What part of speech describes a noun or a pronoun?
An adjective
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What part of speech tells how, when, where or to what extent?
An adverb
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What is a verb?
A verb describes an action or state of being
100
A ________ takes the place of a noun, or it may replace a person's name
Pronoun
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What is a preposition?
A preposition relates nouns or pronouns in terms of space or time. Answers questions "where" and "when"
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What is an interjection? How do you know it is an interjection?
Interjections show excitement or emotion. They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.
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What is a collective noun? What is an example?
A noun that names a group of individual people or things. Ex: Class, team
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What is a conjunction?
A conjunction connects words or groups of words
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What is the most common linking verb?
Forms of "be"
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How can you tell an adjective from an adverb?
Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns; adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs
300
Create an example sentence using TWO prepositional phrases
The girls walked between the bushes, near the river
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What are helping verbs?
Helping verbs are placed before other verbs to form verb phrases
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Create an example sentence using 3 adjectives
The house was tall, yellow and dirty
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What is the verb in the following sentence? Is it transitive or intransitive? If transitive, what is the object? **The Nipigon River flows into Lake Superior from the north.
Verb: flows, intransitive
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What is a transitive verb?
A transitive verb is if the receiver of the action (object) is named in the sentence
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What are the four demonstrative adjectives?
This, that, these, or those
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What is an intransitive verb?
A verb is intransitive if no receiver of the verb (object) is named
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What is the verb in the following sentence? Is it transitive or intransitive? If transitive, what is the object? **The judge sentences the man to five years in prison.
Verb: sentences. Object: man
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What is the adverb in the following sentence? What question does it answer? (When? Where? In what way? To what extent?) **Ground water moves slowly through the soil and accumulates near the surface.
Adverb: slowly, in what way
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Find the adverb and adjective: The Native American population declined quickly after European explorers arrived.
Adverb: quickly ... Adjective: European
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How can you distinguish an action verb from a linking verb?
Substitute 'am,' 'is,' or 'are' for the verb; if it still makes sense, then it is a linking verb.
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What is an antecedent?
An antecedent is the noun for which a pronoun stands in for
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What is a linking verb?
A verb that connects a subject with a word that describes or identifies it.