Nouns
This type of noun cannot be touched or seen, like freedom or kindness.
What is an abstract noun?
This type of verb connects the subject to a word in the predicate, often a state of being.
What is a linking verb?
This kind of adjective answers the question “which one?”
What is a demonstrative adjective?
This kind of adverb describes how often something happens.
What is an adverb of time?
This part of a prepositional phrase always follows the preposition.
What is the object of the preposition?
Identify all the nouns in this sentence: After the rehearsal, the director gave the cast a pep talk.
What are rehearsal, director, cast, talk?
Identify the main verb and helping verb(s) in: The athletes have been training all summer.
What is have been (helping), training (main)?
Find the three adjectives in this sentence: The small, frightened bird flew into the open window.
What are small, frightened, open?
Find the adverb in this sentence and tell what it modifies: She almost missed the bus because she was talking.
What is almost, modifies missed?
Identify the preposition and object in: The book fell between the desks.
What is between (preposition), desks (object)?
This noun is made up of more than one word, like fire truck or mother-in-law.
What is a compound noun?
Is the verb in this sentence transitive or intransitive? The children laughed loudly at the joke.
What is intransitive?
What is the superlative form of the adjective generous?
What is most generous?
Compare: He works hard. He hardly works. What’s the difference in meaning?
Hard = with effort; Hardly = barely, almost not.
How many prepositional phrases are in this sentence? During the storm, the dog hid under the bed in the basement.
What is three? (During the storm, under the bed, in the basement)
Which noun is the object of the preposition in this sentence: The sound of thunder frightened the puppy.
What is thunder?
Rewrite the sentence in past perfect tense: He studies the map carefully.
What is He had studied the map carefully?
Identify the adjective clause in: The book that she borrowed from the library is overdue.
What is that she borrowed from the library?
In the sentence She completed the project more carefully than her partner, what is the comparison being made and which word shows it?
The comparison is between how she and her partner worked; more carefully shows it.
Find the prepositional phrase acting as an adjective in: The painting on the wall is a Monet.
What is on the wall?
Identify the appositive in this sentence: My cousin Jake, a skilled carpenter, built the new bookshelf.
What is a skilled carpenter?
In this sentence, what is the verb mood and what does it express? If I were taller, I could reach the shelf.
What is subjunctive mood; it expresses a wish or hypothetical situation?
Explain the difference between the adjectives in these two sentences:
She is a late arrival.
She arrived late to the party.
What is: In (1), late is an adjective; in (2), late is an adverb. |
Identify both adverbs and the word each modifies in: He very quickly responded to the emergency.
Very modifies quickly; quickly modifies responded
Explain the difference between: He sat beside his friend.
and:
He sat besides his friend.
What is: Beside = next to; besides = in addition to (also note: besides is often incorrectly used for beside)