Parts of Speech
What is the part of speech of the underlined words?
Ava interviewed the celebrity but found that she spoke rudely to her fans.
Ava: Concrete Noun
Spoke: Verb
What is the function of the underlined words?
The teacher passed out the test to the students.
Teacher: Subject
Passed: Predicate
Adj - able to withstand or recover from difficult conditions
Resilient
What does the mockingbird symbolize?
Innocence
What is the part of speech of the underlined words?
Ms. Smith carefully watered her flowers making sure not to drown them.
Flowers- concrete noun
Carefully- adverb
Watered- verb
What is the function of the underlined words?
Aboard the ship were immigrant families awaiting a new life.
Were: linking verb
Adj - outstandingly bad; shocking
Egregious
How does Scout cause the mob in front of the county jail to leave?
By using empathy
What is the part of speech of the underlined words?
The new perfume sold out in almost an hour due to its popularity.
New- adjective
Popularity- abstract noun
What is the function of the underlined words?
Both soccer players experienced the consequences of being impatient, after their coach benched them.
Experienced: transitive verb
Consequences: direct object
Impatient: O.P.P
Conjecture
Who and what does the mad dog symbolize?
Bob Ewell pursuing revenge
What word(s) are a preposition?
Tomorrow my team will be going into the cheerleading state championship.
Into
What is the function of the underlined words?
The baby cried because it was tired.
Baby: subject
Cried: predicate
Adj - conducive towards success; favorable
Auspicious
How do Heck Tate and Atticus compare? (one similarity one difference)
Atticus is farsighted and always thinks for the future
Heck Tate is nearsighted and thinks about the present
They are both stubborn
What word(s) are a preposition?
Throughout the day, Lesley became more and more excited to go visit her best friend who lived in New York and she had not seen in a year.
Throughout
In
What is the function of the underlined words?
Tom gave his sister a laptop.
Gave- transitive verb
His Sister- indirect object
Laptop- direct object
Adj - Relating or belonging separately to the individual people or things
Respective
What book of Jem's did Atticus read and what did it symbolize?
The Gray Ghost
It symbolizes empathy because Atticus could see what life was like in Jem's eyes.