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

womanHollister, 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

1.2. 6.3. 7.4. 8.5. 9.

10.

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!

1. noun, verb2. noun, preposition3. Proper noun, linking verb4. Helping verb, noun, preposition5. Noun, verb, preposition, linking

verb, helping verb, proper noun

DLA Week of 8.20.121. 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

1. She quickly ran to the back of the room. 2. They once lived in the brick house. 3. She often feels ignored by her friends. 4. He is extremely eager to play football.5. We were later forced to play Monopoly.6. 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 students4. The candy belongs to Jessica 5. The mess of the dogs6. The painting belongs to the woman7. 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