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Multi Sensory Grammar
Color Coding Sentences
Nouns
• Nouns-They tell us things. They are the
names of people, places, things, or ideas.
They are colored yellow just as a yellow
school crossing sign tells drivers to be
aware of students that might be crossing
the road.
Nouns can be proper (Cache) or common
(city). They can also be collective (team),
abstract (love), or concrete (book).
Verbs
• Verbs – Show action or state of being.
They tell you what is happening, so they
are colored orange just like a detour sign.
There are three types of verbs we will
learn about this year: action verbs,
helping verbs and linking verbs. You will
be receiving a list of helping and linking
verbs.
Articles
• These three little words (a, an, the) are
used often in the English language. Just as a
red light warns of a railroad crossing, these
words warn THERE’S A NOUN COMING!!!!
They are color coded red and a red arrow
goes from the noun marker to the noun it
modifies (describes).
Adjectives
• Adjectives (Ad-nouns)- Adjectives
modify (describe) nouns. They answer
the following 5 questions :
• –Which one? What kind? How many?
How much? Whose?
• They are color coded blue and have a
blue arrow going from the adjective to
the noun it is modifying.
Prepositions
• Prepositions –They are used to show the
relationship between two things. A person
can be on the house, in the house, by the
house, past the house, near the house, etc.
These are all prepositional phrases.
• A prepositional phrase begins with a
preposition and ends with either a noun or
pronoun. The preposition is underlined in
green and the entire prepositional phrase is
circled in green.
Pronouns
• Pronouns – Pronouns are noun
replacements. They take the place of a
noun so they are yellow just as nouns
are yellow.
• There are many types of pronouns
such as indefinite, personal, reflexive
and intensive.
Adverbs
• Adverbs – Take the word adverb apart and
you will find what it modifies. It can modify
adjectives, verbs, or other adverbs.
• For our study the adjectives will usually
modify the verb.
• Not and very are always adverbs.
• Many adverbs end in –ly.
• Adverbs answer the questions – How?
When? Where? To what extent?
• Adverbs are color coded purple and have a
purple arrow going from them to the word
that they modify.
Conjunctions
• Conjunctions- Conjunctions join word,
phrases, and clauses together.
• The most common conjunctions are
and, but, and or.
• These are color coded brown just like a
wooden peg that holds things together.
Interjections
• Interjections – Interjections are words
that show strong emotion.
• There is no relationship between them
and the sentence that comes before or
after them.
• Since they do not have an important
function within a sentence, they are
not color coded.