Action verbs/ physical actions:◦ You can see these happening

To walk, to jump, the run, to punch, to teach, to push, to bite

Mental/emotional/sensory actions or conditions: ◦ You cannot necessarily see these actions but they

are still the action of the sentence. to be, to have, to seem, to mean, to think, to learn,

to understand, to love, to hate, to envy, to decide, to wish, to feel, to see, to taste

Others:◦ To cost, to contain, to weigh, to appear

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*The sweet, creamy mixture of peanut butter adj adj adj noun prep adj noun

and chocolate was quickly devoured.conj noun h.verb adv verb

The delicious Snickers is so good and the Adj adj noun verb adv adj conj

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chocolate melts in my mouth. noun verb prep pro noun

My Snickers is a delicious, caramelly delight.

Pro noun verb adj adj adj noun

I see one person in the crowd and it is a pro v adj noun prep adj noun conj pro v adj

person I greatly hate. noun pro adv verb

The judge has said that the crime was adj n h.v. Verb conj adj noun verb

exceedingly heinous. adv adj

“The judge has said that the crime was exceedingly heinous.”

Sometimes you can try substitution if you are unsure of the word you are trying to figure out.◦ “Well, I don’t know what ‘heinous’ means, but I

know a crime is not a good thing and you can say “the crime was exceedingly bad” and bad would be an adjective here, since it’s describing the crime so I think heinous would be too.”

Argh! My computer crashed last night. int pron verb adj n

He arrived last at the party. pro verb adv prep adj noun

Adverbs modify what parts of speech?

Adjectives modify what parts of speech?

Adjectives & Adverbs: ◦ Ask yourself what part of speech is being

modified/described by this word Verbs:

◦ Ask yourself what subject does this very belong to? Is it the only verb belonging to this subject?

Nouns:◦ “The, a, an” all signal that a noun will follow.

However, it may not follow immediately. Ex: The hyper, rambunctious students were so

excited for Jeopardy.

Don’t have to say “what is” before responses First person to get fly swatter on “buzzer”

gets to answer first One “phone a friend” lifeline per group;

cannot be used for final Jeopardy If you get an answer wrong, you lose that

number of points One double jeopardy Final Jeopardy: If you are negative or have 0,

you can bet up to what the other team has

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Parts of Speech Definition (2)

Parts of Speech Practice (3)

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FINAL JEOPARDY

Tiny, small, insignificanta) Imminentb) infinitesimalc) Placidd)Impunitye)zealous

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Calm, peacefula) Placidb) Impunityc) Reposed) Doggednesse) uncanny

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Annihilatea) To forgive or overlookb) To create a relationship between two thingsc) To destroy completelyd) To lie dead or at reste) To be about to occur

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Infallibility:a) Crooked; to one sideb) Persistence or stubbornnessc) Continuously or without interruptiond) Filled with shock or horrore) An inability to make errors

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Define “condone”

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What part of speech takes the place of a noun?

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What part of speech answers: What kind? How many? Which one? Whose?

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Expresses an emotion; has no relationship to the rest of the sentence

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What part of speech “goes anywhere a cat can go?”

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A noun names what 6 things?

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“A, an, the” are all what part of speech?

“The girls talked too quickly for me to understand.”◦ What part of speech is “quickly”?

“I will receive a good grade on the test tomorrow.”◦ What is the helping verb in this sentence?

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“This candy bar tastes very good.”◦ What is the adverb in this sentence AND what is it

modifying?

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“My dog likes to hide under my bed.”◦ Under is what part of speech?

Label every part of speech in this sentence:

The deliciously sweet Snickers melted slowly on my tongue.

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