Parts Of Speech
What is a noun?
Person, place, or thing. (ex. teacher, table, theatre).
What is a subject in a sentence?
The noun that the sentence is talking about.
What is the past tense form of "walk?"
Walked.
Who was the first U.S. president?
George Washington.
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun. (ex. tall, red, mean).
What is the predicate in a sentence?
What it is that the sentence is saying about the subject. What the subject is doing.
What do you add to a word to indicate that it is in the past tense?
Seven.
What is an adverb?
A word that describes a verb. (ex. quickly, wildly, lately).
Identify the subject of the following sentence.
The girls all met up at the movies after school.
"The girls."
What do you add to a word to indicate that it is in the continuous tense?
An -ing suffix.
What are Mr. Shehata's top two expectations in the classroom?
1. Have Respect.
2. Come to Learn.
What part of speech do the following words belong to?
And, Or, But, Then.
Conjunctions.
Identify the predicate in the following sentence.
My friend hangs out around the local park.
"hangs out around the local park."
What is the present tense form of the verb "to be?"
Am.
Sarah's mom has three kids, the first two are named Nickle and Dime. What is the name of the third kid?
Sarah.
Identify the parts of speech of each word in the following sentence.
I quickly placed my pie in the oven.
I - Pronoun
Quickly -Adverb
Placed- Verb
My - Pronoun
Pie - Noun
In - Preposition
Oven - Noun
What is added between two subjects in order to form a compound subject?
A conjunction such as "and."
What do we call a verb that does NOT use the -ed suffix to form its past tense? (ex. ran, fought, bought)
Irregular verbs
How many years ago was the first story ever written down?
About 4000 years ago. (2100 BCE)