Nouns/Pronouns
What is a proper noun?
Describes a noun or a pronoun.
Extra 300 points if you can name what all this term tells.
What is an adjective?
What kind, which one, how many, whose
Receives the action of an action verb.
What is a direct object?
The type of verb that shows an action.
What is an action verb?
The two parts of a sentence.
It is used in the place of a noun that is a person.
Extra 300 points if you can name all the personal pronouns.
What is a personal pronoun?
I, me, my, mine
You, your, yours
He, she, him, her, it
His, hers, its
We, us, our, ours
They, them, their, theirs
To turn a noun into an adjective that tells whose, you add this.
What is an apostrophe -s (or just an apostrophe)?
What kind of verb is used in the following sentence:
I am writing.
300 points if you can name all the verbs of this type.
Helping verb.
All the verbs from the chant.
The simple subject and all the words that "hang off" it are called this.
What is the complete subject?
A kind of pronoun that demonstrates or points something out.
Extra 200 points if you can name them all.
What is a demonstrative pronoun?
That, those, these, this
It describes verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Identify the direct object of this sentence:
Suzanne baked Eloise a pie.
Pie.
What kind of verb is used in the following sentence?
You are students.
200 bonus if you can name all the verbs of this type.
Linking verb
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
What is the complete predicate?
What is -es?
Circle each adjective and underline each adverb in the following sentence:
The fluffy, pink flamingo flapped its feathers flawlessly.
Circled: fluffy, pink
Underlined: flawlessly
Identify the indirect object of the following sentence:
Janice brought Edgar a pie.
Edgar
What kind of verb is used in the following sentence:
Raptors were carnivores.
Linking verb
A sentence that gives an order or makes a request is called this.
What is a command?
Name 5 of the capitalization rules you have learned so far.
100 point bonus for each additional capitalization rule over 5
Capitalize the word "I"
Capitalize the days of the week, the months, but not the seasons
Capitalize the first, last and important words in titles
Capitalize deities
Capitalize proper names
Capitalize holidays
Capitalize the first word of every sentence
Capitalize the first word in every line of traditional poetry
Capitalize the first word in a direct quotation
To turn a noun into an adjective that tells whose, you add this.
What is an apostrophe -s (or just an apostrophe)?
Circle the direct object of the sentence and underline the indirect object:
I made you candy.
Circle: candy
Underline: you
What kind of verb is used in the following sentence:
She was.
200 bonus if you can name all the verbs of this type.
State-of-being
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
This is the subject in command sentences that are only one word long.
Bonus 200 points for naming the other 3 types of sentences.
What is understood you?
Question, exclamation, and statement.