What is a noun?
A noun is the name of a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.
Identify the verb in the sentence: Jason and his brother ran from Belmopan to Belize City last year.
ran
Identify the interjection in the following sentences: Oh, I thought you were meeting your parents in the parking lot.
a, an
Label the prepositional phrase in the sentence: We were invited to my grandmother's house for the Easter holiday.
to - preposition; my - modifier; grandmother's - modifier; house - object of preposition
for - preposition; the - modifier; Easter - modifier; holiday - object of preposition
List two kinds of nouns.
Common, proper, collective, compound, concrete, abstract
Identify and label the verb or verb phrase in the sentence: The flight attendant apologized twice for the long day.
Action verb: apologized
What is an interjection?
An interjection is a word or phrase used to express feeling or emotion.
Identify and label the adjective or adverb in the sentence: Loud clamoring came from people in Belmopan.
Adjective: loud
Define a preposition.
A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between words in a sentence. They may show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships.
Identify the nouns in the following sentence: My family and friends are the most important people in my life.
family - friends - people - life
Identify and label the verb in the following sentence: Did you complete the puzzle?
Verb Phrase: did complete
did - helping
complete - main verb
Define pronouns in your own words.
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun or another pronoun.
Identify the adjective or adverb in the following sentence: My brother was order to wait for my parents inside.
Adverb: inside
Define conjunctions
A conjunction is a word that joins words, phrases, and clauses.
Identify the nouns in the following sentence AND state what kind of noun each one is: Jack and his family will travel to Asia during the Christmas break.
Jack: Proper/concrete
family: collective
Asia: Proper
Break: common/abstract
Identify and label the verb or verb phrase in the following sentence: The horses appear restless when darkness begins to fall.
Linking verb: appear
List two third person pronouns
he, she, it, they
Choose one adverb and one adjective. Compose a sentence using both
The overly crowded room was evacuated before an accident happened.
What is the difference between a dependent and an independent clause?
An independent clause is a complete sentence. This means that the sentence makes complete sense alone.
Choose any four kinds of nouns and provide an example of each.
Differentiate among the kinds of verbs.
Action verbs: they show action (either mental or physical)
Linking: they link the subjects of sentences to other words in the predicate
Helping: verbs used to form verb phrases in sentences. They may accompany either an action or a linking verb.
What are the three persons in personal pronouns? Differentiate among three persons.
First person - speaking about oneself
Second person - who you are speaking to
Third person - refer to the person or thing spoken about
Explain the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns
Adverbs describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb.
What is the difference between the two main types of conjunctions? Give an example of each.
Coordinating: joins two words, phrases, or clauses of equal grammatical rank. EXAMPLES: for, and, nor, but, or, yet
Subordinating: joins clauses of unequal grammatical rank. They join dependent clauses to independent clauses. EXAMPLES: although, because, if, since, unless