8 Parts of Speech

What is an adjective?

Identify an action verb: "Joe flew to Canada for vacation."

What is a noun?

Which word is not an adjective?

These are all adjectives: smelly, colorful, happy, dark, wet, lazy

Identify an adjective: "My family ate warm chili for supper and it was tasty."

Identify a noun: "Molly quickly finished her chores."

A proper noun is a name for a person, place, or thing.

Identify a noun in this sentence: "He bought a new jacket with his money."

What is an action verb?

Identify a proper noun: "The cat scratched Lisa last night."

Identify a verb: "We thought about driving to Chicago last weekend."

Which one is not a being verb?

Identify an adjective: "Billy's yellow shirt was dirty from the mud."

A being verb can link a noun and an adjective or a noun and an action verb.