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. A verb tells of an action or a state of being. • State of being. Action Verbs: • Explode! Scream! Sneeze! Text! Kick! What are these words doing? They are expressing action, something that a person, animal, force of nature, or thing can do. As a result, we call these words action verbs. Action verb examples: • Ex. Carlos watched pretty women in skimpy bikinis parading on the beach. • Watching is something that Carlos can do. • Ex. The alarm clock buzzed like an angry bumblebee. • Buzzing is something that the alarm clock can do. Linking Verbs • Linking verbs do not express action. Instead, they connect the subject of the verb (predicate) to additional information about the subject. Linking verbs tell of a state of being. • The most common linking verb is “To be” (and all of its forms). Other linking verbs include appear, feel, grow, look, prove, remain, smell, sound, taste. (Sometimes these verbs are linking verbs; sometimes they are action verbs.) WHAT!? (Before you freak out, see the next slide!) Huh? How do you tell when they are action verbs and when they are linking verbs? • appear, feel, grow, look, prove, remain, smell, sound, taste. (Sometimes these verbs are linking verbs; sometimes they are action verbs.) • If you can substitute am, is, or are and the sentence still sounds logical, you have a linking verb on your hands. – The rose smells beautiful. (The rose is beautiful.) Because “is” can replace “smells”, “smells” is a linking verb – She smells the pizza. (She is the pizza.) Huh…doesn’t make sense, so in this case “smells” is an action verb. Schoolhouse Rock- Verbs • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrIJpI5y h0 Do the Verbs practice sheet yo. Adjectives Adjectives: • Tell you about, or describe, a NOUN or PRONOUN. Adjectives tell you about: • What kind: – Ex. Big, blue, round, short, spectacular • How many: – Ex. A, ten, lots, some, several, one • Which ones: – Ex. That, those, his, hers, their, your, its, the • One, big, robust pig ate those rotten beets. Please note: • Articles (a, an, the) are considered adjectives. • To help you find adjectives… – Find the noun(s) and pronoun(s) in a sentence and ask yourself if there are any words describing them. • Ex. Your dog ate my baseball hat. – “Your” is telling us about which specific dog is being discussed. – At first glance, you might be tempted to say baseball is a noun, but upon closer inspection, we see that, in this case, the word baseball actually describes the noun hat. Therefore, baseball is an adjective in this sentence. Schoolhouse Rock- Adjectives • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuuZEey _bs Do the adjectives practice sheet yo. Adverbs Adverbs • Describe, or modify, VERBS, ADJECTIVES, or other ADVERBS. • Adverbs tell you: – How- secretly, quickly, carefully – When- then, later, finally – Where- nearby, underground, here – To what extent- often, deep, never Examples • An adverb modifying a verb: • “Chefs plan their meals carefully.” (carefully modifies the verb plan.) • An adverb modifying an adjective – “Vegetables provide very important nutrients.” (very modifies the adjective important.) • An adverb modifying another adverb – “She sang more beautifully tonight than last night.” (“more” modifies the adverb beautifully, beautifully modifies the verb sang.) FYI • Many, but not all, adverbs end in “ly”. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZ56XhS Arg Do the adverbs practice sheet yo. Conjunctions Conjunctions: • Conjunctions, as their name implies, are joining words, they are the ties, that bind together day AND night, calm BUT cold, dull YET bright. • A conjunction joins together words, phrases, or clauses. • (co-ordinating conjunctions= FANBOYS!) – for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Examples: • Conjunction joining words: – Many children like cookies and milk. (“and” joins together “cookies” and “milk”) • Conjunction joining phrases: – The boys were going to the lake or to the park. (“or” joins the phrases “to the lake” and “to the park”) • Conjunction joining clauses: – What you say and what you do are different. (“and” joins together the clauses “what you say” and “what you do”) Conjunction Junction! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRRcymG rSaE&feature=fvst Prepositions Prepositions • Prepositions are the words that indicate location. Usually, prepositions show this location in the physical world. – The puppy is on the floor. – The puppy is in the trash can. – The puppy is beside the phone • Prepositions can also show location in time. – At midnight, Jill craved mashed potatoes with grape jelly. – In the spring, I always plant tomatoes. – Iggy's legs complained with sharp pains shooting up his thighs during the marathon. Examples of prepositions: about above • according to across after against along along with among apart from around as as for at because of before behind below beneath beside between beyond but* by by means of concerning despite down during except for from round since through throughout till to toward under underneath unlike until up upon up to with within without Sweet Preposition Song • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byszemY8 Pl8