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DGP – SENTENCE 2
Parts of Speech
SENTENCE / WORD BANK
“Ferdinand,”
cried Mercedes,
“I believed you were goodhearted, and I was mistaken!”
Word
Bank: action verb (2),
coordinating conjunction (1),
linking verb (2), participle (2),
pronoun (3), proper noun (2)
COMPARE
Compare
your answers to
your neighbor’s answers to
see if you identified the same
action verbs.
“I
labeled ________ as an
action verb because
__________.”
CORRECT ANSWER
“Ferdinand,”
cried Mercedes,
“I believed you were goodhearted, and I was mistaken!”
Ferdinand, Mercedes = proper
nouns (names a specific noun)
cried, believed = action verbs
(shows action)
I, you, I = pronouns (takes the
place of a noun)
CORRECT ANSWER
“Ferdinand,”
cried Mercedes, “I
believed you were good-hearted,
and I was mistaken!”
were, was = linking verbs (links a
noun to an adjective or to another
noun)
good-hearted, mistaken =
participles (verb acting like an
adjective)
and = coordinating conjunction
(joins words, phrases, and
clauses)