Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place, or thing.
What makes a complete sentence?
A capital letter, subject, predicate, and punctuation.
Where is a prefix in a word ?
At the begining.
yesterday we had sub sandwiches for lunch.
"Yesterday" needs to be capitalized
What is a verb?
A verb is an action word.
What is a subject?
A subject is who/what the sentence is talking about.
Where is the suffix in a word?
At the end.
Next tuesday is our IREAD test
Next Tuesday is our IREAD test.
What is an adjective?
An adjective describes a noun.
What is a predicate?
A predicate is what the subject is doing the sentence.
What are homophones?
Homophones are words that sound alike, but mean different.
The cat.
The sentence is missing a predicate.
ex: The cat is sleeping on the couch.
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun replace a noun.
What is the predicate in the following sentence?
Micah played tag with his friends at recess.
played tag
Give 3 examples of homophones.
Examples:
bare, bear
be, bee
knew, new
Zeke is going to disney world for his birthday next year.
Zeke is going to Disney World for his birthday next year.
Disney World is a proper noun.
What are three examples of a pronoun?
She,her,it,they,we,he,him......
What is the subject in the following sentence?
HonA'ri and her friends sat next to each other at lunch.
HonA'ri and her friends
What two words make up the word "we've"
We have
Went to school yesterday.
A subject is missing in the sentence.