Nouns and Pronouns
What is a common noun? Give 3 examples.
Definition: words for types of things, people, places, such as "dog" that are not in capital letters.
Examples kitten, chair, education
Identify the verb/verbs
"After the storm, the sky looked like a beautiful painting"
looked
Identify the adjective in the sentence:
They live in the beautiful house down the street.
beautiful
A word used to describe or modify a noun:
an adjective
"Purple" is what part of speech?
adjective
What is a pronoun? Give 3 examples.
Definition: A pronoun replaces a noun or other pronouns.
Examples: she, him, myself, ourselves, themselves , everyone, what,
What are the three types of verbs?
Action, Linking, Helping
Which are the adjectives in the following sentence:
Find a safe path around those four huge rocks.
Safe
Those, four, huge
What is the name of living beings, places, things, or ideas?
Examples: love, hate, country, English
Nouns
A name of a particular person or place. Give 2 examples.
Proper Noun Definition: A name of a particular person or place.
Mr. Smith, Superman, Susie
Identify the proper nouns in the following sentence:
Mr. Smith lives in Boise, Idaho with his family.
Mr. Smith, Boise, Idaho
"He is talking to me right now."
What type of verb is the word, "is?"
A helping verb which "helps" the word 'talking'.
What does an adverb do? Give one example.
Definition: Modifies or describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
Examples: Quickly, quietly, easily, soon, often
Which part of speech replaces nouns to help with repetition?
pronouns
True or false: In order for a sentence to be complete, it has to have a noun and a verb.
true
Give an example of a compound noun
For example:
bus stop, boyfriend, water tank, dining-table
"The song sounds really good"
What type of verb is the word sounds.
Linking
Mention an adverb of frequency
Always, never, often, sometimes, usually, etc.
He drove quickly... Quickly is an example of ...
an adverb
Them, yourself, mine, her, they, their, them are all examples of what part of speech?
pronouns
Replace the nouns in the next sentence:
My sister needs to find a person
For example:
She needs to find them
Give an example of a Helping Verb
be, can, should, would, must, have
In the next sentences, when is fast an adverb and when is it an adjective?
a) The hare ran fast.
b) The fast hare ran.
a) Adverb
b) Adjective
"Run" is what part of speech in this sentence?
I went on a long run.
noun
The, a, and an are all examples of...
and which one is definite?
articles
"The" because it is talking about a particular thing.