Prepositions
The three kinds of relationships prepositions exemplify between nouns.
What are relationships between space, time, and comparison?
What are nouns and pronouns / adjectives, adverbs, and adverbs?
The relationship between nouns and pronouns.
What are pronouns replace nouns?
The difference between action verbs and linking verbs.
What are action verbs explaining an action and linking verbs describing a quality?
List the three types of conjunctions.
What are coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions?
The preposition in the sentence: Bill called Alice on the phone.
What is on?
List the articles
What are a, an, and the?
Label the personal and possessive pronouns: If you won't pick up your clothes then I'm giving them away.
What is: If you (pers) won't pick up your (pos) clothes then I'm (pers) giving them (pers) away?
If the given verb is transitive or intransitive: The baker pulled the muffins out of the oven.
What is transitive?
Find the coordinating conjunctions: You can invite Mark or Layton but not both of them.
What are or and but?
The object in the prepositional phrase: You need to get under the blankets.
What are blankets?
Count the adjectives in this sentence: The bouncing baby girl rode a bright red tricycle down the cracked sidewalk.
What are 8 adjectives? (the, bouncing, baby, a, bright, red, the, and cracked).
Which type of pronoun (ref or int) is seen in the sentence: You, yourself, won the race?
What is yourself is intensive?
Determine whether the given verb is an action verb or linking verb: The room looks insanely old.
What is a linking verb?
Find the correlative conjunction: Whether the weather is cold or hot we'll still go to the beach.
What is whether and or?
The whole prepositional phrase in the sentence: This sauce tastes like a dirty gym sock.
What is like a dirty gym sock?
List the adverbs in the sentence: The stream poured loudly over the rocks in a way that was very peaceful.
What are loudly and very?
Which type of pronoun is bolded in the sentence: Robbie didn't help because he took nothing to the car.
What is indefinite?
Label the whole verb phrase and whether it is transitive or intransitive: Stewart will be running for mayor of Possum Springs next year.
What is will be running and intransitive?
Find the subordinating conjunction: Dwight hurried down the hall as if he'd seen a ghost.
What is as if?
The preposition and object labeled in: I brought jam in addition to biscuits.
What is
(prep)(prep) (obj)
I brought jam in addition to biscuits.
List adj and adv in the sentence: The Italian performer sang very energetically while her partner crooned sadly.
Label the types of pronouns and the collective noun:
What did Kenzie do with her mom's radio? Have you seen it? The class needs it.
What is What (interrogative) and her (possessive) and you (personal) and it (personal) and class (collective noun)?
Label all aspects of the verbs (transitive vs intransitive, linking vs action, and what parts of a potential verb phrase are helping verbs): Winnie took pictures for the school paper and was interviewing students all day.
What is took (action, transitive, no helping verbs) and was (helping, action verb) and interviewing (action, main verb, and transitive)?
Find the conjunction and label its type: Not only did Maureen forget about the birthday party, but she also forgot about Christmas!
What is correlative and not only but also?