Grammar Term 1 Final

A word that refers to a person, place, thing or idea/feeling (teacher, playground, pencil case, excitement)

If you can see it, go to it, speak to it, touch it, smell it, hear it, or feel it, it is a ______________.

the name of an everyday things and objects (man, country, shop, pencil)

the special name of a person, place, organization, month of the year, use Capital letter (Ms. Smith, ISR, January, Neuss)

Proper nouns always begin with a _________________________.

The definite article! (I talked to ___ teacher - we know what teacher it is).

indefinite articles: "I would really like ___ new video game___ awesome new book for my birthday" - we do not know exactly which video game or which book.

We almost always use 'an' when a word starting with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U) comes after it [an apple, an ice cream, an egg, an orange, an umbrella]

the main word (noun) in the complete subject

elephant

pack

band

frog

a word that refers to a group of people, animals, or objects (stack of coins, herd of cows, swarm of bees, group of students)

collective nouns take the singular (he, she, it) form of the verb. Example- The team IS in the locker room. The swarm of bees BUZZES around me.

refers to more than one of a noun (used for common nouns) - examples: frogs, children, sunglasses, foxes

most words in English simply make the plural by adding an -s (girl—girls/house—houses/pencil—pencils)

for words ending in these letters, add -es

there are a few different rules so be careful! Sometimes you change to -ves and sometimes you simply add -s. Other times, you can choose for yourself!

calves

wolves

thieves

wives

knives

shelves

chiefs

cliffs

giraffes

dwarves or dwarfs

scarf or scarves

hoofs or hooves

feet

teeth

children

men

women

mice

people

geese

If a consonant comes before the y, changes the y to -ies (baby—babies, party—parties, family—families)

if a vowel comes before the -y, you just need to add -s (day—days, play—plays, journey—journeys)

The predicate is the part of the sentence that explains the action or what is being done. It always includes the verb!

The simple predicate is the verb alone.

talked

ate

gathered

slid down the giant slide.

ate strawberry pancakes for breakfast

is sitting under the bed

a doing or being word (run, think, practice, swim, become and all forms of "to be" - am, is, are, was were)

a word that describes someone or something

warm, woolen

little, angry

two or more nouns joined by and (and sometimes commas) that make up a subject

Becky and Jane

Jonas, Noah, and their mom

Apples, strawberries and bananas