Grammar Catch Phrase Core Test Grammar Review Directions

Grammar Catch Phrase Core Test Grammar Review

Directions � In the following slides, your knowledge of parts of speech, sentence structures, commas, adverbs, colons, and parentheses will be tested in an effort to prepare you for the core test. With each word you see on the following slides, you will need to either define it or give an example of it. After you finish, the person next to you will do the next word and so on. The trick is to answer as many as you can before the timer rings, and you don’t want the timer to ring while it is your turn or the other team wins a point. Good luck!

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? DAY’S MARKET

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? TO WANDER

GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF USING PARENTHESES.

INSERT THE COMMA THOUGH I LOVE SUMMER I DO NOT LIKE ALL THE BUGS THAT COME OUT.

LIST ONE COLON RULE.

ADJECTIVE

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT KIND OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE? I RAN A MARATHON, AND I TOOK 1 ST PLACE.

INFINITIVE VERB PHRASE

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? FOURTEEN

GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF USING A COMMA WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PHRASE

INSERT THE COLON A popover has four common ingredients flour, milk, salt, and butter.

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? RUNNING

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? TO SWIM

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? HIKE

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? BLUE

PRONOUN

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? THEY

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? HE

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? THAT

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? A, AN, THE

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? FOR, AND, NOR, BUT, OR, YET, SO

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? OVER

NOUN

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? IN

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? WAS HIKING

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? BY

ADVERB

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? IS

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? THROUGH

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? ABOVE

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? YIKES!

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? WAS

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? AM RUNNING

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? WOW!

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? RUNNING SHOES

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? BECAUSE, SINCE

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? HIKING BOOTS

HELPING VERB

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT KIND OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE? I RAN A MARATHON.

INTERJECTIONS

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT KIND OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE? WHEN I WAS FIFTY, I RAN A MARATHON, AND I ST TOOK 1 PLACE.

PREPOSITION

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT KIND OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE? WHEN I WAS FIFTY, I RAN A MARATHON.

CONJUNCTION

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? DOG

SIMPLE SENTENCE

LINKING VERB

GERUND

COMPOUND SENTENCE

PARTICIPLE

COMPOUND COMPLEX SENTENCE

GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF USING A COMMA WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PHRASE

INSERT THE COMMA DURING LUNCH I ATE PIZZA.

COMPLEX SENTENCE

INSERT THE COMMA WHILE SLEDDING BEHIND THE FOUR-WHEELER JEN BROKE HER ARM.

INSERT THE COMMA WHEN I WAS 12 I WAS AFRAID OF SPIDERS.

INSERT THE COMMA WHILE RIDING HIS BIKE JACK RAN OVER A SKUNK.

WHAT IS AN ADVERB?

INSERT PARENTHESES JACK WHO HAS ORANGE SHOELACES IS FIFTEEN.

FILL IN THE BLANK �A _____ is a signal that something is to follow: a rephrased statement, a list, or a formal quotation. Use a ______ if you can insert namely after it. � � Use a _____ at the end of a complete statement to show anticipation—that is, to show that amplifying details follow, such as a list, a series of items, a formal quotation, or an explanation.

INSERT THE COMMA DURING THE MOVIE I STARTED TO CRY.

INSERT THE COLON After five minutes of silence, the actor uttered those famous words “To be or not to be; that is the question. ”

GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF AN ADVERB.

LIST ONE COLON RULE.

INSERT THE COLON Of all the gauges in an airplane cockpit, three are crucial the altimeter, the gas gauge, and the crashwarning indicator.

INSERT PARENTHESES MY MOM THE BEST COOK IN THE ENTIRE WORLD BOUGHT A NEW DRESS.

LIST ONE COLON RULE.

ACTION VERB

PARENTHESES WHEN DO YOU USE PARENTHESES?

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? OH!

WHAT PART OF SPEECH ARE THESE WORDS? AM

WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS THIS WORD? SOFT

ARTICLE