Nouns & Adjectives
What is a noun?
What is a pronoun?
A word that replaces a noun
What is a preposition?
a word that shows relation to other words in the sentence.
anything a plane can do to a cloud
What is an adverb?
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb
what is a verb?
Action or state of being
What is an adjective?
a word that describes a noun
Identify the pronoun in the following sentence:
I went to the mall.
I
identify the preposition:
She ran around the block.
around
What is a conjunction?
A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses
What are the five linking verbs?
am, is, are, was, were
What are the three questions that adjectives answer?
Which one? What Kind? How many?
Identify the pronouns in the following sentence:
She wanted to go with them, but they were going too late.
she, them, they
identify the preposition:
It was in her purse the entire time.
in
Identity the 7 conjunctions
FANBOYS
for and nor but or yet so
Identify the verb
She swam quickly.
swam
Identify the noun(s) and adjective(s) in the sentence.
The tall boy in the orange jacket won the race yesterday.
nouns: boy, jacket, race
adjectives: tall, orange
Replace the underlined section with a pronoun.
Kelsey and Colin are brother and sister.
they
identify the prepositions:
I went with her to the mall.
to and with
What three questions to adverbs answer?
How? when? where?
identify the verbs:
The plants quickly grew to 2 feet tall.
grew
Identify the noun(s) and adjective(s) in the sentence.
While I was walking down 5th avenue, I saw three people wearing the same bright, yellow coat!
Nouns: avenue, people, coat
Adjectives: 5th, three, bright, yellow
replace the italicized words with the correct pronoun
Erinn, Megan, and I all played soccer together.
identify the prepositions:
Dorthy was with Toto when they went over the rainbow.
with, over
identify the adverb and conjunction:
She hit the ground hard, but she got up quickly.
hard, but, quickly
I was with her a few days ago.