1st Quarter

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Parts of Speech

September 7, 2016

The parts of speech are the categories into which every word in the language fits. These parts of speech are the building blocks of the language. When people refer to the parts of speech, they mean these eight categories into which all words can be placed.

The eight parts of speech:

1. Noun

2. Pronoun

3. Verb

4. adjective (and Articles)

5. Adverb

6. Preposition

7. Conjunction

8. Interjection

Nouns

September 8, 2016

A noun is a person, place, thing, idea or emotion

Here are some examples of nouns ( sun, girl, religion, happiness,

California, Susie)

Underline all nouns in the following Sentences

1. Peter gave his cake to his younger brother.

2. Do you know where this idea came from in the first place?

3. The department has had five meetings in the past month.

4. He was sad until he learned he had won the award; then he was filled

with happiness.

Five Types Of Nouns

September 9, 2016

1. Common Nouns are regular nouns that do not start with Capital Letters. (ex: boy, girl & desk)

2. Proper Nouns are nouns that start with capital letters. They are Specific to people places, things or Ideas (Ex: Florida, Joe & Thanksgiving)

3. Concrete Nouns are nouns that represent things you can see, hear, taste touch or feel. Concrete nouns are either common or proper too. (ex: grass, perfume)

4 .Abstract nouns are the nouns that

represent ideas or emotions; you cannot

perceive them with your senses. (ex: Religion,

happiness, anger)

5. Collective nouns are nouns that represent

a group of things or people without being

made plural (group, orchestra, flock)

although the Y can be made plural (ex:

family – families)

September 12, 2016

Recognizing Types of Nouns

Directions: Underline the noun

1. Find the proper noun: We went to New York City on our

vacation last summer.

2. Find the concrete noun: You need to add more soil

before you finish.

3. Find the abstract noun: You seem to know all the rules of

this game!

4. Find the collective noun: The band played all day in the

gymnasium

September 13, 2016

Pronouns and AntecedentsPronouns take the place of nouns, For example,

compare the two sentences:

Mary baked Mary’s famous lasagna for dinner.

Mary baked her famous lasagna for dinner.

Her is a pronoun. It is used in the second sentence to

take place of Mary so we do not have to repeat

Mary.

September 13, 2016

Pronouns and Antecedents ContinuedAn antecedent is the word the pronoun is

standing in for. In the sentence above Mary is

the antecedent of her.

An antecedent can also be a pronoun.

Pronouns can stand in for other proNOUNS.

He showed the manager his report. (His and he

are the same person. He is the antecedent.)

September 13, 2016

September 14, 2016

PronounsDirections: Underline the antecedent for the italicized pronoun.

1. June brought her books back to the library.

2.I baked you a cake, but I burned it.

3.They came to the party and brought their costumes.

4.I want to take singing lessons, but my mother can not afford to pay for them.

5.Bob loves his younger brother, who worships him.

September 15, 2016

Personal Pronouns Personal pronouns are the most

commonly used pronouns,

Here is the complete list:

First Person: I, me, my, mine

(singular); we, us, our, ours

(plural)

Second Person: you, your,

yours (both singular and plural)

Third Person: he, him, his, she,

her, hers, it, its (singular); they,

them, their, theirs (plural)

Underline the personal pronouns in each sentence.

1. I didn’t tell him about the new idea I had.

2. My brother told me who is coming to my party.

3. We students are having a carwash to support the school.

4. The story about the accident was so terrible that I didn’t believe it at first.

5. Don’t forget to bring your bathing suit when we go to the beach

September 16, 2016

Journal Entry

In an five sentence paragraph

explain the role of an

Eyewitness?

September 19, 2016

Action Verbs

Verb: It’s what you do!

Most verbs are action words.

Jump, run, bake, study, read,

swim, give and walk are

examples of verbs.

Verbs can also indicate mental

action, not just physical

action: think, wonder, plan,

and consider are also verbs.

The boys hid in the forest (Hid

is the verb)

Directions: Underline the verbs in the

sentence. There may be more than

one verb in a sentence.

1. Jack threw the ball to Sam, who

caught it.

2. Do you know anything about

European history?

3. My cat jumped up on the table and

ate the cookies.

4. I wonder if she likes me.

5. Tell me the truth.

September 20, 2016

Linking Verbs A linking verb ties together the word or words before the verb and

the word or words after the verb.

The most common linking verb is the verb to be: am, are, is, will be,

was, has been, have been etc.

Example: She was a dancer. (Dancer describes she, they are linked

by the verb was.)

