Nouns
What Is a Noun?
A noun Is a Person,Place, or thing
What is an action verb?
A verb that shows an action, such as run, write, or think.
What is a determiner?
A word that comes before a noun to limit, specify, or clarify its meaning.
What is a conjunction?
A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence.
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
What is a Proper Noun?
This type of noun names a specific person, place, or thing and is capitalized.
What is a verb phrase?
A verb made up of a main verb and one or more helping verbs.
What is before the noun?
Unlike adjectives, determiners usually appear in this position in a noun phrase.
Identify the conjunction: “I wanted to go, but it was raining.”
The correct answer is But
Identify the adjective: “The blue car sped past us.”
What is blue?
"What is Ms. Johnson?" A Common noun or Proper?
Teacher is a common noun, but this name would be a proper noun.
What is present tense?
The verb tense that shows an action happening right now.
What are Possessive Determiners?
my, your, his, her, its, our, their
What is the main purpose of conjunctions in writing?
To Connect ideas
Adjectives often answer these questions about nouns.
What are what kind? which one? how many?
What is a proper noun?
A noun that names a specific person, place, or organization and is capitalized.
What is past tense?
The tense that shows an action that was completed in the past.
What is the?
In the phrase “the homework,” this word is the determiner.
This type of conjunction joins words or clauses of equal importance.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
An adjective that describes the quality or characteristic of a noun.
What is a descriptive adjective?
What is an abstract noun?
A noun that represents an idea, quality, or state rather than a physical object.
What is future tense?
The tense that shows an action that will happen.
What are articles?
A, an, and the are examples of these determiners.
This type of conjunction introduces a dependent clause
What is a subordinating conjunction
An adjective formed from a proper noun, such as American or Victorian.
What is a proper adjective?