Language Arts Review
Nouns, Pronouns, Subjects, Objects, Prepositions, Adverbs, Verbs, Adjectives, Clauses, and Parts of Speech
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4 Types of Sentences:
Asking (Interrogative): Did the dog run down the street?
Telling/Statement (Declarative): The dog ran down the street.
Commanding (Imperative): Watch the dog run down the street.
Exclaiming (Exclamatory): Look out for the dog running down the street!
Noun: Person, Place, or Thing
Common nouns: dog, teacher, zoo
Proper nouns: Rover, Ms. Franzen, Atlanta Zoo
Subject / Predicate:
The subject tells the "who or what" in the sentence; the predicate tells you what the subject did:
Example: The dog and cat ran down the street.
Subject: The dog and cat
Predicate: ran down the street.
Adjective: An adjective describes (modifies) a noun.
Example: The shaggy dog and the furry cat ran down the winding road.
Adverb: An adverb describes (modifies) the verb.
Example: The shaggy dog and the furry cat ran quickly down the winding road.
Contractions:
do + not = don't
won't = will + not
Articles:
Articles are "special" adjectives that describe a noun - they imply that the number is one (and a number is an adjective).
Articles are: a, an, the
Examples:
I see a tree. ( the word 'a' implies one tree).
Do you see the dog? (the word 'the' implies one dog).
An elephant waded in the river. (the word 'an' implies one elephant).
Pronoun:A pronoun replaces a noun in a sentence.
Pronouns: he, she, it, they, we, I, you, us, we, our, ours, their, theirs, him, his, her, hers, them, its, mine, my, your, yours
Example: The girl and boy went to a movie. THEY went to a movie
Homophone/homonym/homograph: Words that often sound the same, but have different meanings, different sounds, and/or usually different spellings. We will focus mainly on homophones.
Homophones are words that are spelled different and have different meanings, but they sound the same.
Examples: ate/eight; by/buy/bye; to/too/two; your/you're; their/there/they're
Homographs are words that sound the same, have the same spelling, but sound different:
Example: wound/wound. I wound a bandage around his wound.
Homonyms are words that are spelled the same, sound the same, but have different meanings:
Examples:
die (as in death) and die (as in a template used to cut things)
bow (to bend at the waist) and bow (the front of a boat)
bow (like a ribbon) and bow (used with an arrow)
Verb:A verb is a word that shows the action in a sentence - it shows what someone or something is being or doing. A verb is usually the first word in the predicate:
The dog ran down the street and jumped on the curb.
Irregular verbs do not show action but are still the predicate. We also call them "Linking Verbs" because they link the subject and predicate together:
Examples: are, is, was, has, have, do, does, want, were, being, been, am, will
We are here. She will wait for me.Synonyms: Synonyms are words that are similar in meaning:
Examples:
small, little, tiny
big, huge, large, enormous, gigantic
Antonyms: Antonyms are words that are opposites:
Examples:
hot, cold
inside, outside
wide, narrow
short, tall
under, over
Nouns, Pronouns, Subjects, Objects, Prepositions, Adverbs, Verbs, Adjectives, Clauses, and Parts of Speech
http://www.reall-languages.com/chris%20grammar.htm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/trophies/grade_4.html
4 Types of Sentences:
Asking (Interrogative): Did the dog run down the street?
Telling/Statement (Declarative): The dog ran down the street.
Commanding (Imperative): Watch the dog run down the street.
Exclaiming (Exclamatory): Look out for the dog running down the street!
Noun: Person, Place, or Thing
Common nouns: dog, teacher, zoo
Proper nouns: Rover, Ms. Franzen, Atlanta Zoo
Subject / Predicate:
The subject tells the "who or what" in the sentence; the predicate tells you what the subject did:
Example: The dog and cat ran down the street.
Subject: The dog and cat
Predicate: ran down the street.
Adjective: An adjective describes (modifies) a noun.
Example: The shaggy dog and the furry cat ran down the winding road.
Adverb: An adverb describes (modifies) the verb.
Example: The shaggy dog and the furry cat ran quickly down the winding road.
Contractions:
do + not = don't
won't = will + not
Articles:
Articles are "special" adjectives that describe a noun - they imply that the number is one (and a number is an adjective).
Articles are: a, an, the
Examples:
I see a tree. ( the word 'a' implies one tree).
Do you see the dog? (the word 'the' implies one dog).
An elephant waded in the river. (the word 'an' implies one elephant).
Pronoun:A pronoun replaces a noun in a sentence.
Pronouns: he, she, it, they, we, I, you, us, we, our, ours, their, theirs, him, his, her, hers, them, its, mine, my, your, yours
Example: The girl and boy went to a movie. THEY went to a movie
Homophone/homonym/homograph: Words that often sound the same, but have different meanings, different sounds, and/or usually different spellings. We will focus mainly on homophones.
Homophones are words that are spelled different and have different meanings, but they sound the same.
Examples: ate/eight; by/buy/bye; to/too/two; your/you're; their/there/they're
Homographs are words that sound the same, have the same spelling, but sound different:
Example: wound/wound. I wound a bandage around his wound.
Homonyms are words that are spelled the same, sound the same, but have different meanings:
Examples:
die (as in death) and die (as in a template used to cut things)
bow (to bend at the waist) and bow (the front of a boat)
bow (like a ribbon) and bow (used with an arrow)
Verb:A verb is a word that shows the action in a sentence - it shows what someone or something is being or doing. A verb is usually the first word in the predicate:
The dog ran down the street and jumped on the curb.
Irregular verbs do not show action but are still the predicate. We also call them "Linking Verbs" because they link the subject and predicate together:
Examples: are, is, was, has, have, do, does, want, were, being, been, am, will
We are here. She will wait for me.Synonyms: Synonyms are words that are similar in meaning:
Examples:
small, little, tiny
big, huge, large, enormous, gigantic
Antonyms: Antonyms are words that are opposites:
Examples:
hot, cold
inside, outside
wide, narrow
short, tall
under, over
Present, Past and Future Progressive Tense Verbs |
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Relative Adverbs
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Relative Pronouns
Coordinating Conjunctions and Fanboys
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Formal and Informal Language |
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