Pronouns
(1) Did you invite Tim and Khalid to your birthday party?
Replace "Tim and Khalid" with a pronoun.
Did you invite THEM to your birthday party?
What are quotation marks?
Quotation marks go around the words being said aloud by characters in a story.
A plural noun is when there is multiple of a noun.
Baby --> Babies
Pencil --> Pencils
Tiger --> Tigers
Scholar --> Scholars
What is a possessive noun?
A noun that shows ownership, states that something belongs to that noun.
What is a common and proper noun? Give an example of each.
A common noun is any person, place, or thing. A proper noun is a specific person, place or thing that has a name.
Tom Brady is a great football player.
Replace "Tom Brady" with a pronoun.
HE is a great football player.
Identify where the quotation marks should go in the following sentence:
Alanna said, it's time to leave for the basketball game.
Alanna said, "it's time to leave for the basketball game."
Which is the correct plural form of the word "bunny"?
(1) bunnys
(2) bunnies
(3) bunneys
(2) bunnies is correct.
This is correct because when a noun ends in "y" we change the ending to "ie"
Place the apostrophe to make the noun possessive:
- Girl
- Cat
- Ms. Devaney
- girl's
- cat's
- Ms. Devaney's
Is there a proper noun in the following sentence? If so, where is it?
"The last movie I saw was The Grinch."
The proper noun is "The Grinch."
(1) Khloe and Emmanuelle have been friends since third grade.
Replace "Khloe and Emmanuelle" with a pronoun.
THEY have been friends since third grade.
Rewrite the following sentence with correct quotation marks.
My favorite color is red, said Muhammad.
"My favorite color is red," said Muhammad.
Correct the following sentence:
(1) Aaron noticed that his foots had grown because they no longer fit in his shoes.
Change "foots" to "feet."
This is an example of an irregular plural noun, where we change the spelling to make it plural.
Ex.
child --> children
mouse --> mice
woman --> women
Use the correct possessive form of the noun in parentheses to complete the sentence.
The book you are looking for is in the _________ section. (children)
children's
Name the verb in the following sentences?
(1) Aniya caught the basketball.
(2) Taylor saw the dog.
(3) Jamier wrote a song.
(2) saw
(3) wrote
(1) We were so proud of ______ team when we won the game.
Fill in the blank with the correct pronoun.
We were so proud of OUR team when we won the game.
Which of the following sentences are correct and why?
(1) Emily said to Jaxon, "we have recess next".
(2) Emily said to Jaxon, "we have recess next."
(2) is correct because the punctuation mark goes inside the quotation marks.
Is "people" an example of a singular or plural noun?
Choose the noun that should be possessive and write the possessive form.
"Bobby best friend is Jeremy."
Bobby's best friend is Jeremy.
Where do the commas belong in the following sentence?
(1) My favorite foods are pizza pasta and icecream.
(1) My favorite foods are pizza, pasta, and icecream.
(1) My group was working on a math problem. (2) Ms. Roman told we that the answer was right.
What word needs to be changed in Sentence 2? What should it be changed to?
WE should be changed to US
Which of the following sentences are correct and why?
(1) "I am going to the carnival this weekend," Kady said, "and I am so excited."
(2) "I am going to the carnival this weekend." Kady said. "and I am so excited."
(1) is correct because it uses commas inside of the quotation marks rather than periods. The sentence is not complete after Kady says "weekend," therefore we should only use a comma.
(1) My mom asked me to get the berrys from the fridge.
(1) My mom asked me to get the berries from the fridge.
Emily said that the red notebook is hers.
In the sentence above, which noun is the possessive noun?
"Hers"
What edit should be made to the following sentence?
(1) Yesterday, I run at the park.
It should be written in the past tense.