Nouns and Pronouns
A person place or thing
What is a Noun?
Describes a noun
What is an adjective?
A group of words.
A word that expresses an action.
What is a verb?
Used at the end of an imperative or declarative sentence.
What is a period?
I, me, mine, we, us, ours.
What is a first person pronoun?
What is an adjective?
What are superlative adjectives?
Asks a question and ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
Tweaks the meaning of a verb.
What is an adverb?
Used to separate words, or groups of words in three or more.
What is a comma?
This, that, these, and those.
What is a demonstrative pronoun?
Used to compare two items.
What are comparative adjectives?
The strange boy named Jeff, was falling farther and farther away from reality.
What is further?
Expresses no action and is a form of “to be."
What is a linking verb?
Indicating a pause typically in between two independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
Who, whom, which what
What is an interrogative pronoun?
Bob ate the greasy frozen hot dog.
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What is greasy, and frozen.
Has a subject and a predicate and can stand alone.
What is an independent clause?
The sad boy slowly shuffled in a sad tone.
The sad boy slowly shuffled in a sad tone.
Used to precede a list of items.
What is a colon?
Shows ownership and possession.
What is a possessive pronoun?
Dan ate the these hairy chickens.
What is these, and hairy?
Renames the noun beside it.
What is an appositive?
Used to tell us the way something is done.
What is a manner adverb?
Used to modify a noun that is not actually present in the text.
What is a dangling participle?