Parts of Speech
What part of speech adds to the description of a verb?
Adverb
Which punctuation mark must we put at the beginning and ending of a person speaking?
Quotation Marks
Season: Year:: day:_______
A) Bay
B) Hour
C) Week
Week
In the sentence:
Sadly, the soccer team came home without a trophy.
Which word is preposition?
Without
Janice listed these as the parts of speech she had learned:
A, Adj, Adv, Prep, Pro, C, N, V.
What is her error?
Article Adjectives are not their own thing. They belong to the adjective family.
Which part of speech shows position either physical or in time?
Preposition
In the sentence: "What are you doing" asked Gwen,
Where do I put the question mark?
After "doing" inside the quotation mark.
a) Crust
b) Sunk
c) Stink
Stink
In the sentence:
Sadly, the soccer team came home without a trophy.
What part of speech is the word "sadly?"
Which question does it answer?
Adverb, how
Rick marked the following sentence as "E." What is his error?
Can you leap across that ditch and land on the other side?
Which three words hook up words, phrases, and clauses and what are they called?
And, or, but, conjunctions
In the sentence, "What are you doing" asked Gwen,
Where should you place the period?
After the word Gwen.
What is the ANTONYM for fiction:
Hesitate or Biography?
Biography
*** Daily Double****
Is the following sentence a natural or inverted order sentence?
Sadly, the soccer team came home without a trophy.
Which words are part of the predicate?
Inverted, "sadly, came home without a trophy"
Andrea made some mistakes when listing the parts of speech she knew. Identify the incorrect marks.
P, OP, SN, V, Adv, A, Adj, HV, C, P
***Daily Double*** This part of speech is a small part of the verb phrase that usually expresses something that is happening now or will in the future. Have, has, had, am, is, was are examples.
Helping Verbs
In the sentence: "Jennifer where did you put the ice cream?" Where does the comma belong and why?
After Jennifer because her name is a noun of direct address.
In the sentence:
Can you leap across that ditch and land on the other side?
Which word is the helping verb?
Can
Vanessa was correcting some dialogue and added these marks:
"Linda said, "Please put your pencils in the box.""They need to be sharpened."
But Ms. Linda," Andy cried, I don't have any pencils."
What were her errors? (There are 5)
No quotes before "Linda," too many in the sentence, needs them after "cried" and "but."
What are the seven subject pronouns?
I, he, she, we, it, they, you
"My mom and I went to the zoo.""We saw lots of cheetahs, lions, and monkeys." Sheila said, excitedly. "We also saw bears and giraffes.""My mom even let us eat at the little cafe there."
Which quotation marks are necessary?
Before My, after monkeys, before We, after there
I read a great _______ on Abe Lincoln.
Biography
In the sentence:
Can you leap across that ditch and land on the other side?
What is the verb(s)? How do we mark it?
Leap and land, CV
Identify the error:
Indirect: Mindy said she is going to Paris.
Direct: Mindy said, "She is going to Paris."
She needs to be changed to I