VOCABULARY #1
A word that names a person, a place or a thing.
What is a noun? EXAMPLES: ball, student, mall, park, pizza, candle
Conjunction
What is a word that joins two parts of a sentence? EXAMPLE: because, but, so
Nouns that begin with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun? EXAMPLE: Savannah, Suitland Elementary School, Pizza Planet, Christmas
NAME THE VERB IN THIS SENTENCE: Shelton and Kameren kick the ball.
What is KICK?
NAME THE WORD IN THE SENTENCE THAT IS AN ADJECTIVE: Khloe and Urijah run very fast!
What is FAST?
A word that shows action.
What is a verb? EXAMPLES: kick, tell, throw, ask, write
Proper Noun
What is a noun that specifically names a specific person, place or thing? EXAMPLE: Mrs. Manapul goes into the store.
NAME THE WORDS IN THE SENTENCE THAT ARE NOUNS: Kelcey and Christopher are great reading partners.
What are Kelcey and Christopher?
NAME THE VERB IN THIS SENTENCE:I am cold.
What is am?
NAME THE ADJECTIVE IN THIS SENTENCE: The hungry bear sniffed the berries.
What is the word HUNGRY?
A word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
What is an adjective? EXAMPLES: red, smart, funny, stale, cool.
The one noun in the sentence that tells us who or what the sentence is about.
What is a simple subject?
CHANGE THE PART IN CAPITALS TO A PRONOUN: Here is MR. PERGES' PET DOG.
What is Here is IT?
NAME THE VERB IN THIS SENTENCE: Draven and Gael paint their picture.
What is the word PAINT?
NAME THE ADJECTIVE IN THIS SENTENCE: He saw the red and yellow bike at the store.
What are the words RED and YELLOW?
Every sentence has two parts (separate from the parts of speech). This is the part that tells us who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
The main verb in the sentence that tells us what the subject is doing.
What is a simple predicate?
CHANGE THE PART IN CAPITALS TO A PRONOUN: ROMAR AND I made some experiments.
What is WE made some experiments?
NAME THE VERB IN THIS SENTENCE: Benjamin and Urijah run around the track.
What is the word RUN?
NAME THE ADJECTIVE IN THIS SENTENCE: My brother's room is smaller than my room.
What is the word SMALLER? Sometimes we use adjectives to compare.
Every sentence has two parts (separate from the parts of speech). This is the part that tells what the subject is doing.
What is a predicate?
Possessive Noun
What is a noun that shows ownership? A possessive noun has an apostrophe. POSSESS=TO OWN. EXAMPLES: Mr. Perges' friend, the dog's food, the story's title.
A word that takes the place of a noun. This makes the word even more general than a common noun. Instead of the girl, you would say she.
What is a pronoun?
NAME THE VERB IN THIS SENTENCE: Tai'von, Eden, and Marquis are Suitland Panthers.
What is the word ARE?
NAME THE ADJECTIVE IN THIS SENTENCE: The baby's room is the smallest in the house.
What is the word SMALLEST? Sometimes we use adjectives to compare.