Nouns
I am the person, place, thing, or idea the sentence is about.
What is the subject of the sentence.
I have three different spellings and each spelling means something different, but all spellings sound the same. The adverb version means having more than enough.
What is too and spelled t-o-o?
In the sentence, I'm visiting my favorite uncle, I am the word that answers which one.
What is favorite.
In English and several other languages, I am the verb that is most often used.
What is the To Be verb?
I have four types — coordinating, subordinating, conjunctive adverbs, correlative — and create relationships between elements I connect. What kind connects words, phrases, and clauses of equal rank?
What is coordinating?
I have six different characteristics. Can you name one of them?
What is: person, number, gender, case, class, special
I always come as not just one word, but as a phrase. My phrase has to end with what other part of speech?
Noun or pronoun
I am the noun or noun phrase in a sentence that is affected by the recipient of the action of a transitive verb. What am I called and what word in the following sentence am I? Grandmother left Martha one million dollars.
Indirect object - Martha
Yesterday, we finally decided to really clean the garage. Which word answers when?
What is yesterday?
In the sentence, they thought about buying the valuable painting, one of the words answers what kind.
What is valuable?
Most people are only taught that I have three tenses - past, present, and future. In reality I have more than three. How many tenses are there?
Are there twelve tenses?
We coordinate and our nickname is FANBOYS.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
This is the type of characteristic you learn when studying point-of-view.
What is person?
As a prepositional phrase, I alsmost always function as what other type of phrases?
Adverbial and adjective
I am the noun or noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recepient of the action of a transitive phrase. What am I and what word am I in this sentence. Jimmy fed the dog.
Direct object - dog
Yesterday, we finally decided to really clean the garage. Which word answers how often?
What is finally.
In the sentence the three mice ran across the road, one of the words answers how many.
What is three?
I am a habit such as I walk to school or I drink tea. What tense am I?
Simple present.
I connect or introduce dependent clauses that are not equal in rank. One example is AFTER we ate lunch, we went for a swim.
Subordinating Conjunction
This characteristic tells you where I am located in the sentence and there happen to be three of me.
Case: Subjective, objective, and possessive
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence and then tell me if you think it is also serving as an adjective or an adverbial phrase.
The glass in the sink is dirty.
In the sink - adjective
I am a word or phrase that follows a linking verb and describes or identifies the subject. I can have two different names. What is one of my names and what word or phrase am I in the following sentences?
Brenda is a waitress.
Brenda feels happy.
Subject compliment or predicate nominative
waitress
happy
Yesterday, we finally decided to really clean the garage. Which word answers how much?
really
Due to the construction I seem to have little patience driving to work. One of those words answers how much.
What is little?
People tend to think of me as only expressing action, but I can also express a state of being or help connect the subject to something else. I am known as a ....
What is a linking verb?
I transition one equal or related independent clause to the next.
Conjunctive adverbs
I am a class pronoun and I refer to nonspecific persons or things; usually singular, but may be plural.
Indefinite
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence and then tell me if you think it is also serving as an adjective or an adverbial phrase.
He moved without grace.
without grace
adverbial phrase
name at least one suffix that can be added to a verb or adjective that truns that word into a noun.
-er, -ness, -ment, -ance, -ence, -ity
One of these phrases is correct:
Please drive carefully.
Please drive careful.
Please drive carefully.
Adjectives don't only describe / modify nouns and pronouns, adjectives also describe/modify ...
What are other adjectives.
When you expand me into my different forms and tenses it is called....
What is conjugating.
I join words, phrases, and clauses of equal rank and I come in pairs.
What are Correlative Conjunctions?
I am class of pronoun in which there are only four — this, these, that, those — and I may also be a noun or adjective. What is my class?
Demonstrative
Prepositions and prepositional phrases help us identify location in what two arenas?
Time and space