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English #2
Grades 4 to 8: Parts of Speech
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Common Noun | Noun that are general names for people, places, things, and ideas (town) |
| Proper Nouns | Noun that are specific names for people, places, things, and ideas (Sedalia) |
| Concrete Nouns | Nouns that name people, places, and things that you can see (ball) |
| Abstract Nouns | Nouns that are ideas, feelings, or questions (democracy) |
| Collective Nouns | Nouns that name groups of people, places, or things (committee) |
| Compound Nouns | Nouns made up of two or more words and may be one word, two words, or hyphenated words (baseball, electric guitar, jack-o'-lantern) |
| Possessive Nouns | Nouns that tell who are what owns something |
| Possession by one cat | Cat's cushion |
| Possession by more than one cat | Cats' cushion |
| First Person Singlular Personal Pronoun | I |
| First Person Plural Personal Pronoun | We |
| Second Person Singlular or Plural Personal Pronoun | You |
| Third Person Singlular Personal Pronouns | He, She, It |
| Third Person Plural Personal Pronouns | They |
| First Person Singlular Objective Personal Pronoun | Me (Give the ball to me.) |
| First Person Plural Objective Personal Pronoun | Us (Give the ball to us.) |
| Third Person Singlular Personal Objective Pronouns | Him, Her (Give the ball to him. Give the ball to her.) |
| Third Person Plural Personal Objective Pronouns | Them (Give the ball to them.) |
| First Person Singlular Possessive Pronoun | Mine (The ball is mine.) |
| First Person Plural Possessive Pronoun | Ours (The ball is ours.) |
| Second Person Singlular or Plural Possessive Pronoun | Yours (The ball is yours.) |
| Third Person Singlular Personal Possessive Pronouns | His, Her, Its (The ball is his. The ball is hers. The ball is its.) |
| First Person Singular Possessive Adjective | My (It is my ball.) |
| First Person Plural Possessive Adjective | Our (It is our ball.) |
| Second Person Singular Possessive Adjective | Your (It is your ball.) |
| Third Person Singular Possessive Adjectives | His, Hers, Its (It is his ball. It is her ball. It is its ball.) |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | This, That, These, Those |
| Indefinite Pronouns | All, any, anyone, both, each, either, every, everyone, everybody, many, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, other, several, some, somebody, someone, |
| Reflexive Pronouns | Refer back to the subject nouns (I did it myself.) |
| Intensive Pronouns | Pronouns that a reflexive, but refer back to the noun to emphasize it (We ourselves made the quilt.) |
| Interrogative Pronouns | Who, Whom, Whose, Which, What |
| Which interrogative pronoun is used in the objective case? | Whom (To whom should I address the letter?) |
| Linking Verbs | Verbs that connect noun or adjectives to the subject of the sentence. (Sara was happy.) |
| Helping Verbs | Verbs that "help" the main verb tell what happened in the past, is happening at present, or will happen in the future |
| How many helping verbs can a main verb have in one sentence? | 3 |
| Infinitive | Verb preceded by the word "to." May be used as a noun, verb, or adjective |
| Present Tense of a Verb | Happening now (The dog has fleas.) |
| Past Tense of a Veb | Happened before now (The dog had fleas.) |
| Future Tense of a Verb | Hasn't happened yet (The dog will get fleas.) |
| Present Perfect Tense of a Verb | Has started in the past and is continuing (The dog has had fleas.) |
| Past Perfect Tense of a Verb | Has finished before some other past action (The dog had had fleas for two years before he stopped scratching.) |
| Future Perfect Tense of a Verb | Action will start and finish in the future (The vet will have given all of the puppies a flea collar two months after they are born.) |
| Present Participles of Verbs | End in -ing and generally follow the helping verbs "for, to, and be" |
| Past Participles of Verbs | End in -ed or -en, or -d, -t, or -n and follow the helping verbs "have or had" |
| Regular Verbs | Verbs that can be changed from the present tense to the past tense by adding -ed or -d (walk, walked; help, helped) |
| Irregular Verbs | Verbs that can only be changed from the present tense to the past tense by changing the form of the present tense verb (do, did, done) |
| Questions adjectives answer | What kind of? How many? Which one? |
| Common Adjectives | Adjectives that do not require a capital letter; friendly, mean, big, small, blue, green, pretty, ugly, happy, sad, etc. |
| Proper Adjectives | Adjectives that require a capital letter; American, Spanish, Guatemalan, Canadian, Japanese, Asian, African, Victorian, etc. |
| Demonstrative Adjectives | This, that, these, those (This hat is Mike's. That book is Maria's. These boots are Micah's. Those glasses are Mary's.) |
| What are the three degrees of adjectives? | Positive: describes one thing. My outdoor cat, Morgana is fat; comparative: describes two things. Midnight is fatter than Morgana; Superlative: describes 3 or more things. Marissa is the fattest of our three cats.) |
| What are the three degrees of the adjective bad? | Bad, worse, worst |
| What are the three degrees of the adjective good? | Good, better, best |
| Questions adverbs answer | How? When? Where? To what degree or extent? |
| What is a common suffix used to make adjectives into adverbs? | -ly |
| Preposition | One-, two-, or three-words that introduce a prepositional phrase [on, in between, in addition to] |
| Questions prepositions answer | Where is something [in the car]? Where is something going [to the city]? When something is happening [in two days]? |
