Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Ben and Fred ate loads of pizza while watching T.V.
What is the subject of this sentence?
Ben and Fred
This type of writing is used to inform or explain.
Expository
Shows an action, a state of being, links, or helps.
Verb
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge.
Replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
What is a pronoun?
What does PPA stand for?
Possessive Pronoun Adjective
This type of writing tries to convince someone to believe something.
Persuasive
Answers the questions:
How, when, where?
Adverb
What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
Answers the questions:
Which one, what kind, how many, whose?
Adjective
What are the four types of sentences?
Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, Exclamatory
This type of writing re-tells a story.
Narrative
These join words or sentences together.
Conjunctions
What is always in front of you, but can never be seen?
The future
List the 7 coordinating conjunctions.
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What sentence pattern is this?
The baseball player with the blue jersey and white striped pants ran towards first base with all his might.
The baseball player ran.
SN V
P1
This type of writing paints a picture with words.
Descriptive
Used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion.
Interjection
Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets, but no people?
A map
Is the verb in this sentence transitive or intransitive?
Bobby threw the frog back into the pond.
What sentence pattern is this?
Peppa and George rode their bicycles to Mrs. Rabbit's shop in the middle of town.
Peppa and George rode bicycles.
SN V-t
DO
P2
What do you do when you start a new paragraph in an essay?
Indent
This connects a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence.
Preposition
David's parents have three sons, Snap, Crackle, and ........
David