs share a quality, what is it?
They end in 'ly'
What case is the following noun in?
Our president's border policy is...
Possessive.
A verb that is always accompanied by an object is
a transitive verb
Give an example of a objective pronoun
him.
She will have been sleeping.
Identify what kind of words the italicized words are.
Very: degree adverb
Quickly: manner adverb
Slow: predicate adjective
Nouns in English have two other cases: Nominative and Objective. Explain what that means.
Nominative noun is the subject of a sentence, objective noun is the object of a sentence
Give an example of a transitive/intransitive verb
Raise/Rise
Eat. Sleep.
Give me an indefinite, nominative pronoun.
they
Make a sentence using a gerund
Sleeping is priceless.
Make a sentence that uses an adverb and an adjective.
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