Parts of a speech
a person, place or thing
noun
used in place of a noun (I, he, she, we, them)
pronoun
who or what the sentence is about
subject
A statement ends with a
period
A word that describes a verb
adverb
a word that shows action
verb
two or more words with the same pronunciation, but have different spelling and meanings (there/their, prince/prints)
homophones
tells us what the subject is or what they did
predicate
What punctuation is needed- Do we have homework today
question mark ?
Word part added at the beginning of a word; changes the meaning (pre-, over-, un-)
prefix
nouns that need to be capitalized
proper nouns
Two words that mean the same thing (happy/glad, big/huge)
synonyms
to have one
singular
This punctuation shows emotion, urgency or excitment
exclamation point !
Word part added at the end of a word; changes the meaning (-er, -ness, -ful)
everyday nouns
common noun
Two words that mean the opposite (big/small, happy/sad)
antonyms
to have more than one
plural
These are used to show someone is talking
quotation marks
Tells the position of the action (above, below, in, around, across)
preposition
a describing word
adjective
When someone is talking and quotations are used that is called
dialogue
a word that connects two complete sentences (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
conjunction
two complete sentences put together with a comma and conjunction
compound sentence
Sentence with two subjects or two predicates with no comma or conjunction
run-on