2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Parts of Speech PunctuationVerbals Prepositional Phrases Adjective or Adverb

What are nouns?

A person, place, or thing.

What are the types of nouns?

Common, proper, concrete, abstract, collective, and compound.

What is a collective noun?

Persons, animals, and things.

What are the three principal parts of the verb?

Present, past, and past participle.

What are the types of adjectives?

Proper, common, demonstrative, and compound.

How can you use apostrophes?

In contractions, in place of some words, to form some plurals, and to form singular possessives.

Whats wrong with this sentence?

It needs an apostrophe, What’s.

What’s wrong with the sentence below? people are hurt!

It needs commas, 1,000,000.

What do the semicolons do in a sentence?

They combine two sentences into one.

Why use colons?

To list objects in a sentence.

What are verbals?

Words that are verbs, but are used as other parts of speech.

What are some examples of a verbal? a) Gerunds b) participles c) Infinitives d) all of the above

d) All of the above

What do the verbals that are in a sentence do?

They help describe what’s going on better than it already is.

What is the definition for gerunds?

-ing & nothing that describes the word.

What is the gerund in the sentence below? Fishing is fun.

Fishing is the gerund.

What is an example of a prepositional phrase? In the barn, etc.

Sample answer: into the air

Is a preposition always a preposition?

No; it can be an adverb.

What is in a prepositional phrase?

A preposition at the beginning and an object at the end.

How many times can you find a prepositional phrase in a sentence?

Three to four times or more.

Can prepositional phrases add on to nouns? Yes or No

Yes

What are adjectives?

The describe the noun.

What is an adverb?

They modify verbs.

What are some examples of adverbs?

Soon, sooner, soonest, etc.

What are some examples of adjectives?

Jumping, jumped, etc.

Use both adverb and adjective in a sentence.

The sooner my mom got to the car, my sisters cried louder.