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Adjectives and Articles; Comparative and Superlative
Adverbs; Comparative and Superlative
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Conjunctions
Vocabulary
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What are the three kinds of questions an adjective can answer? What does the adjective in this sentence answer? There are twelve cows.
What kind? How many? Which one? There are twelve cows= How many
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What are the three question and adverb can answer?
How? The dog runs quickly. When? I sometimes play with dolls. Where? I looked outside.
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List ten common prepositions.
about, along, around, at, by, for, on, with, from, under, through...
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What are the three most common conjunctions?
and, but and or
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What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun (person, place, or thing).
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What are the special adjectives? and what are they called?
a, an, the and they are articles.
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If an adverb tells how something is done, how does it end?
it usually ends in -ly (happily, surprisingly...)
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What four questions can a prepostional phrase answer?
where? ... over the mountain When? ... at midnight tonight how? ... by a friend helping Which one?... with these
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When do you use the conjunction and?
To add information or to join related ideas
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What is a word that describes an action or the way something is (verb) ?
adverb
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What are the two rules for comparative adjectives? Provide an example of each.
1) If it's regular= (noun)+er than = funnier than 2) If it's more than three syllables= more (noun) than = more beautiful than
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What are the two rules for comparative adverbs?
1) adverb+er than= Eat faster than that! 2) more adverb+ly than= please talk more quietly than that.
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What does an object of a preposition?
It's the noun or pronoun that ends a prepositional phrase.
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When do you use the conjunction but?
to join different ideas
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What does comparative mean?
When you compare two things with eachother and use the word than after.
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What are the three rules for Superlative adjectives?
1) For regular adjectives= the (noun)+est= the funniest 2) More than three syllables= the most (noun) = The most funny
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What are the two rules for superlative adverbs
1) the adverb+est= Her laugh is the funniest. 2) the most adverb+ly = She dances the most gracefully
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What does a preposition phrase begin and end with? Provide an example.
It starts with a prepostion and ends with the object of a prepostion. ... around the world ... to the cafe ... under the stars
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When do you use the conjunction or?
to suggest a choice
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What is the word for when you compare three or more things or actions?
Superlative
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What are the two exceptions of adjectives? What are their comparative and superlative forms?
good; comparative=better; Superlative=best bad;comparative=worse; Superlative=worst
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What are the exceptions for adverbs? What are their comparative and Superlative forms?
well; comparative=better; superlative=best badly; comparative=worse; superlative=worst
500
Make a complete sentence with a prepositional phrase.
Examples: I went into the house. She is playing around the neighborhood.
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When do you use a comma? when don't you?
comma= Compound sentence (two subjects and two verbs) No comma= compound subject (two things, places, and people) No comma= compound predicate (two verbs, or events)
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What is the meaning of preposition?
They tell the “position” of people or things in relation to where other people or things are located.