Question | Answer |
What is a noun? | A person, place, thing or idea. |
What is a verb? | Tells what action someone or something is doing or expresses a state of being. |
A pronoun takes the place of a _____________ in a sentence. | noun |
What is an adjective? | Describes a noun or a pronoun. It tells what kind, how many, or which one. |
What are articles? | The words a, an, and the are special adjectives called articles; an article is used before a noun. |
What is an adverb? | Describes a verb, adjective, or adverb. It tells how, when, where, or to what extent. |
What is a preposition? | Describes a relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. |
What are conjunctions? | Coordinate conjunctions joins words or phrases in a sentence. FANBOYS = for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. |
What are interjections? | A word or phrase that expresses strong feeling or emotion. |
Many adverbs, but not all of them, end in the letters ___. | ly |
"I, you, he, she, it, they, them, me" are examples of ____________ that take the place of a noun in a sentence. | pronouns |
"Help!" is an example of an ___________________________. | interjection |
Words such as "from, over, to, up, until, after" are examples of _________________ that describe a relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. | prepositions |
A ___________________ noun is a type of noun that can be touched. | concrete |
____________________ nouns are nouns that can not be touched (5 senses cannot be used to detect them). | Abstract |
_______________ nouns are not capitalized because they are not specific nouns. | Common |
_____________________ nouns are always capitalized because they are specific places, people, or things. | Proper |
"And, but, or, and nor" are examples of _________________ which join words or phrases in a sentence. | coordinate conjunctions |
There are _____________ parts of speech. | 9 |