Transcript Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs Review

Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs:
Review
Working with the parts of speech
What are Nouns?
They are people, places, things, or ideas
 There are abstract, concrete, common,
proper, collective, compound nouns
 Identify the nouns in the following
sentences:
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John walked to the store with his brother.
 John, store, and brother are the nouns
 Lexis is a very interesting girl.
 Lexis and girl are the nouns
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What are Pronouns?
Pronouns are words that take the place
of nouns and/subjects so that sentences
don’t sound so repetitive
 There are the 1st person (I, me, my,
mine, myself, we, our, us), 2nd person
(you, your, yours), and 3rd person (he,
she, it, him, her, hers, his, its, they, them,
their, theirs) pronouns
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Pronouns Continued
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There are Demonstrative pronouns: this, that,
these, those that point out a specific person,
place, or thing
 Interrogative pronouns: who, whom, whose,
which, and what that begin a question
 Relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which
that tell more about a noun or subject
 Indirect pronouns: anyone, anybody, you,
someone, somebody, everybody, each,
others, and more that have no antecedent
Pronoun Practice
Identify the pronouns in the following
sentences:
 You really should clean up your room.
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Yes, “you” and “your” are the pronouns
When Mr. Victor says that everyone is
responsible for their own education, he
hopes that his students take this to heart.
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everyone, their, he, and his are all pronouns
What’s a Verb?
A verb describes an action or state of
being
 Verbs are used to show what a noun is,
has, does, or feels
 There are action verbs, linking verbs,
being verbs, helping verbs to name a few
 Remember, substitute is or are to figure
out if the verb is action or linking
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Common Being and Helping Verbs
Being Verbs: am, is, are, was, were, be,
being, been (you can add can, could,
might, must, shall should, would, and
have with these—might have been)
 Helping Verbs: is, am, was are, were, be
been, do, does, did, has, have, had,
may, might, can, should, could, would,
shall, will
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Verb Practice
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Identify the verbs in the following sentences:
 Mr. Victor speaks rather loudly.
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He often moves around his room when he
talks.
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“speaks” is the verb
“moves” and “talks” are the verbs
If there is something funny, Mr. Victor laughs
along with his students.
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“is” and “laughs” are the verbs
Let’s see if you got it
Retake the test time so pull out your
pencils, sharpen them, and get ready to
get 100% on this new test.
 Should you not get 100%, there will be
an alternative assignment to complete to
100% in order to raise your grade to
passing for the Nouns, Verbs, and
Pronouns section
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