Nouns
What are the nouns in this sentence and are they concrete or abstract?
Many animals live in the coral reef.
animals and coral reef and they are concrete
What is the verb in this sentence?
The diver swam to the bottom of the ocean.
swam
What are the two adjectives:
I saw huge humpback whales from the slippery deck of my boat.
huge, slippery
Which word shows the most speed?
run, jog, sprint
What does the prefix pre- mean?
before
Which words are pronouns:
You might think whales are fish, but they are really mammals.
you, they
Is the verb in the past, present, or future tense?
The diver swam to the bottom of the ocean.
past
What is the adverb in the sentence?
Fish hide quietly in the coral reefs.
quietly
Which word shows the most about of tiredness?
sleepy, drowsy, exhausted
exhausted
What does the prefix re- mean?
again
What are the proper nouns in this sentence?
Many whales have been found in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Maine.
Atlantic Ocean, Maine
What is the verb in this sentence and what is the tense?
The whales will eat krill all day long.
will eat: future tense
Complete the sentence with two adjectives:
Eels have _________ bodies that can be long and __________.
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Which word shows the most amount of anger?
mad, furious, angry
furious
What does the prefix un- mean and give an example of a word with this prefix.
not
examples may vary...
Sort these nouns into concrete and abstract:
whales, dedication, water, certainty, diver, thought
concrete: whales, water, diver
abstract: dedication, certainty, thought
Sort these verbs in the past, present, and future tenses:
swims, swam, eat, will eat, wrote, slept, will leave
past: swam, wrote, slept
present: swims, eat
future: will eat, will leave
Complete the sentence with two adverbs:
_______, some jellyfish were floating _______ near the surface of the ocean water.
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Put these words in order from the least shade of meaning to the greatest:
overjoyed, happy, excited
happy, excited, overjoyed
What does the prefix dis- mean? Give an example of a word with this prefix.
not
answers may vary....
Find and identify all of the nouns in this sentence:
I felt happiness as I watched the whale swim with her baby in the Atlantic Ocean.
pronouns: I, her
abstract: happiness
concrete: whale, baby
proper: Atlantic Ocean
Complete this sentence with the correct tense:
Yesterday, the whale (swim) _____ near the coast as it (try) _______ to (leap) ________ in the air.
swam, tried, leap
Identify if the underlined words are adjectives or adverbs.
The orange fish hid beneath the colorful coral as the hungry shark slowly swam by.
adjectives: orange, colorful, hungry
adverbs: beneath, slowly
Put these words in order from the least shade of meaning to the greatest:
gloomy, sad, upset, miserable
gloomy, sad, upset, miserable
Give one example for each of these four prefixes and say what the words mean:
pre- un-
re- dis-
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