Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
What connects the subject to a predicate adjective or a predicate nominative.
What is a linking verb?
The possessive form of the following (spelled out):
The backyard belonging to our friends.
What is friends' backyard?
We ate Belgian waffles on our European adventure.
What are Belgian and European?
What an adverb can describe.
What is a verb, an adjective, or an adverb?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
"to" + a verb
What is an infinitive?
The predicate nominative of the following sentence:
George Washington was the first president of our country.
What is president?
The role of the word smudged in the following sentence:
The ink is smudged across the paper.
What is a predicate adjective?
What are "when?" "where?" "how?" and "to what extent?"?
A word that expresses action or makes a statement.
What is a verb?
A verb form that tells us what already happened.
What is the past tense?
The plural form of the word information.
What is information?
Another name for a noun determiner.
What is a limiting adjective?
The two words we learned that are the same in the adjective and adverb form.
What are fast and hard?
A word that can describe both adjectives and verbs.
What is an adverb?
A verb that can take a direct object.
What is a transitive verb?
The plural form of the word pulley (spelled it out).
What is pulleys?
All of the adjectives in the following sentence:
Many excellent cooks use that old cookbook for special recipes.
What are many, excellent, that, old, and special?
The adverb form of the adjective tired.
What is tiredly?
The 8 parts of speech.
What are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, interjections, conjunctions, and prepositions?
The role of the word me in the following sentence.
My grandma baked me a birthday cake.
What is an indirect object?
All 6 kinds of noun determiners.
What are Articles, Numbers, Demonstratives, Possessive pronouns, Indefinites, and Possessive nouns?
The degree of the italicized adjective in the following sentence:
Your room is more organized than mine.
What is comparative?
Five adverbs that tell to what extent.
What are so, somewhat, quite, too, rather, very, not, extremely, completely, totally, partially, etc...?