Parts of Speech Review

Con: Because the island has a long coastline, fishing has always been a popular occupation.

Noun: The young girls play games at the beach.

Verb/Phrase: Some of them might have been remembering their nightmares.

Prep: At home the young fisher thought about the girl on the beach.

Noun: On the other side is the Sea of Japan.

What type of pronoun points out specific persons, places, things, or ideas.

Adverbs: The master of the boat was always cheerful.

What type of noun names a group?

Adverbs: A bitterly cold wind chilled the fishers as they worked.

Noun: Many islanders depend upon the ocean for jobs.

T/F: A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun or words acting as a noun.

T/F: A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea.

What type of verb joins the subject of the sentence with a word that identifies the subject?

T/F: An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun by describing it.

T/F: An intensive pronoun reflects back to a noun or pronoun used earlier in the sentence.

Con: Japan is a nation of islands both large and small.

T/F: A pronoun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or an idea.

Pronoun: During the Heian period, people who wrote literature were members of the nobility.

Adverbs: There they found the other boats from the village.

Adverbs: Soon the three reached the village's fishing grounds.

The dishlike shell of the abalone is lined with gray mother-of-pearl.

Verb/Phrase: The older women were laughing about the events of the previous evening.

T/F: A conjunction is a word that expresses action or a state of being.

Con: There are four main islands and many hundreds of smaller ones.

Verb/Phrase: The young girls wore more solemn expressions.

Prep: In his free time, the young man was doing chores for his mother.

Noun: On one side of the country lies the Pacific Ocean.

T/F: An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb by adding meaning or emphasis.

T/F: An interjection has no grammatical connection to the other words in the sentence.

T/F: Interrogative adjectives are pronouns that are used to ask questions.

Con: Japan's rugged mountains create a beautiful landscape but leave farmers little land.

T/F: Interjections show the relationship between a noun and another word in the sentence.

Pronoun: It reflects many of the characteristics of the Japanese people.

Handsome pearls develop when foreign objects accidentally lodge inside a shell.

Like oysters, abalone can also produce valuable pearls.

Adj: The fleshy body, or foot, inside the shell makes a tasty meal.

Pronoun: Cultural elements occur in the oldest manuscripts, which date to the 8th century.

Pronoun: Of these, the greatest were women, and the greatest of all was Murasaki Shikibu.

Adverbs: Because of his good humor, his two assistants willingly worked for him.

Pronoun: The Japanese literary tradition out of which Mishima emerged is quite interesting.

Prep: He had never seen her before that day.

Noun: On Song Island, the women dive for abalone.

The women did not waste a moment.

Others were probably recalling the carefree dives of earlier years.