Nouns
A noun is a ______, _____, _____, or ____.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
True or false, verbs always require "action" or physical movement.
What is false?
Example: I want new socks for the campout.
Identify the adjective in the sentence below.
Aaliyah told a hilarious joke.
What is "hilarious"
What is the adverb in the sentence below?
Belmont Ridge Middle School students are extremely excited about the summer break.
What is "extremely"?
Pronouns take the place of ______.
What are nouns?
Chip is afraid that he will be late for baseball practice.
These types of nouns can be seen, touched, smelled, tasted, or heard.
What are concrete nouns?
A _______ verb simply connects (or links) the subject to the rest of the sentence.
What is a linking verb?
Adjectives describe this part of speech.
What is a noun?
Adverbs that intensify an adjective usually appear in _____ of the adjective.
What is "in front of"?
Those tires are completely worn-out.
A pronoun must ______ the noun it replaces.
What is match?
These are the four types of nouns.
What is concrete, abstract, proper, or common?
Verbs appear in two forms known as _______ verbs or _______ verbs.
What are action verbs or linking verbs?
Eddie cooked dinner. (action)
Valerie is excited about her new phone. (linking)
Adjectives often precede (come before) the noun they describe, but they may also appear after the noun they describe and be connected by a _______ ____.
What is a linking verb?
Allen is nervous.
Identify the adverbs in the sentence below.
The pig grew increasingly large but continued to fly very high.
What is "increasingly," "large," "very," and "high"?
The noun replaced by a pronoun is called its ___________.
What is an antecedent?
I like my dentist but it has been over a year since I have seen him.
Dentist is the antecedent (noun) for the pronoun him.
An abstract noun can not be seen, touched, smelled, tasted, or heard. An example of an abstract noun is _____.
What is _____?
friendship
happiness
patriotism
The verb(s) in the sentence below is/are _________.
Lisa and Daniel think that they hid the candy very well.
What are "think" and "hid"?
Lisa and Daniel think that they hid the candy very well.
A ____ that describes another _____ becomes an adjective.
What is a noun?
Ex. Ethan won the chess match.
Adverbs can describe _____, __________, or other _______.
What are "verbs," "adjectives," or other "adverbs"?
Saanvi sprinted anxiously across the finish line.
Her mother was very happy. (How, modifies the degree of the adjective.)
Her brother jumped very high while cheering for her. (How can also modify intensity of another adverb.)
Pronoun - Antecedent Agreement
True or False
The following example is correct and does not require any edits.
"A chicken nugget should be eaten with mustard," Alice argued. "Ketchup alone just ruins them."
What is false?
"Chicken nuggets should be eaten with mustard," Alice argued. "Ketchup alone just ruins them."
A plural pronoun requires a plural antecedent.
A proper noun identifies a ________ person, place, thing, or idea, while a common noun does not.
An example using both a proper and common noun in a sentence is _(contestant example)_.
What is specific?
Contestant example: _________________
A sentence that includes two or more action verbs often uses _________ tenses as in the example below.
David hopes that he pulled only weeds from his mother's flower bed.
What are different tenses?
David hopes that he pulled only weeds from his mother's flower bed.
Hope is the present action verb.
Pulled is a past action verb (describing the action that occurred previously).
Adjectives tell us ______, _____ ____ __, or ___ ____.
What is which, what kind of, or how many?
Maria conducted that experiment. (which)
Cary loves Italian food. (what kind of)
Josh has four dogs. (how many)
Adverbs tell us "___," "____," or "____" something happens.
What is "how," "where," or "when"?
Adverbs may appear anywhere within the sentence.
Nico kindly thanked the waiter. (how, often ends in "ly")
Debbie saw the monster outside. (where)
Yesterday, we played a new video game. (when)
The antecedent in the sentence below is ____________.
My sister and her best friend will meet for ice cream after school today. They have been working hard on the student government service project.
What is my sister and her best friend?