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EXAM REVIEW
Ms. McDaniel
6th Grade
Language Arts
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
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.
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
Unit 9-Forms of nouns
• Singular
– one
• Plural
– More than one
• Collective
– A group
• Possessive
– Show ownership
Unit 10 Verbs
• Three kinds of verbs
–Action
–Linking
–Helping Verb Phrase
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
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
Helping Verb Phrase
• Helps the main verb express action
• Helping verb phrase is made up of
the linking verb plus the action verb
Verb Tenses
• Present-may end with (s)
– 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
Participles and Verb
Forms
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Present participle
Past participle
Present Progressive
Past Progressive
Present perfect tense
Past perfect tense
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
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
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
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.
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adjective
– If the word follows an action verb then
it is an adverb
• Ex. Tom lives happily in New York.
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adverb
Double Negatives
• Do not express the
words “no” or “not” in
the same sentence. They
mean the same exact
thing, which is NO!
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
•Good Luck on
the EXAM!!!