Ms. McDaniel 6th Grade Language Arts EXAM REVIEW Ms. McDaniel 6th Grade Language Arts

Unit 8-Sentences Sentence-expresses a complete thought Kinds of Sentences Declarative General statement Interrogative Ask a question Exclamatory Expresses strong feeling Imperative Gives a command

Unit 8 Continued Two Part to a sentence Subject-tells who or what the sentence is about. Predicate-tells what the subject is or is doing. Subject and Predicate can be compound meaning it can have more than one.

Unit 9 Nouns Nouns names a person, place, or thing. Two kinds of nouns Common Any person, place, or thing Proper Names a particular person, place, or thing

Unit 9-Forms of nouns Singular Plural Collective Possessive one More than one Collective A group Possessive Show ownership

Unit 10 Verbs Three kinds of verbs Action Linking Helping Verb Phrase

Action Verbs Action verb is a word that describes what the subject is doing. 2 objects follow action verbs Direct object Receives the action of the verb Tell whom or what the action was done Indirect object Appears only in a sentence with a direct object Tells for whom or to whom the action was done Always comes before the direct object

Linking Verbs Linking verbs connects a sentence’s subject with a noun or adjective in the predicate 2 predicate words follow linking verbs Predicate Noun Tell what the subject is Predicate adjective Tells what the subject is like

+ = Helping Verb Phrase ACTION LINKING Helping Verb Phrase Helps the main verb express action Helping verb phrase is made up of the linking verb plus the action verb ACTION LINKING + = Helping Verb Phrase

Verb Tenses Present-may end with (s) Past-ends with (ed) Describes an action that is happening now Past-ends with (ed) Describes an action that has already happened Future-(has the helper will or shall with the before the action verb) Describes an action that will or shall happen

Participles and Verb Forms Present participle Past participle Present Progressive Past Progressive Present perfect tense Past perfect tense

Unit 11-Pronouns Pronouns takes the place of a noun 4 kinds of pronouns Indefinite pronouns Does not refer to a particular person, place, or thing Possessive pronoun Shows who or what has something Subject pronoun Used as the subject Object pronoun Used as a direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition

Unit 12-Adjectives Adjectives describes a noun or pronoun Answers 3 questions Which one What kind How many Proper adjective-adjectives formed by proper nouns and are always capitalized Adjectives that compare Comparative-compares two things Ends with -er Superlative-compares more than two Ends with -est Special Adjectives Articles-a, an and then Demonstratives- this, that, these, and those

Unit 13-Adverbs Adverbs describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Usually end with (-ly) Answers 3 questions When Where How Adverbs that compare Comparative-compares two things Superlative-compares more than two

Unit 13 continued Telling adjectives and adverbs apart If the word follows a linking verb then it is an adjective Ex. Tom was happy at the movies. adjective If the word follows an action verb then it is an adverb Ex. Tom lives happily in New York. adverb

Double Negatives Do not express the words “no” or “not” in the same sentence. They mean the same exact thing, which is NO!

Unit 14 Prepositions, Interjections, Conjunctions Prepositions are location words that tell a time or a place Prepositional phrases starts with a preposition and ends with an object(noun or pronoun) Interjections-express strong feelings Conjunctions-joins words or groups of words in a sentence 2 kinds of conjunctions Coordinating conjunctions And-introduces an idea But-introduces a contrasting idea Or-gives you a choice Correlative conjunctions works in pairs either/ or Neither/nor Both/And

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