Name That Noun
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun
Name the verb: Marcus sprinted down the empty hallway.
sprinted
This part of speech modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb — and often ends in -ly.
adverb
Any group of words that contains both a subject and a verb.
clause
In "The Belair-Edison School", this kind of noun is why those words get capital letters.
proper noun
Am, is, are, was, were, been — all forms of this one very busy verb.
to be
In "The exhausted runner collapsed", name the part of speech of exhausted.
adjective
This is the kind of clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence.
dependent
Courage, freedom, and jealousy are all this kind of noun — you can't touch any of them.
abstract noun
"The bell had rung before we reached the door." Name the tense of had rung.
past perfect
Good, better, best. Name the degree that best is in.
superlative
"Because the power went out." Name what's wrong with it.
it is a fragment
In "The team lost its captain", this is the word the pronoun its points back to.
team
"She was given a second chance." The subject receives the action instead of doing it, so the verb is in this voice.
passive voice
In "It was a long, exhausting day", this punctuation mark is required because you could swap in the word and between the two adjectives.
comma
True or False:
"Go!" is considered a sentence.
true.
In "Ji-li handed her brother the letter", this is the job the word brother is doing.
indirect object
In "To win, you have to practice", this is what we call the form to win.
infinitive
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What are Mr. Wood's three classroom expectations?
Be responsible, Be respectful, Be remarkable
What does a sentence have to start with in order to be complete?
A capital letter