Nouns/Verbs
Identify the SINGULAR and PLURAL nouns in the following sentence:
My parents expect us children to help with the housework.
Singular: housework
Plural: parents, children
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun by limiting its meaning.
What is an adjective?
A word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
Describe what a simple subject is.
What is the main noun or pronoun that the sentence is about?
Mr. Felano's favorite sport.
What is soccer?
Describe the difference between CONCRETE and ABSTRACT nouns, and name an example of each of them.
Concrete - names an object that occupies space or can be recognized by any of the senses, ex: phone, sky, grass, bicycle.
Abstract - names an idea, quality, or characteristic, ex: love, happiness, sleepiness, anger.
The adjectives "a," "an," and "the."
What are articles?
Name 3 prepositions.
Describe what a simple predicate is.
What is the main verb/verb phrase that expresses action or being about the subject?
The school Mr. Felano will be teaching at in the fall.
What is Verona High School?
This links, or joins, the subject of a sentence (often a noun or pronoun) with a word or expression the identifies or describes the subject.
What is a linking verb?
The parts of speech an adverb modifies.
What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?
A word that joins single words or groups of words.
What is a conjunction?
Describe what makes up the complete subject.
What is the simple subject plus all of the words that tell about it, I.e. modifiers, etc.
Mr. Felano's favorite superhero.
Who is Batman?
Name 3 interrogative pronouns.
What are "who," "whom," "which," "whose," and "what"?
What are "when," "where," "how," and "to what degree?"
Identify the prepositional phrase(s) and object(s) of the preposition(s) in the following sentence:
The horses jumped over the fence and headed for the forest.
What are "over the fence" and "headed for the forest"?
Describe what makes up the complete predicate.
What is all of the words that tell what the subject is or does, including the simple predicate.
Mr. Felano's favorite book.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
The difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
What is that a transitive verb is an action verb that is followed by a word or words that answer "what?" or "whom?" and that an intransitive verb is an action verb that is not followed by words that answer those questions?
Identify ALL modifiers in the following sentence.
We woke up early this beautiful morning to get some hard work done.
Adjectives: "beautiful," "hard," "some," and "done"
Adverbs: "early"
Article: "this"
List the differences between coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions.
Coordinating: join words that have equal grammatical weight; "and," "but," "or," "nor," "for," "so," "yet"
Correlative: works in pairs to join words of equal weight; "both...and," "just as...so," "either...or," "neither...nor"
Subordinating: joins two clauses so that one is grammatically dependent on the other; "after," "because," "since," "until"
Identify the simple/complete subject and predicate in the following sentence.
The president of our class won the election by a landslide.
What is...
The president of our class won the election by a landslide.
Mr. Felano's favorite Marvel movie.
What is Captain America: The Winter Soldier?