Nouns
What is a noun?
A person, place, or thing
What is a verb?
The action word, something you can do.
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun. (describes a person, place, or thing)
What is an adverb?
A word that describes the verb (Describes the action)
What do you call words that are similar?
Ex. raining, pouring
Synonyms
What are the nouns in this sentence?
Attean took Matt fishing at the creek.
Attean, Matt, creek
Which word is the verb in this sentence?
The brown squirrel ran up the tree.
ran
Which word is an adjective in the sentence?
A loud noise woke me up.
loud
Which word is an adverb in this sentence?
The turtle slowly crossed the road.
slowly
What word means comparing two things using the words like or as?
Ex. He is a fast as a rabbit.
Simile
Which words are nouns in this sentence?
The sun rose high up in the blue sky.
Sun, sky
Which word is a verb in this sentence?
The dog chased the cat around the yard.
chased
Find the adjective in the sentence.
Three sisters went to the mall on Saturday.
Three
Which word is an adverb in this sentence?
How quickly can you write your name?
quickly
What word means a phrase that means something different than the what they say?
Ex: It's raining cats and dogs.
Idiom
Which words are a noun?
quickly, school, jump, Culver's, red
school, Culver's
Which words are verbs?
house, yell, walk, three, McDonald's, eat
yell, walk, eat
Which words are adjectives?
green, bird, beautiful, yapping, skinny
green, beautiful, skinny
Which words are adverbs?
carefully, dog, read, angrily, easily, book
carefully, angrily, easily
Which word means to describe something in an extremely exaggerated way?
Ex. Stormalong was born 18 ft long.
Hyperbole
Find the nouns in this sentence.
Our school store was very successful on Tuesday.
school store, Tuesday
Find the verbs in the sentence.
Lucy and Sally went to the theater and watched a movie.
went, watched
Find the adjectives in the sentence.
Two red robins sat on the tiny branch of the gnarled tree.
Two, red, tiny, gnarled
Find the adverbs in this sentence.
Proudly the students showed their teacher how rapidly they could line up.
Proudly, rapidly
Which word means to describe non-human things using human qualities?
Ex. The leaves dance in the wind.
Personification