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What do these words have in common?
Animal
Movie
Plant
Country
Book
City
Game
Group
Person
Food
Building
Flower
Town
Tiger
What do these words have in common?
Bullfrog
Seattle
Tacos
Oak tree
Chicago
The Beatles
Where the Wild Things Are
Star Wars
Monopoly
Australia
George Washington
Empire State Building
Terra Vista Middle School
Nouns
A noun is a person, place, thing, quality, or idea.
Teaching Grammar Through WritingKeith Polette
Nouns Nouns can name
people.
Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.
Nouns Nouns can name places.
Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.
Nouns Nouns can name
things.
Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.
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Nouns Nouns can name a quality.
Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.
NounsNouns can name
ideas.
Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.
Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.
Nouns A noun can be either proper or common.
A proper noun names something specific.
A common noun names something general.
Write a sentence using both types of nouns.
Nouns Nouns can be either
concrete or abstract.
A concrete noun can beexamined with fivesenses.
An abstract noun cannotbe examined with the five senses.
Write a sentence that uses both a concrete and abstract noun.
Nouns Nouns can be used as the subject of the sentence.
Write one sentence with a common noun as the subject.
Write one sentence with an abstract noun as the subject.
NounsNouns can be used
as objects.
Nouns used as directobjects answer the question, WHAT.
Nouns used as indirect objects as the questions, TOWHOM or FORWHOM.
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NounsNouns can be used
as objects.
Nouns used as objects of the preposition answer the question, WHAT.
What do these words have in common?
PourLaughRunTossSkipCatchSoar
SentSwimWalkDrinkOpenCarryText
VerbsVerbs are the action or doing part
of the sentence.
Teaching Grammar Through WritingKeith Polette
Action Verbs are…
words that name an ACTION!words that can express physical actions.words that can express mental activities.
Action Verbs can be tricky when using…
have, has, or had.These are action verbs when they name what the subject owns or holds.Example:
The director has a script in her pocket.
Action Verbs examples…
Eugene O’Neill’s father, an actor, toured the country.
O’Neill learned about the theater from his father.
toured
learned
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Action Verbs examples…
O’Neill’s father sent him to Princeton University.
Soon O’Neill developed an interest in the sea.
sent
developed
Action Verbs examples…
He left home for two years of travel.
Later, a drama teacher at Harvard University inspired O’Neill.
left
inspired
What do these words have in common?
AmAreIsWasWereHaveHas
HadDoDoesDidWill ShallBe
Being BeenCouldShouldWouldMay Might
MustAppearSeemBecomeBecameLookRemain
Linking Verbs…connect the subject of a sentence with a noun or an adjective in the predicate.Example:
Bess Powell was the director.N N
was
Active Voice…Occurs when the subject performs the action of the verb.
George Bernard Shaw wrote that play.
wrote
Passive Voice…
Occurs when the subject receives the action of the verb.
That play was written by George Bernard Shaw.
was written
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Active/Passive Voice…
Pygmalion was written by George Bernard Shaw.
was written
Passive Voice
Active/Passive Voice…
Shaw’s play is based on an ancient Greek myth.
is based
Passive Voice
Active/Passive Voice…
Many people saw the play.saw
Active Voice
Active/Passive Voice…
Critics gave it poor reviewsin the newspapers.
gave
Active Voice
Main Verbs and Helping
Verbs…A helping verb helps the main verb tell about an action or make a statement.
Common Helping Verbs…
AmIsAreWasWere
HaveHadHasBeBeingBeen
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Main Verbs and Helping Verbs…
The director had joined the crew later in the day, and now he is conducting his own last minute check.
had joined
isconducting
Main Verbs and Helping Verbs…
Emmy awards have been announced each year in the category for drama-comedy specials.
havebeen announced
Main Verbs and Helping Verbs…
Live theater has experienced a surge in attendance.
hasexperienced
