Grammar Review
Nouns: person, place, thing, or idea
plural noun: more than one
possessive noun: shows ownership – use an apostrophe
Ex: police officer, school, car, courage
Pronouns: can take the place of the noun.
Ex: he, she, ours, it
Adjective: describes a noun
Ex: mean police officer, ugly school, beautiful car, tremendous courage
Adverb: describes verbs, other adverbs, or adjectives. Usually ends with “ly”
Ex: loudly shouting, rudely grabs, completely dark,
Verb: denotes an action or state of being
Ex: runs, gallops, screams, am, is, are, was, were, have, had, has, could, would,
should, may, must, might, do, does, did, be, being, been
Preposition: words that indicate some type of location – THEY ARE NOT VERBS.
Ex: around, inside, on, in, beside, between, like, near, next, of off
Conjunction: and, or, but, nor
Ex: Bob and Sally, Him or her
Sentence Fragment (SF): a sentence that does not have both a subject and predicate. This
is a bad thing.
Ex: Ran really fast home
Ex: The two scared boys
Run-On Sentence (RO): when a writer has combined two main ideas into one sentence.
This is a bad thing.
Ex: The two scared boys ran really fast home there was a dog at their house.
Ex: The high school has too many students they enjoyed ice cream at lunch.