1. Ms. McDaniel 6th Grade Language Arts
EXAM REVIEW
Ms. McDaniel
6th Grade
Language Arts

2. Unit 8-Sentences Sentence-expresses a complete thought
Kinds of Sentences
Declarative
General statement
Interrogative
Ask a question
Exclamatory
Expresses strong feeling
Imperative
Gives a command

3. Unit 8 Continued Two Part to a sentence
Subject-tells who or what the sentence is about.
Predicate-tells what the subject is or is doing.
Subject and Predicate can be compound meaning it can have more than one.

4. Unit 9 Nouns Nouns names a person, place, or thing. Two kinds of nouns
Common
Any person, place, or thing
Proper
Names a particular person, place, or thing

5. Unit 9-Forms of nouns Singular Plural Collective Possessive one
More than one
Collective
A group
Possessive
Show ownership

6. Unit 10 Verbs
Three kinds of verbs
Action
Linking
Helping Verb Phrase

7. Action Verbs
Action verb is a word that describes what the subject is doing.
2 objects follow action verbs
Direct object
Receives the action of the verb
Tell whom or what the action was done
Indirect object
Appears only in a sentence with a direct object
Tells for whom or to whom the action was done
Always comes before the direct object

8. Linking Verbs
Linking verbs connects a sentence’s subject with a noun or adjective in the predicate
2 predicate words follow linking verbs
Predicate Noun
Tell what the subject is
Predicate adjective
Tells what the subject is like

9. + = Helping Verb Phrase ACTION LINKING Helping Verb Phrase
Helps the main verb express action
Helping verb phrase is made up of the linking verb plus the action verb
ACTION
LINKING + =
Helping Verb Phrase

10. Verb Tenses Present-may end with (s) Past-ends with (ed)
Describes an action that is happening now
Past-ends with (ed)
Describes an action that has already happened
Future-(has the helper will or shall with the before the action verb)
Describes an action that will or shall happen

11. Participles and Verb Forms
Present participle
Past participle
Present Progressive
Past Progressive
Present perfect tense
Past perfect tense

12. Unit 11-Pronouns Pronouns takes the place of a noun
4 kinds of pronouns
Indefinite pronouns
Does not refer to a particular person, place, or thing
Possessive pronoun
Shows who or what has something
Subject pronoun
Used as the subject
Object pronoun
Used as a direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition

13. Unit 12-Adjectives Adjectives describes a noun or pronoun
Answers 3 questions
Which one
What kind
How many
Proper adjective-adjectives formed by proper nouns and are always capitalized
Adjectives that compare
Comparative-compares two things
Ends with -er
Superlative-compares more than two
Ends with -est
Special Adjectives
Articles-a, an and then
Demonstratives- this, that, these, and those

14. Unit 13-Adverbs
Adverbs describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
Usually end with (-ly)
Answers 3 questions
When
Where
How
Adverbs that compare
Comparative-compares two things
Superlative-compares more than two

15. Unit 13 continued Telling adjectives and adverbs apart
If the word follows a linking verb then it is an adjective
Ex. Tom was happy at the movies.
adjective
If the word follows an action verb then it is an adverb
Ex. Tom lives happily in New York.
adverb

16. Double Negatives
Do not express the words “no” or “not” in the same sentence. They mean the same exact thing, which is NO!

17. Unit 14 Prepositions, Interjections, Conjunctions
Prepositions are location words that tell a time or a place
Prepositional phrases starts with a preposition and ends with an object(noun or pronoun)
Interjections-express strong feelings
Conjunctions-joins words or groups of words in a sentence
2 kinds of conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions
And-introduces an idea
But-introduces a contrasting idea
Or-gives you a choice
Correlative conjunctions works in pairs
either/ or
Neither/nor
Both/And

18. Good Luck on the EXAM!!!