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Nouns
- a person, place, thing, idea, or emotion
- Proper nouns = capitalized; Mrs. Sears,
Barack Obama
- Common nouns = not capitalized; lady,
dog
bridge
Murfreesboro
Australia
book
French, Spanish
woman
Hollister, American
Eagle
Verbs
• Express action or a state of being
• Three types: action, linking, and helping
• Action – shows physical or mental activity
• Linking – shows a state of being; pg. 92-93
(SKIP A LINE!!)
• Helping – helps the main verb; pg. 96
Pg. 94, 1-10; identify the action &
linking verbs
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Verbs
• A verb phrase contains a main verb and one
or more helping verbs
Examples? could have seen, is running, should
have known
Prepositions
- a word that shows the relationship
of a noun/pronoun to another word
- Anything a skunk can do to a log
- pg. 104
Challenge!
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noun, verb
noun, preposition
Proper noun, linking verb
Helping verb, noun, preposition
Noun, verb, preposition, linking
verb, helping verb, proper noun
DLA Week of 8.20.12
1. His archaic lap-top took almost 32 minutes
to turn on and his archaic laptop was green
2. When you text message do you ever uses
asteriks, what the approximate number of
texts you send per month?
Prepositional Phrases
- Begins with a preposition and end
with a noun
- Examples? On the floor, across the
street
- No noun after = adverb
Adverbs
- modifies a verb, adjective, or other
adverb
- Sometimes end in ‘ly’; answers to
what extent and where/when/how
- Pg. 100-101
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She quickly ran to the back of the room.
They once lived in the brick house.
She often feels ignored by her friends.
He is extremely eager to play football.
We were later forced to play Monopoly.
The community will never forget their
impact.
Conjunctions
- joins word or word groups
- Coordinating conjunctions =
FANBOYS
Interjections
- a word that expresses emotion
- Typically followed by an
exclamation point & can be
removed from the sentence
Adjectives
- a word that modifies a noun or a
pronoun
- Articles: a, an, the
- Demonstrative adjectives: this, that
these, those
1. The small child couldn’t find the red
swing set.
2. It is hard for her to get up in the morning.
3. Where is the world’s largest amusement
park?
4. The music folder was found underneath
the old piano.
5. Some people are very superstitious; they
do not like black cats or broken mirrors.
6. She seems happy about her high grade
on the math test.
1. The car belongs to the man
2. The dinner belongs to the family
3. The books of the students
4. The candy belongs to Jessica
5. The mess of the dogs
6. The painting belongs to the woman
7. The homework of Mike
Plurals: Do you remember these
rules?!
- For numerals, symbols, and letters,
add – ‘s
- For nouns ending in – o, add - es
- tomatoes, heroes