Parts of Speech
What part of speech names an action?
Verbs
What is a direct object
Who or what receives an action
What is an adjective and name 2 examples
Words that describe or modify a noun
What is the subject in this sentence: Timon played with the hair ties on the table.
Timon
Identify the Compound Subject: Ms. Payan and Ms. Luca are both 9th grade English teachers.
Ms. Payan and Ms. Luca
These types of verbs have an object
Transitive Verbs
What is an indirect object
What is an adverb? And give 2 examples
Tells how something is done (how often, the extent that it's done to)
Everything that is not the subject (verb + details after the verb)
Identify the Compound Verb: Bennett played lacrosse and ran track for his high school at the varsity level.
Played lacrosse and ran track
What part of speech are these words: between, near, far, towards, to, inside, out, during, after
Prepositions
Identify the DIRECT object in the sentence: Sage made patients at the nursing home homemade cards every year for different holidays.
Cards
What does an Interjection do? Give 2 examples
No grammatical relation in a sentence but shows a reaction
Identify the Complete predicate here: Every year UConn hosts an ice cream contest where seniors get to create a new ice cream flavor to be sold at the Dairy Bar all spring.
hosts an ice cream contest where seniors get to create a new ice cream flavor to be sold at the Dairy Bar all spring
Identify the Subject, Verb, and Complement: For students' birthdays, Ms. Luca bakes a treat.
Subject: Ms. Luca
Verb: Bakes
Complement: For students' birthdays, a treat
What are conjunctions and what does FANBOYS stand for?
Connects words and ideas together.
For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So
Identify the INDIRECT object: Sage made patients at the nursing home homemade cards every year for different holidays.
patients at the nursing home
What is a linking verb?
Connects a subject to a description about it. Usually forms of the verb to be (is, are, was, were)
What is the simple subject: Every day Timon slept peacefully in the window, basking in the sunlight.
Timon
Identify the Subject Complements: Although many people thought Harrison was charming, he was actually disrespectful, aggressive, and sarcastic.
Charming, aggressive, and sarcastic
What is the difference between an abstract and concrete noun?
Abstract: feelings, characteristics, or ideas
Concrete: things you can experience with the 5 senses
What is an object complement?
Identify the Object Complement in this sentence: Sage made patients at the nursing home homemade cards every year for different holidays.
Modifies or describes a direct object
O.C.: homemade
What is a helping verb?
It is always paired with main verb. It specifically helps form a certain verb tense (Example: I had gone to that store before.)
What is a complement?
Something in the predicate of a sentence that adds more detail and meaning between the subject/verb relationship
Identify the Subject, Verb, and Complement:
In the park, two elegant swans swam in the pond.
Bonus 100 points if you can identify the two prepositions in this sentence!
Subject: Two elegant swans
Verb: Swam
Complement: In the park, in the pond
Prepositions: In