Pronouns
Subjective, Objective, or Possessive
Carter sat with US during the field trip.
What is objective?
The figure of speech used in the text is a/an?
The audience at the 2012 Olympics cheered as, with Herculean effort, Kim Un-Guk of North Korea set an Olympic record by lifting a 153-kilogram weight.
What is an allusion?
The narrator uses ______ point of view in the passage.
My phone is waiting on top of the pile of dirty clothes, right where it landed when I chucked it at the wall early Sunday morning because the constant ringing was making me crazy and I was too tired to turn it off.
What is 1st person?
A synonym in the sentence for the capitalized word is ____.
Mrs. Carter will ANNOUNCE the winner of the essay contest today. Next week, the principal will declare the grand prize winner.
What is declare?
Sarah left her backpack over ______ by the classroom door.
What is there?
My math teacher and ____ designed a joint research project.
What is I?
The figure of speech used in this text is _________.
"There's nothing I love more than skipping lunch," Mr. Brock told the flight attendant when he learned that no food would be available on his cross-country flight.
What is verbal irony?
The narrator is using _______ point of view.
Gary Fulcher grabbed his arm as he went by. "Gonna run today?" Jess nodded. Gary smirked. He thinks he can beat me, the dumbhead. At the thought, something jiggled inside Jess. He knew he was better than he had been last spring. Fulcher might think he was going to be the best, now that Wayne Pettis was in sixth, but he, Jess, planned to give old Fulcher a le-etle surprise come noon.
From Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia. Copyright 1977 by Katherine Paterson
What is 3rd person?
A synonym in the sentence for the capitalized word is ____.
Does it BOTHER you when students are playing games on their chromebook while you are teaching? When I'm teaching, mind numbing clicker games disturb me.
What is disturb?
All of the students placed _____ books neatly on the desk before starting the lesson.
What is their?
The NBA player gave my best friend and _____ his autograph.
What is me?
The figure of speech used in the text is a/an _____.
I thought I'd forgotten how to play with a boomerang, but then it came back to me.
What is a pun?
The narrator uses ______ point of view.
Here you come, better late than never: a face presentation. Not the boy your father so desperately wanted, but here you come, anyway, all six pounds three ounces of you. Button nose, conical head, good color. A swirl of dark hair atop your little crown. And a healthy pair of lungs, too.
From Jonathan Evison, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! Copyright 2015 by Jonathan Evison
What is 2nd person?
The antonym to the all capitalized word is____.
Gideon was FORTUNATE to get the last popcorn snack. Gabe was one of the unlucky ones who got stuck with stale cheetos.
What is unlucky?
Addison went ___ the library after school to borrow some new books for her project.
What is to?
Even though Rosie's story was absurd, Christian and ____ found it entertaining.
What is I?
The simile suggests______.
The president said that his belief in freedom of expression is as solid as the ground we stand on.
What is the president's belief in freedom of expression is firm and unwavering.
The narrator uses ______ point of view.
It is June 1959. You are twelve years old, and in one week you and your sixth-grade classmates will be graduating from the grammar school you have attended since you were five. It is a splendid day, late spring in its most lustrous incarnation, sunlight pouring down from a cloudless blue sky, warm but not too warm, scant humidity, a soft breeze stirring the air and rippling over your face and neck and bare arms.
From Paul Auster, Winter Journal. Copyright 2012 by Paul Auster
What is 2nd person?
The word _______ means the same as leaving out.
You can usually improve your writing by omitting necessary words. Instead of writing largin size, you could just write large.
What is omitting?
Yates wanted to go ___ the movies ____, because he also loves sports films.
What is to and too?
Correct the innapropriate pronoun shift.
Brooks loves to put chocolate chips in almost everything. He especially loves to sprinkle it in his ice cream.
What is change it to THEM?
The metaphor in the text suggests _____.
Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.
—Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
What is laughter can brighten people's moods.
The author uses ______ point of view in the passage.
I like the sound of Rowdy's laughter. I don't hear it very often, but it's always sort of this avalanche of ha-ha and ho-ho and hee-hee. I like to make him laugh. He loves my cartoons. He's a big, goofy dreamer, too, just like me.
From Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Copyright 2007 by Sherman Alexie
What is first person?
The word ________ means an idea believed to be true.
Around 1514 astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus questioned the doctrine that Earth occupied the center of the universe. In 1543 he published a book explaining his observations. Most people discounted him, until years later when scientists affirmed that planets to orbit the sun.
What is affirmed?
The students quickly gathered _____ library books and headed over ______, excited to explore _____favorite books and stories.
What is their, there, and their?