Parts of Speech
Spring is my favorite time of year.
What part of speech is favorite?
What is an adjective.
Name the brushstroke in the sentence.
Mr. Tabby, our cat, loved to sneak out at night.
Mr Tabby= our cat
Where does the comma belong?
The girl ate a hot dog but her brother decided to choose a piece of pizza.
The girl ate a hot dog, but her brother decided to choose a piece of pizza.
A paragraph should be at least ____ to _____ sentences.
What is 6 to 8?
What is a time you need a COMMA when writing other than compound sentences or brushstrokes?
What are: dates, letter writing, long math numbers, towns/states/countries, adjectives or nouns in a series?
The trees bloom throughout the month of April.
What is the VERB in this sentence?
What is BLOOM?
The sunset, pink and orange, dipped into the ocean.
What is adjectives out of order?
Pink and orange are shifted AFTER the noun
Do you need a comma? If yes, where? If no, why not?
I love to put on old records and practice my dance moves.
NO!
There are not two independent sentences- so no comma needed.
You must always _______ at the start of a new paragraph.
What is INDENT?
What are two elements you need for a fairy tale to be a fairy tale?
What are: magic, patterns of 3 or 7. poverty vs riches, royalty, talking animals, good vs evil, castles, enchanted woods?
I ran quickly out the door to find my mother.
What is the ADVERB in this sentence?
What is QUICKLY?
The bell clanged as the people filed in.
What is ACTION VERB?
CLANGED and FILED
Do you need a comma or a semicolon in this sentence? Where?
The firefighters put out the fire just in time the roof collapsed right after their hoses gave out.
SEMICOLON
The firefighters put out the fire just in time; the roof collapsed right after their hoses gave out.
True or false:
The topic sentence should always share a specific fact about the topic being discussed.
What is FALSE?
The topic sentence should be a broad introduction. Save the specific details for the middle part of the paragraph.
What are three words you can spell out of the word
WATERMELON? You cannot use WATER or MELON. Your words have to be at least four letters long.
alter, rate, mate, wrote, name, tamer, mentor...list goes on and on.
Please lost three LINKING VERBS.
What are am, is, are, was, were, been, being, seem, sound, smell, taste, become?
Heart pounding, toes tapping, the musicians played their hearts out.
What is an absolute?
heart pounding, toes tapping
Name all of the Fanboys IN ORDER.
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
True or false:
The concluding sentence should always share new information not relevant to the topic.
What is FALSE?
Concluding sentences should WRAP UP the paragraph by restating what was introduced in the topic sentence.
Give me two words that come from the root: SPEC, SPECT
spectacle
spectate
inspect
prospect
respect
The juicy hamburgers cooked evenly over the open flame.
What is the complete predicate in this sentence?
What is cooked evenly over the open flame?
Dripping wet, the surfer fell down on the warm sand to rest.
What is a participle?
Dripping wet
True or false:
A compound sentence must have at least two subjects and two verbs.
CORRECT
Two independent sentences connected with a coordinating conjunction (FANBOY) or a semicolon.
If you are talking about a book title in your paragraph, you should _____________ or _____________ the title to make it clear.
What is underline, italicize, put in bold letters, capitalize first letters of title? (Pick two)
Edit this sentence- there are four mistakes:
The tall gentleman weared a long black cloak, his friends knew he was a wizard but they never asked his name, which was merlin.
The tall gentleman WORE a long black cloak; his friends knew he was a wizard, but they never asked his name, which was Merlin.
spelling, semicolon, comma, capital