1. What do these words have in common?
Animal
Movie
Plant
Country
Book
City
Game
Group
Person
Food
Building
Flower
Town
Tiger

2. What do these words have in common?
Bullfrog
Seattle
Tacos
Oak tree
Chicago
The Beatles
Where the Wild Things Are
Star Wars
Monopoly
Australia
George Washington
Empire State Building
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3. A noun is a person, place, thing, quality, or idea.
Nouns
A noun is a person, place, thing, quality, or idea.
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Keith Polette

4. Nouns Nouns can name people.
Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

5. Nouns Nouns can name places.
Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

6. Nouns Nouns can name things.
Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

7. Nouns Nouns can name a quality.
Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

8. Nouns Nouns can name ideas. Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

9. Nouns A noun can be either proper or common.
A proper noun names something specific.
A common noun names something general.
Write a sentence using both types of nouns.

10. Nouns Nouns can be either concrete or abstract.
A concrete noun can be examined with five senses.
An abstract noun cannot be examined with the five senses.
Write a sentence that uses both a concrete and abstract noun.

11. Nouns Nouns can be used as the subject of the sentence.
Write one sentence with a common noun as the subject.
Write one sentence with an abstract noun as the subject.

12. Nouns Nouns can be used as objects.
Nouns used as direct objects answer the question, WHAT.
Nouns used as indirect objects as the questions, TO WHOM or FOR WHOM.

13. Nouns Nouns can be used as objects.
Nouns used as objects of the preposition answer the question, WHAT.

14. What do these words have in common?
Pour
Laugh
Run
Toss
Skip
Catch
Soar
Sent
Swim
Walk
Drink
Open
Carry
Text

15. Verbs are the action or doing part of the sentence.
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Keith Polette

16. Action Verbs are… words that name an ACTION!
words that can express physical actions.
words that can express mental activities.

17. Action Verbs can be tricky when using…
have, has, or had.
These are action verbs when they name what the subject owns or holds.
Example:
The director has a script in her pocket.

18. Action Verbs examples…
Eugene O’Neill’s father, an actor, toured the country.
O’Neill learned about the theater from his father.
toured
learned

19. Action Verbs examples…
O’Neill’s father sent him to Princeton University.
Soon O’Neill developed an interest in the sea.
sent
developed

20. Action Verbs examples…
He left home for two years of travel.
Later, a drama teacher at Harvard University inspired O’Neill.
left
inspired

21. What do these words have in common?Am
Are Is
Was
Were
Have
Has
Had Do
Does
Did
Will
Shall Be
Being
Been
Could
Should
Would
May
Might
Must
Appear
Seem
Become
Became
Look
Remain

22. Linking Verbs…
connect the subject of a sentence with a noun or an adjective in the predicate.
Example:
Bess Powell was the director. N N
was

23. Active Voice… Occurs when the subject performs the action of the verb.
George Bernard Shaw wrote that play.
wrote

24. Passive Voice…
Occurs when the subject receives the action of the verb.
That play was written by George Bernard Shaw.
was written

25. Active/Passive Voice…
Pygmalion was written by George Bernard Shaw.
was written
Passive Voice

26. Active/Passive Voice…
Shaw’s play is based on an ancient Greek myth.
is based
Passive Voice

27. Active/Passive Voice…
Many people saw the play.
saw
Active Voice

28. Active/Passive Voice…
Critics gave it poor reviews
in the newspapers.
gave
Active Voice

29. Main Verbs and Helping Verbs…
A helping verb helps the main verb tell about an action or make a statement.

30. Common Helping Verbs… Am Is
Are
Was
Were
Have
Had
Has Be
Being
Been

31. Main Verbs and Helping Verbs…
The director had joined the crew later in the day, and now he is conducting his own last minute check.
had joined is
conducting

32. Main Verbs and Helping Verbs…
Emmy awards have been announced each year in the category for drama-comedy specials.
have
been announced

33. Main Verbs and Helping Verbs…
Live theater has experienced a surge in attendance.
has
experienced