Noun Definitions
A NOUN is a word used as the name of _____, _____, _____, ________.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea
dog
What is a noun?
What is a common noun?
Prounoun
What is a word used in place of a noun?
Verb
What are words in a sentence that describe what the subject is doing?
Find the verb:
Dmo wrote this quiz.
What is "wrote?"
Adjective
What describes a noun?
What gives specific descriptive information about a noun?
A Common Noun
What is: any noun that is NOT SPECIFIC person, place, thing, or idea.
What is NOT capitalized?
Teacher
what is a common noun
Find the pronoun: Brian pranked his grandmother.
What is "his"?
Action Verbs
What tells what the subject is doing?
What shows an action either physical or mental?
What brings the writing to life?
Identify the action verb:
The flowers were grown in Hawaii.
What is "grown?"
Adverb
What is a word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb?
Proper Noun
What is a SPECIFIC person, place, thing or idea?
What is capitalized?
Dmo
What is a proper noun?
Antecedent
What is the noun being replaced by the pronoun?
Linking Verbs
What are words that connect (link) the subject (noun) with some other word or words in the sentence?
Identify the linking verb:
This quiz must have been hard to write.
What is "must have been?"
Identify the adjective:
The book was exciting.
What is "exciting?"
Concrete Noun
What is a person, place, or thing that can be touched or seen?
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
What is a concrete noun?
What is a proper noun?
Find the antecedent:
Brian pranked his grandmother.
Helping Verbs
What makes the verb more specific?
What helps to form the voice of the main verb?
What never stands alone?
Identify the helping verb:
The flowers were grown in Hawaii.
What is "were?"
Identify the adverb:
Otis was snoring loudly.
What is "loudly?"
Abstract Noun
What is something that you think or feel, but cannot touch or see?
Happiness
What is an abstract noun?
Name the pronoun and the antecedent:
The dog stopped three times to use the bathroom which made his owner upset.
What is "his" as the pronoun?
What is "dog" as the antecedent?
I am ______.
She is ______.
He will _______.
They have _______.
What are linking and helping verb sentence starters?
Identify the action verb, linking verb, and helping verb:
Dmo was excited about vacation, but she had been nervous about leaving school.
What is "excited" as the action verb?
What is "was" as the linking verb?
What is "had been" as the helping verbs?
Identify the adverb and adjective:
Dmo sneakily placed the metallic sharpies in the drawer so they were out of sight.
What is "sneakily" as the adverb?
What is "metallic" as the adjective?