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Grammar Review Week 1
A) Nouns- A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing. Some of the things named by nouns can be seen. Some cannot.
| |Exercise 1: Identifying Nouns. Underline the two nouns in each sentence. |
|People | |
|Places |EXAMPLE: Carol walked to the store. |
|Things |1. In the summer we go to the lake. |
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|mother |2. Last month was my birthday. |
|teacher | |
|Mrs. Brown |3. Many birds fly south in winter. |
|classroom | |
|home | |
|theater | |
|honesty | |
|animal | |
|automobile | |
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|Examples: | |
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|Common and Proper Nouns A common noun names one of a class of people, places, or |Exercise 2: Identifying Common and Proper Nouns. Underline the common nouns in |
|things. A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are |the sentences below. Underline twice the proper nouns. |
|always capitalized. | |
| |EXAMPLE: Davey hit a single. |
|Examples: | |
|Common Nouns |1. I’ve just read a play by Shakespeare. |
|Proper Nouns | |
| |2. The Drama Club elected a new president. |
|leader | |
|city |3. Soon our family plans to visit Miami. |
|state | |
|George Washington | |
|Los Angeles | |
|Florida | |
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|Exercise 3: Recognizing Action Verbs. Underline the action verb in each sentence. |
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|EXAMPLE: The plane from Madrid arrived three hours late. |
|1. The musician placed the piccolo in its case. |
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|2. Bill sprinkled garlic onto the steaming bread. |
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|3. This camera takes excellent pictures. |
B) Verbs- A verb is the action in the sentence.
Examples:
|Visible Action |Mental Action |
|run |remember |
|swim |decide |
|hit |understand |
|bring |believe |
C)Adjectives-Adjectives as Modifiers An adjective describes a noun or a pronoun. Adjectives usually answer one of these four questions about the nouns and pronouns they modify: What kind? Which one? How many? How much?
|ADJECTIVE QUESTIONS |Exercise 4: Recognizing Adjectives and the Words They Modify. Underline the two adjectives |
| |in each sentence below. Double underline the words they modify. Do not underline a, an, or |
|What Kind? blue house small dog |the. |
|Which One? this bicycle each state |EXAMPLE: The vast, flat desert stretched before him. |
|How Many? two balloons few boys | |
|How Much? no snow enough money |1. The sleek gray horse galloped across the pasture. |
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| |2. This fine novel was written by a friend of mine. |
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| |3. The long, narrow column of soldiers marched through the pass. |
D) Adverbs- An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. An adverb that modifies a verb will answer one of these four questions: Where? When? In what manner? To what extent?
|ADVERBS THAT MODIFY VERBS |Exercise 5: Recognizing Adverbs That Modify Verbs. In each sentence, underline the adverb |
| |that modifies a verb. |
|Where? walked away went inside | |
|When? went today travels seldom |EXAMPLE: We never walk to school. |
|In What Manner? works carelessly runs swiftly |1. She ran rapidly around the track. |
|To What Extent? thoroughly finished | |
|hardly begun |2. I began my piano lessons reluctantly. |
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| |3. I had barely started eating when we had to leave. |
E) The Four Types of Sentences-
|Examples: |Exercise 6: Recognizing the Four Types of Sentences. On the blank at the |
| |right of each |
|A declarative sentence states an idea and ends with a period. |sentence, write whether it is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or |
| |exclamatory. |
|DECLARATIVE SENTENCES | |
|They waited at the station for the bus. |EXAMPLE: The cat chased its tail. Declarative |
|In the fall, the trees will lose their leaves. | |
| |1. Leave my house, immediately!_____________________ |
|An interrogative sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark. | |
| |2. What should we cook for the party?_________________ |
|INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES | |
|To whom did you give the book? When will you get it back? |3. What great ideas you have, Paul!___________________ |
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|An imperative sentence gives an order or a direction and ends with a period or an |4. We are reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet.______________ |
|exclamation mark. | |
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|IMPERATIVE SENTENCES | |
|Turn left at the stoplight. Listen to me! | |
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|An exclamatory sentence conveys strong emotion and ends with an exclamation mark. | |
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|EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES | |
|Our school won first prize! What excitement there was! | |
F) Complete one of these sentences:
I don’t understand _____________________________________________________________________________.
Or
I understand ____________________________________________________________________________________.
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