Nouns
The 4 categories of nouns
What is person, place, thing, or idea?
The definition of a pronoun.
What is a word that takes the place of a noun?
The definition of an adjective?
What is a word that describes a noun?
The definition of a verb phrase
What is the action of the sentence, including all helping and linking verbs?
The young gymnast will try the rings tomorrow.
Identify the adverb(s) in the sentence.
What is "tomorrow?"
Identify the nouns the following sentence:
"The announcer said that the bus for Minneapolis would leave in thirty minutes."
What are announcer, bus, Minneapolis, and minutes?
Identify the pronoun(s) in the following sentence:
"When Jim's lawnmower broke, the neighbors let him use theirs."
What are him and theirs?
Identify the adjective(s) in the following sentence:
"Yesterday, Mrs. Blue thoughtfully assigned two brief assignments."
What are two and brief?
Identify the verb phrase(s) in the following sentence:
"The speaker was annoyed because the microphone wasn't working properly."
What is "was?"
"A competent woodworker needs a number of tools for the job."
Is "competent" an adjective or adverb?
What is an adjective?
Identify the nouns in the following sentence:
"There was a scream of skidding tires and then a metallic thud, followed by the sound of splintered glass."
What are scream, tires, thud, sound, and glass?
Identify the pronoun(s) in the following sentence:
"The player injured himself playing football, but his coach made him play anyway."
What are himself, his, and him?
Identify the adjective(s) in the following sentence:
"As the striped balloon soared higher, we gripped the supports tightly with our hands."
What is striped?
Identify the verb phrase(s) in the following sentence:
"Katie had been writing when her friend showed up with dinner."
What is "had been writing?"
"Large steamers sailed fairly easily from Duluth to Detroit."
Is "fairly" and "easily" an adjective or adverb?
What is an adverb?
Identify the nouns in the following sentence:
"There is a fine exhibition of paintings by Thomas Hart Benton at the Cleveland Public Library."
What are exhibition, paintings, Thomas Hart Benton, and Cleveland Public Library?
Identify the pronoun(s) in the following sentence:
"There is something over there; I don't know what it is, but it scares me."
What are I, it, and me?
Identify the adjective(s) in the following sentence:
"The four children tried hard to please their wonderful mother on her fortieth birthday."
What are four, wonderful, and fortieth?
Identify the verb phrase:
"You should have gone with your dad, but since you didn't, you will be stuck here with me."
What are "should have gone" and "will be stuck"?
"A major problem has unfortunately been the additional traffic along the East coast."
Is "unfortunately" an adjective or adverb?
What is an adverb?
Identify the nouns in the following sentence:
"The festival began with the traditional song of the nation."
What is festival, song, and nation?
Identify the pronoun(s) in the following sentence:
"The book that you gave me was really interesting; I can't wait to pass it on to someone who will like it just as much as I did."
What are you, me, I, and it?
Identify the adjective(s) in the following sentence:
"Many respected doctors consider skydiving an unnecessary, dangerous sport.
What are respected, unnecessary, and dangerous?
Identify the verb phrase(s) in the following sentence:
"I will always expect your best in class, so you should work hard."
What are "will expect" and "should work"?
"Rubbing with abrasive sandpaper makes surfaces smooth enough for the last step in the process."
Is "abrasive" an adjective or adverb?
What is an adjective?