Nouns
What is a Collective Noun?
A noun that denotes a group of individuals.
What is a Verb?
A word that shows an action, occurrence or state of being
What are Pronouns?
Functions as a noun and replaces another noun to avoid repetitiveness
What are conjunctions?
Conjunctions connect words, phrases, or clauses.
Beyond, across, against, beneath, amidst are _______.
Prepositions
What is the Proper Noun in this sentence?
I like to eat at the Burger King on 7th street.
Burger King
What are the 2 main types of verbs? And define them.
Helping Verb - verbs that are used in a verb phrase used with a second verb to show tense or form a question or a negation.
Action Verb - a verb that describes an action
What does an adverb modify?
a verb, an adjective, and another adverb.
What are the 3 types of conjunctions?
1. Correlative Conjunctions
2. Subordinating Conjunctions
3. Coordinating Conjunctions
Which part of speech shows excitement or strong feeling?
Interjections
What is the Concrete Noun in this sentence?
The football felt rough in my hands.
Football
What kind of verb always comes before a predicative nominative or predicate adjective?
Linking Verb
What's the Adverb in the sentence?
Anxiously they returned home because they forgot the key at home.
Anxiously is the adverb
What is a coordinating conjunction?
A coordinating conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses with FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So).
What is an Emphatic Interjection?
Expresses surprise, strong emotion, or urgency and is followed by an exclamation.
What is an Abstract Noun?
A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
Create a Sentence with a linking verb in it.
Example: He was working in the hospital.
What are the seven types of Pronouns?
Personal, Reflexive, Demonstrative, Indefinite, Reciprocal, Interrogative, and Relative pronouns.
Create a sentence using correlative conjunctions
For example, I will either go for a hike, or stay home and watch TV.
Possible pairs:
Either, or; But, also; Neither, nor
Create a sentence with a preposition in it
Example: My home is between the library and the bank.
What are the types of nouns?
Common, proper, pronoun, concrete, abstract, collective, count and non-counting, nouns.
Create a complex sentence with an action verb(s) in it.
The teacher reads a book to her students, while they ask her questions about the story.
What is the pronoun in this sentence and what type is it?
I have not given anyone their presents yet.
Anyone is the pronoun, and it is an indefinite pronoun
What is the conjunction in this sentence and what kind is it?
Unless we finish the project, we will not be able to go to the pool.
Unless is the subordinating conjunction.
What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence?
He left the room in the middle of the discussion.
"in the middle of" is the prep phrase