Nouns,
Pronouns,
& Subjects
Pronouns,
& Subjects
What is a noun?
A naming word
or a person, place, thing, idea
What is a predicate?
The predicate is the verb phrase that tells what the subject is, has, or does.
What does a conjunction do?
It joins things things together to make compound constructions.
What words do adjectives modify?
nouns
Every sentence must have what four things?
A capital letter, a noun, a verb, and a punctuation mark.
What is the part of the sentence that has a noun and tells us what the sentence is about?
The subject
What is the verb phrase in this sentence:
He has been sitting there all day.
has been sitting
A compound sentence
Can a noun modify another noun?
yes
What do we call a group of words that work together as one unit in a sentence?
A phrase
What are two functions of a noun and pronoun?
subject and direct object
What is a helping verb?
A verb that is used with the action verb and changes the time of verb's action.
I am eating.
He has been hiking.
She will be working.
The acronym FANBOYS helps us remember the conjunctions. What are they?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
Six tall boys eat yummy picnic food.
six, tall, yummy, picnic
What is a declarative and interrogative sentence?
An interrogative sentence asks a question.
What is a proper noun? Give an example.
The name for a specific noun and must have a capital letter.
Example: Nevada is the specific name for a state. State is a common noun.
How can we test to see if a word is a verb?
The verb test:
Put the word in present and past tense.
Everyday he ________
Yesterday he ________
When we have a series of nouns and verbs what can we use instead of a conjunction?
A comma
Bob, Pete, and Dad went to the store.
What is a modifier?
A word that refines the meaning of another word. It can tell us:
What kind? Which one? How many? Whose?
What are the functions for the six parts of speech we've learned so far?
subject, connector, predicate, direct object, helper, modifier, pointer
What do we call the noun that the pronoun substitutes?
antecedent --> ante + cede + ent
ante- "before"
cede- "to go, yield"
How do helping verbs make an interrogative sentence?
The helping verb is used at the beginning of a sentence to make an interrogative sentence.
What are the two ways we can use punctuation marks to make a compound sentence?
We can use a comma with a conjunction or a semicolon by itself.
What are the modifiers in this sentence?
One big box fell off the old car, and Dad saw wood in it.
one, big, old
You have an sentence that has two nouns as a compound subject and an action verb as a simple predicate. Each of the nouns has one adjective modifier. What are the blocks in order?
purple, blue, green, purple, blue, red