Parts of Speech
An action word or state of being (to be).
What is a verb?
Drunk
What is a past participle?
?
What is a question mark?
cook + ed = cooked
('ed' sounds like.)
What is 't'?
'Dancing' is fun.
('Dancing' is an example of what part of speech?)
What is a gerund?
(A gerund is a verb ending with 'ing'.)
Words that introduce nouns
What are articles? (A, An, or The)
Eat
What is the Simple Present?
A noun, pronoun, or gerund that is responsible for the action in a sentence or clause
What is a subject?
Manage + ed = Managed
('ed' sounds like )...
What is 'd'?
Our class ends on August 2nd. What part of speech is 'on'?
What is a preposition?
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
I've lived in Virginia since 2021.
(What tense is this?)
What is the present perfect?
,
What is a comma?
Swum
What is the past participle of 'swim'?
'Before dinner, we went for a walk.'
'Before dinner' is a conjunction, sentence, clause, phrase, or predicate.'
What is a phrase?
Words that show relationships to nouns, pronouns, places, and things
What is a preposition?
I had eaten dinner when you called me.
What is the past perfect?
(Two things happened in the past, one happened first.)
The person or thing that receives the action in a sentence or clause.
Example: William kicked the soccer ball.
What is an object?
Type of 'phrase': quickly ran to the car
What is an adverb phrase?
Stop!
Wait!
Look!
What is an exclamation?
Gives more information about a verb, adjective, or adverb
What is an adverb?
By the time I you get home, the kids will have been sleeping for three hours.
What is the future perfect tense.
(Two things happen in the future. One happens before the other.)
A group of words with a subject and a verb that make sense or are a complete thought or action
What is an Independent Clause?
Type of phrase: 'After our party is over'
What is an adverb phrase?
We would be rich if we won the lottery.
What type of sentence is this?
What is a conditional sentence?