| Object of the prepositional phrase | Noun that generally end the prepositional phrase [in the house--house if the object of the preposition in] |
| Coordinating Conjunctions | FANBOYS [for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so] |
| Subordinating Conjunctions | Connect dependent clauses to independent clauses |
| Examples of Subordinating Conjunctions | Although, as as if, because, since, whenever, whereas, wherever, whether, while |
| Correlative Conjunctions | Always used in pairs in a phrase or sentence even though they are often split apart [The hungry child ate not only the chips but also the cookie.] |
| Examples of Correlative Conjunctions | both/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also, whether/or |
| Adverbial Conjunctions | Join clauses or sentences of equal importance [The milk was left on the counter overnight; consequently, it was too sour to use on my cereal.] |
| Examples of Adverbial Conjunctions | accordingly, besides, consequently, furthermore, hence, however, likewise, moreover, nevertheless, so,still, therefore, thus |
| Interjections | Words, phrases, and nonsense words that express strong feelings |
| Examples of Interjections | aha, ahem, alas, all right, eureka, gracious, hello, help, hey, oh, oops, ouch, phew, thanks, ugh, well, wow, yikes, yippee, yuck |
| Prepositional Phrases | under the bed, through the window, after the commercial, to the grocery store, on the computer, with the mouse, |
| Participial Phrases | One or two words that begin with a participial which is a verb ending in -ing; walking the dog, washing the dishes, asking questions, munching popcorn |
| Infinitive Phrases | Begin the word "to" followed by a verb; to go, to write, to verify, to care deeply; to boldly go where no one has gone before |
| Gerund Phrase | Verbs ending in -ing that function as a noun; Going to college is expensive. |
| Appositive | Way of renaming or clarifying a noun: Marissa, my cat, sleeps on my bed. "My cat" is the appositive set off by commas. |
| Subordinate Clauses | Dependent Clauses (do not make a "stand by itself" sentence) |
| Principal Clauses | Independent Clauses (do make a "stand by itself" sentence) |
| Example of a sentence with a simple subject | Sara ate ice cream for dessert. |
| Example of a sentence with a compound subject | Laura and Sara ate ice cream for dessert. |
| Micah drove his pickup to Smithton. | Example of a sentence with a simple predicate (verb) |
| Micah took the garbage to the compost pile and dumped the trash. | Example of a sentence with a compound predicate (verb) |
| Complete subject in this sentence: The St. John's Ice Cream Social is always on the last Sunday in June. | The St. John's Ice Cream Social |
| Complete predicate in this sentence: The St. John's Ice Cream Social is always on the last Sunday in June. | is always on the last Sunday in June |
| Which sentence is simple? a. The boys played baseball. b. After the game, the boys ran to the concession stand for drinks. | The boys played baseball. |
| Which sentence is compound (S V, conjunction S V)? a. After the game, the boys ran to the concession stand for drinks. b. The girls played baseball and they beat the other team. | The girls played baseball and they beat the other team. |
| Which sentence is complex? a. After the game, the boys ran to the concession stand for drinks. b. The boys played baseball. | After the game, the boys ran to the concession stand for drinks. |
| Example of three declarative sentences | a. Life is good. b. Maria is happy, but Kathleen is happier. c. I am almost finished with this set of English questions. |
| Example of three interrogative sentences | a. What is the puppy's name? b. Where did you attend high school? c. What is your favorite color? |
| Example of three imperative sentences | a. Do your homework. b. Wash the dishes. c. Drive to Versailles. |
| Example of three exclamatory sentences | a. I got the job! b. The Kansas City Royals won the World Series! c. The church is on fire! |
| What is the setting of a story? | Time and Place |
| Example of alliteration (repeated beginning of words) | She sells sea shells at the seashore. |
| Example of allusion | She runs her classroom like a prison camp. |
| Example of assonance (repeated vowel sounds) | The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle. |
| Example of cacophony (noisy or harsh combinations of sounds) | In my class we have to find real world examples of cacophony and; the cacophony produced by city traffic at midday is a perfect real world example. |
| Example of hyperbole | Old Mr. Smith has been teaching here since the Stone Age. |
| Which sentence uses imagery? a. Adam would not sit down at his desk. b. Adam's desk might well have been made of pins and needles. | Adam's desk might well have been made of pins and needles. |
| Meter | Rhythm made by stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
| Mood | Feeling of a story (happy, sad, gloomy, tense, scary, etc.) |
| Parable | A story with a moral or religious lesson to be learned. |
| Example of personification (giving inanimate things actions of people) | The cave yawned before me. |
| Cliches | Overused sayings that have lost their original meaning but have meaning to us. For example: After surgery, she was as weak as a kitten. |
| Idioms | Kirk: If we play our cards right, we may be able to find out when those whales are being released. Spock: How will playing cards help? (Captain James T. Kirk and Spock in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, 1986) |
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