Nouns/Adjectives
What is an adjective?
Adjective: Modifies or describes a noun (short, old, rotten, wonderful)
What is adjective?
What is a verb?
Modifies or describes a noun (short, old, rotten, wonderful)
An action or state of being (taught, closes, sits, is)
What is a preposition?
a word that shows the relationship between a noun/pronoun and another word in the sentence
What is a conjunction?
Joins words or groups of words (and, however, but, yet)
What is an interjection?
Expresses mild or strong emotion (Wow! Uh-oh… Alrighty)
What is a common noun/proper noun?
What is a pronoun?
Common Noun: names any one of a group of persons, places, things, or ideas (vague)
Proper Noun: names a particular person, place, thing, or idea (specific)
Pronoun: Takes the place of a noun (he, it, those, us)
Explain what an adverb is and give an example of two adverbs
Adverb: modifies adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs
Tells us: how, when, where, why, under what conditions, or to what degree
Often formed by adding -ly to an adjective (lazily, happily, etc.)
Name 6 prepositions
in, on, for, between, under, before
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Give the definition and an example
joins words that are used in the same way
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
Fanboys
Wow! Goodness! Oh!
What is an antecedent?
Antecedent: the noun (or noun phrase) that the pronoun replaces
What is a verb phrase?
Verb Phrase: consists of one main verb and one or more helping (aka: auxiliary) verbs
What do prepositions often show?
(often shows position, direction, time, or cause).
What is a correlative conjunction?
Give an example
are pairs of conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way.
(both/and; not only/but also; either/or; neither/nor; whether;or
Identify the interjection in the sentence
Miles, wow, I can't believe you ate an elephant.
Identify the adjectives in this sentence
The soloist was very confident, and played the difficult piece beautifully
confident and difficult
Identify the adverbs and verbs in this sentence
The soloist was very confident, and played the difficult piece beautifully
Adverbs-very, beautifully
Verb- played
Identify the prepositions in the sentence
The cat hid under the table and against the curtain.
under, against
Create a sentence using two coordinating conjunctions
My mom and dad said I can go. — He can go but I can’t.
What relation does an interjection have to the rest of the sentence?
It has none
Identify the pronouns and antecedents in this sentence
Lisa showed her grandfather how to use the computer program; it had always baffled him
PN- her, it, him
Ant- Lisa, grandfather, computer program
Identify the verb phrase in this sentence
The Louisiana Purchase was completed by President Thomas Jefferson.
was completed
Create a sentence using three prepositions
n/a
Create a sentence using two correlative conjunctions
Neither Yoko nor Evan had read the book. — Both Marcus and I will be going.
Create a sentence with two interjections
n/a