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Bellringers
English II
Eight Parts of Speech
Day One: Nouns
On a piece of loose leaf paper, please write the
title listed above on the top line.
Then, copy the following definitions:
Noun: a word used to name a person,
animal, place, thing, or abstract idea
Proper Noun: the name of a specific
person, animal, place or thing.
Common Noun: a word that refers to a
person, animal, place, or thing in a general
sense
Then, in a T-chart, list all the proper nouns and all the
common nouns you find in the sentences below.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO COPY DOWN THE SENTENCES.
(you should find 6 proper nouns and 6 common
nouns)
Did Maurice eat the brown rice off his plate?
Alice would love to go to Jamaica.
Mondays are my least favorite days of the week.
Jeremy was working in his garden.
His favorite restaurant was Macaroni Grill.
Day Two: Pronouns
Continuing underneath your last bellringer entry,
please write the title listed above so that I can see
the break between your two entries. IF YOU
WEREN’T HERE LAST CLASS, BE SURE TO COPY THE
BELLRINGER FROM A CLASSMATE.
Then, copy the following definitions:
Pronoun: a word that takes the place of a noun
Antecedent: the word the pronoun refers to
Then, in a T-chart, list the pronouns in the left column and
their antecedents in the right column from the sentences
below. YOU DO NOT NEED TO COPY DOWN THE
SENTENCES. (you should have a total of 5 words each)
Mari likes Italian food, but she doesn’t like Mexican food.
The dog knows how to swim, but it doesn’t like the water.
The girls love to play tennis, and they also love soccer.
Mark starred in the play, but it was a flop!
Students love English so much that they wish class was
every day.
Day Three: More Pronouns
Continuing underneath your last bellringer entry,
please write the title listed above so that I can see
the break between your two entries. IF YOU
WEREN’T HERE LAST CLASS, BE SURE TO COPY THE
BELLRINGER FROM A CLASSMATE.
Then, copy the following definitions:
1. Demonstrative pronoun- points out specific
persons, places, or things (this, that, these, those)
2. Indefinite pronoun- refers to persons, places, or
things in a more general way than a noun does
(all, another, any, both, each, either, everything,
few, many, most, none, etc.)
Continue copying:
3. Interrogative pronoun- used to form questions (who,
whom, whose, what, which)
4. Personal pronoun- refers to a specific person or thing
(I, you, she, he, it, me, her, him, his, my, your, its, we,
they, us, them, our , their)
DO NOT COPY THE FOLLOWING:
We went to her house and found those shoes.
Who said everything went well today?
That teacher liked both.
Which is their dog?
Day Four: Verbs
Continuing underneath your last bellringer entry,
please write the title listed above so that I can see
the break between your two entries. IF YOU
WEREN’T HERE LAST CLASS, BE SURE TO COPY THE
BELLRINGER FROM A CLASSMATE.
Then, copy the following definitions:
1. Action Verb- tells what someone or something does
(either physically or mentally)
2. Helping Verb- a verb that accompanies the main
verb to form a verb phrase
3. Linking Verb- expresses a state of being by joining
the subject of the sentence with a word that
identifies or describes the subject
Copy down the following sentences exactly. Then,
write off to the side of the sentence what type of
verb has been underlined.
1. I ran to the store.
2. That man is sweet.
3. Tory has been swimming today.
4. She does love that boy.
5. Tom jumped over the car.
6. He is our new principal.
Day Five: Adjectives
Continuing underneath your last bellringer entry…
Copy the following definitions:
1. Adjective- describes, identifies, modifies, or
quantifies a noun or pronoun (a, an, the= always
adjectives)
2. Predicate Adjective- follows a linking verb and
further identifies or describes the subject of the
sentence
3. Proper Adjective- an adjective that is formed
from a proper noun and is always capitalized
Copy down the following sentences exactly. Then,
underline all adjectives. Put a star next to the
sentences that contain predicate adjectives, and
put a smiley face next to the sentences that
contain proper adjectives.
1. The sour grapes made my lips pucker.
2. The man is sweet.
3. That foreign film was horrible.
4. I absolutely love Asian food.
5. He knows the Hungarian national anthem.