Parts of Speech
A person, place or thing; ex. house, school, paper
What is a noun?
words that are made by putting two words together to make a new shorter word like he's, I'm, we're
What are contractions?
Plural of child
What is children?
Past tense of run
What is ran?
when you put pre- in front of a word, it means this
What is "before"
Words that describe nouns like tall, pretty, old
What are adjectives?
words that take the place of nouns and show ownership like my, our, his, her
What are possessive pronouns?
Plural of woman
What is women?
Past tense of eat
What is ate?
when you put re- in front of a word, it means this
What is "again"?
Action words like run, talk, dance
What are verbs?
Words that take the place of nouns and show ownership by more than one person
What are possessive plural pronouns?
plural of mouse
What is mice?
Past tense of visit
What is visited?
words that have opposite meanings
What are antonyms?
words that describe verbs like quickly, slowly, happily
What are adverbs?
when a word starts with a vowel, like umbrella
When do we use AN instead of A
plural of loaf, like loaf of bread
What is loaves?
past tense of sleep
What is slept?
the "bad guy" or villian in a book, movie, tv show
what what is the antagonist?
words that take place of nouns like he, she, or it
What are pronouns?
two words that have similar meanings
What are synonyms?
plural of sheep
What is sheep?
past tense of cut, like I cut the apple in half
What is cut?
the main character or "hero" of a book, movie, tv show
What is the protagonist?