Verb/Noun
The definition of noun and verb.
Noun: a person, place, or thing.
Verb: an action, state, or occurrence.
Definition of adverb.
What is a word or phrase that modifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb?
Use three adjectives in a sentence.
"The hardworking Jasmine is doing her awesome project with the amazing Lauren in the fun socials class." (4 adjectives!)
Definition of pronoun.
What are words that replace nouns in a sentence? (They prevent words from repeating themselves.)
How many types of apostrophes are there?
What is 2?
An example of a mental verb.
What is believe, fear, want, etc. (Mental verbs are verbs that describe feelings or mental states.)
What type of adverb is "extremely"?
What is a degree adverb?
(Degree adverbs tell us about the intensity or degree of an action, an adjective or another adverb.)
Identify the adjective in the following sentence: "William blankly stares off into space when he's supposed to do his incredibly easy work while Lauren aggressively torments him."
What is "easy"?
PS: William thinks it's perfectly fine!
"Lauren is helplessly addicted to the silly snake game". Change the name to an appropriate pronoun.
"She is helplessly addicted to the silly snake game."
PS: Devin is also addicted.
What are all the types of apostrophes?
What is one is used to replace words and one is used to signify someone's possession?
Definition of "gerunds".
What are verb that act as nouns (ending with "ing")? For example, "Running is tiring." In that sentence, "running" is the gerund.
Identify the adverb in the following sentence: "Lauren really likes explaining complicated adverbs to Ms. Rolufs."
What is "really"?
("really" is an intensifier adverb. In this case, it describes how much Lauren likes doing something.)
Which of these is an example of a quantitative adjective?
A. Long
B. Boring
C. None of the above
D. All of the above
What is D?
(quantitative adjectives describe some of the qualities of a person or thing)
Give two examples of possessive pronouns.
What is "mine" or "yours"?
Give two examples of apostrophes used in a sentence.
What is "Jasmine'll explain to you what apostrophes are"? What is "Jasmine's house is modern"?
Find the noun in this sentence: "Has he met his new boss, Mr. Bossy, yet?"
What is boss?
Definition of manner adverbs.
What is an adverb that describes a way of doing things, for example, cheerfully, abnormally, etc.
What does an adjective describe? Hint: two types of words.
What are nouns and pronouns?
Give an example of an indefinite pronoun.
"Devin totally doesn't know everything about breaking chairs." (wink wink)
In this case, the word "everything" is the indefinite pronoun, because it doesn't tell us specific things.
Change the phrases "we are", "he will", and "she is" using apostrophes.
What is "we're", "he'll", and "she's".
Definition or example of a linking verb.
What are verbs that connects the subject to a word that gives information about the subject. An example of a linking verb: "seem" as in "they seem nice."
Give an example of intensifier adverb.
What is "really" or "literally"?
Name all three kinds of adjectives.
What are descriptive, demonstrative, and quantitative adjectives?
Give an example of a reflexive pronoun.
"William pinched himself to make sure he's awake."
In this case, "himself" is the pronoun, since himself relates to William, who did something to himself.
Can you take out the apostrophe in the sentence "Jasmine's pencil case is nice"? Can you take out the apostrophe in the sentence "Lauren's the one who loves snake games".
You can't take out the apostrophe in the first sentence, since in that case, the apostrophe represents something belongs to Jasmine. You can change the second one to: "Lauren is the one who loves snake games."