- Modifies a verb
- Tells how the verb is acting or
how it acted
- Usually ends in "ly"
- Answers the question of "how, where, when, or to what extent?"
Examples of Adjectives
Grammar
- The blue car
- The school was huge!
- Her shirt was very bright
- There is an essential matter we need
to discuss
- Peter guessed the right number
- An adjective is the part of speech that modifies a noun or pronoun
- Answers "how is it described?"
- Can describe color, size, how something looks, how something feels, or ANY description / describing words
Parts of Speech
Verb:
State of Being
Examples of Verbs
Examples
Connects subject to word that describes the subject
- I am cold
- The book is good
- She was there
Proper Noun
- I ran to school
- I read a book yesterday
- He played golf
- She slept for eight hours
- I go to Walled Lake Northern High School
- George Washington was our first president
Were
Would
Shall
Have
Has
Had
Be
Being
Been
Do
Does
Did
Common Noun
May
Might
Must
Can
Could
Am
Is
Are
Was
Were
- I go to a school
- We have had many presidents
1.) An action word
2.) Is a state of being and says
what the subject does
3.) Answers "what is the action or state of being?"
Part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Answers the question of "who, what, or where?"
- Proper Noun: Names a specific person, place, thing, or idea.
- George Washington
- Central High School
- Common Noun: General nouns
- interjection
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Pronoun
- Nouns
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Adverbs
Grammar
Parts of Speech
An exclamation that expresses an emotion. Usually used in dialogue, this can be any aside or interruption.
Examples of Adverbs
Examples of
Predicates
When?
- I went to the movies yesterday
- There's a snow day tomorrow
How?
Where?
- He lives over there
- I would go anywhere with you
- She ran quickly to the bus
- The turtle moved slowly
- He spoke quietly
- The student rode the bus to school
- The glacier melted, broke off, and then fell into the ocean
- Children grow older every day
- The horses appear to be well groomed
To What Extent (how often)?
- He exercises often
- The teacher reads every day
- I never lie
Adverb
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- Part of the sentence that contains the verb, it's modifiers (adjective or adverb) and what the subject is doing.
- Tells what the subject is doing.
- A sentence can be broken into a subject and predicate
- Think of it as a "verb phrase"
- Pronouns replace nouns
- Without them, we'd have to keep on repeating names of people, places, or things.
- A word that comes before or after a noun to show a nouns spatial relationship to another word
- Describes "anywhere a mouse can go"
- Join words or groups of words together
- Usually takes the place of a comma or period
- Most common examples
- He, she, him, her, they, it
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- The ball flew above the house
- The plane went over the house
- The book is under the chair
- The mouse ran between the pipes
- The student stood near the door
- The bird flew through the window
- The fireman slid down the pole
- The rabbit jumped onto the chair
- After Brian went to practice, he ate dinner
- The girls went to English and then they
went to lunch.
- When asked what color we should paint the house, he said, paint it blue
- How's Florida you ask? It's really hot there.
- Which book? This is the book I was referring to.