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Noun Town
Describ'n my vib'n
Let's get physical
Prepping Prepositions and Connecting Conjunctions
Tutti Fruitti
100
What is a Noun
A naming word- names places, people, things and ideas
100
What is an adverb?
-Word describes how the action is happening/being done. -Tells you when the action occurs. -It can also tell you where!!!
100
What is a verb?
Doing words
100
What is a preposition?
Shows the relationship between two objects in a sentence. Joy sat ON the seat.
100
Why do we need pronouns?
So that language is less repetitive and we can use pronouns in pace of nouns.
200
Give 3 examples of abstract nouns
feelings/concepts- Miss Stribling is the judge!!!
200
What is an adjective and what else can they do?
Describes the noun. They can also be used in comparing things. Sally's dress was longer than Amber's.
200
What helps to add to the meaning of a verb?
Auxiliaries
200
What is a conjunction?
Joining word- joins more than 1 sentence together.
200
What colours are the 5 Olympic rings?
red, black, yellow, green, blue
300
Identify which of these nouns are Proper nouns and which are Pronouns: John, they, we, us, Westpac, you
Proper: John, Westpac Pronouns: they, we, you, us
300
Give a sentence with a time adverb in it.
Up to Miss S
300
Name the 3 tenses that verbs use to show when something is happening.
Present, past and future
300
Which lizard-like creature is native to NZ?
the Tuatara
400
Identify which are the concrete and abstract nouns: table, kindness, hate, floor, hair-tie, abandonment
Concrete: table, floor, hair-tie Abstract: kindness, hate, abandonment
400
What do adverbs often end in? Do they always?
-ly No, because time and place adverbs don't.
400
Identify the verbs in the following sentences: She sells sea shells on the seashore. John wandered aimlessly through the darkened wood and thought about all the things he could have done with his life.
sells wandered thought could have done
400
Identify the prepositions in the following sentence. Walking around the room singing stormy weather, at 57 Mount Pleasant Street. Bonus points for anyone who knows which song these lyrics are from.
around, at
400
Who wrote and sang the song: Dancing Queen?
ABBA
500
Name all the different types of nouns and what they are:
Compound, collective, proper, pronoun, abstract, concrete
500
Find the adjectives and adverbs: beautiful, happier, suggestively, busily, worst, greatest, timid, yesterday, somewhere
Adjectives: beautiful, happier, worst, greatest, timid Adverbs: suggestively, busily, yesterday, somewhere
500
Identify which are the main verbs and which are the auxiliary: She had been writing some love songs. He should tidy his room, but he didn't feel like it. I might play football this term instead of hockey.
Auxiliaries: had been, should, might Main verbs: writing, tidy, play
500
Jillian had to go to school today, but she didn't want to at all! She knew it wasn't fair, yet there was no way her mum was going to back down and she just didn't want to fight with her. Find the conjunctions
, but , yet and
500
What is the world's largest religion?
Christianity- 33% of the world's population Islam is the second largest.