Definitions
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
The nouns in the following sentence:
The girl is a great student.
What are girl and student?
The pronoun in the following sentence:
He loves to play hockey.
What is he?
The preposition in the following sentence.
The dog ran after the cat.
What is after?
Identify the adjective in the following sentence.
The little child played happily.
What is little?
Identify the verb in the following sentence:
I ran around the park.
An action word or a word that shows a state of being
What is a verb?
This type of noun names a general person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a common noun?
A pronoun usually refers to a word earlier in the text. That word is called _________.
What is an antecedent?
The prepositions in the following sentence.
The teacher walked across the classroom and sat down at her desk.
What are across, down, and at?
Identify the adverb in the sentence.
The little child played happily.
What is happily?
Identify the verbs in the following sentence:
Learning to read and write is very important.
What are read, write, and is?
A word that conveys emotions
What is an interjection?
This type of noun is always capitalized and names a specific person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a proper noun?
Maggie is chewing on her bone.
The antecedent that her is referring to is this word.
What is Maggie?
The prepositional phrase in the following sentence.
The school bake sale will be in the cafeteria.
Identify the adverb in the sentence:
I thought the movie ended abruptly.
What is abruptly?
The type of verb that tells or expresses what someone is doing.
What is an action verb?
A word that describes a noun or pronoun
An adjective
This type of noun names someone or something that can be seen or touched.
What is a concrete noun?
Sally made cookies for her sister's birthday.
The antecedent that her is referring to is this word.
What is Sally?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence.
That puppy at the park is so happy.
What is at the park?
Identify the adjective in the sentence:
We ordered two cups of coffee.
What is two?
Identify the verb in the following sentence:
Look at that billboard.
What is look?
A word that shows the relationship between words
What is a preposition?
This type of noun names ideas, qualities, or feelings, which cannot be seen or touched.
What is an abstract noun?
Joseph forgot to do his homework.
The antecedent that his is referring to is this word.
What is Joseph?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence.
Mark looked behind his brother.
What is behind his brother?
Identify the adverb in the sentence below:
She lightly dusted the brownies with a layer of powdered sugar before serving.
What is lightly?
Identify the verb in the following sentence:
That lake is very beautiful.
What is is?