There are linking verbs other than the forms of the verb to be. Taste,

appear, look, sound, seem and feel are also examples of linking

verbs. Usually, if you can substitute a form of the to be verb and the

sentence still makes sense , you have a linking verb.

Example: She felt tired today. (Tired describes she; they are linked

by the verb felt. She is tired also makes sense.)

September 21, 2016

Action and Linking VerbsDirections: Circle all the verbs in the following

sentences, and tell whether each one is Action or

Linking. There may be more than one verb in a

sentence.

1. If you are correct, then there is no answer to

this problem.

2. Clean your room, and then mow the lawn.

3. I think that she is the tallest girl in the room.

4. My office is too small, and my desk won’t fit.

5. I shop, clean and visit my mother on

weekends.

September 22, 2016

Action and Linking Verbs

Directions: Circle all the verbs in the following sentences, and tell whether each one is Action or

Linking.

1. Johnny is a reporter for the school paper.

2. Ships carry people and cargo.

3. The schoolroom felt cold.

4. Soon, we were safe at home.

5. The Wright Brothers flew the first airplane.

September 23, 2016

Tenses Verbs have some qualities you should know about. One is the verb tense, which has to do with

time. The tense of a verb tells you when the action took place. Verbs are the only action part of speech, so they are the only part of speech with tense. As you know, things can take place in the past, in the present or in the future. There are six main tenses, each representing a different time. Each of these six has a partner (the progressive form), making the total number of tenses twelve. Here they are using the action verb walk:

1. Present tense: I walk to the store. (it is happening now.)

Present progressive tense: I am walking to the store.

2. Past tense: I walked to the store. (It happened in the past, and it is over.)

Past progressive tense: I was walking to the store.

3. Future tense: I will walk to the store. (It will happen in the future)

Future progressive tense: I will be walking to the store.

To be continued on Monday, September 26, 2016

September 26, 2016

Tenses continued

4. Present perfect tense: I have walked to the store every day this week. (it

happened in the past and is possibly continuing.)

Present perfect progressive tense: I have been walking to school.

5. Past perfect tense: I had walked for an hour by the time I found the library.

(it happened in the past before something else happened in the past)

Past perfect progressive tense: I had been walking to the store when I met Sue.

6. Future perfect tense: I will have walked five miles by the time I get to your

house. (It will happen in the future before some other future event.)

Future perfect progressive tense: I will have been walking five miles a day for six

years by the time I graduate from high school.

September 27, 2016

Hiroshima Writing Prompt #1

In a ten sentence paragraph, Explain how you

would react if an atomic bomb went off when

you were in school and what are possible

problems you would encounter.

September 28, 2016

Tenses The progressive tenses

represent the same time as

their matching tenses. The

words that we use to help

specify the tenses (such as

will, have and have been)

are called helping verbs.

September 29, 2016

Verb TensesDirections: Fill in each blank with the verb and tense in parentheses.

1. We ______ to the movies three times this week. (verb: to go – present

perfect tense)

2. I ______ a cake for your birthday. (verb: to bake, future)

3. We ________ at the mall before. (verb: to shop – past perfect)

4. I _________ piano lessons for seven years by this winter. (verb: to

take – future perfect tense)

5. I ______until I couldn’t study any longer. (verb: to study – past tense)

6. She _____ football with all the boys in her class. (verb: to play –

present tense)

September 30, 2016

Irregular Verbs

When we talk about different forms of a verb, we

are usually referring to how the verb changes in a

different tense, generally past or present perfect.

Most verbs add –ed to the end for the past tense

forms; the verbs that do not add an -ed are called

irregular verbs.

Regular verbs :

1. He wondered about his dream. (ends in –ed)

2. I walked to the train station. (ends in –ed)

Irregular verbs:

1. He thought about it for a while. (not thinked )

2. The cat ate his food. (not eated )

Directions: Write the past tense of the following

verbs. They are all regular and irregular verbs.

1. Rain _____________

2. Wash ____________

3. Study_____________

4. Become __________

5. Play_______________

6. Be ______________

7. Fall ______________

8. Graduate ________________

9. Go _________________

10. Have _______________

October 4, 2016

Voice

Another quality of verbs is voice. There are two types of voices:

active and passive. In active voice, the subject of the sentence

(usually), the noun or pronoun before the verb is doing the action.

Ex: He drove to the mall. (active- the subject of the sentence, he did

the driving)

In passive voice the subject is usually not doing the action of the

verb.

Ex: He was driven to the mall by his sister. (passive)