MONDAY Parts of Speech Noun person place or thing Pronoun replaces specific noun Verb shows the action of a noun Adjective descriptive word Adverb modifies or describes an action ID: 648808
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GRAMMAR
WORKSHOP
Learning the ins and outs of the English LanguageSlide2
MONDAY
Parts of Speech
Noun – person, place or thing
Pronoun – replaces specific noun
Verb – shows the action of a noun
Adjective – descriptive word
Adverb – modifies (or describes) an action
Interjection – conveys emotion
Conjunction – links words, clauses and phrases
Preposition – links nouns to other words and shows locationSlide3
TUESDAY
Punctuation
Ending Punctuation
:
signals the end of the sentence
Comma
:
separates independent phrases and lists
Semi-colon
:
separates two closely linked clauses
Colon
:
introduces a list
Quotation Marks
:
directly quoted material, dialogue, titles of short works (essays, short stories)
Apostrophe
:
possessive and contraction
Dash
:
marks
the end of a list or change in thoughtSlide4
WEDNESDAY:CAUGHT ‘YA!
Rewrite these sentences to reflect proper grammar in both parts of speech and punctuation.
1. the
first day of school a bizarre new teacher appeared
in the eleventh
grade at university high school in orange city.
2. she was dressed in funky chartreuse clothing from her hair ribbon to her coach shoes and she was very ugly.
3. this bizarre teachers nose stuck way out on her plain square face and her chin pointed at the floor like a
witchs
chin. Slide5
THURSDAY: CAUGHT ‘YA!
Rewrite these sentences to reflect proper grammar in both parts of speech and punctuation.
1. her white hair hung limply down to her crooked hunched shoulders and it looked greasy.
2. the teachers spindly arms and legs were so skinny that she looked like a live walking stick with her long nose as the handle.
3. she was in fact the ugliest teacher the students had
ever beheld.