1. You can’t touch this. Vocabulary/Grammar Connection
It’s Grammar-time
You can’t touch this.
Vocabulary/Grammar Connection

2. Vocabulary Detectives
nouns
verbs
adjectives
These three parts of speech are the ones that will contribute the most if you are making the best collection. Nouns, verbs and adjectives are “power words” for reading and writing. Adverbs are great too, but we’ll talk about them later; for now, these are the big three.
Can you guess the four other parts of speech?? Prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections.
Practice your parts of speech while collecting. Teach yourself to identify (or guess intelligently) your vocabulary word’s part of speech before you look in the dictionary. Challenge yourself! How many can you get right this week?

3. Nouns, verbs, adjectives…
The four other parts of speech— ______________, _____________, ______________, and _________________—these are your simple and common words (under, into, him, we, and, when, wow, gosh), and you already know them.

4. Vocabulary Detectives
Know your noun suffixes!
nouns
persons, places, things, and ideas all serve as nouns in our language
Some nouns are “touch-able,” which means they’re concrete nouns because they have physical forms. Examples?
Some nouns—like thought and happiness—are abstract nouns because they don’t have physical forms.
Brainstorm a list of concrete and abstract nouns on a T-chart
Most common noun suffixes:
-ment -ship -ness -ance/-ancy
-ence/-ency -ion/-sion/-tion
-ism

5. Vocabulary Detectives
Learn your noun suffixes. They are a smart tool.
Seeing that there’s a pattern to identifying a noun will help you discover new nouns and you’ll know when you’re using a noun, not a verb.
Creating nouns using this pattern will help you spot spelling patterns too. These are smart tools.
adjective/verb +
noun suffix = noun
Noun Suffixes:
Can you remember what they are???
-ment/ -ship/ -ness/ -ance/-ancy/ -ence/-ency/ -ion/-sion/-tion/-ism

6. Vocabulary Detectives
verbs
action words
and state of being words
What the subject did or does
What the subject is or was
Important: When collecting a verb, you may need to remove put it in present tense singular form to look up the word.
Remember that verbs have different forms, depending on number or verb tense.
eat– eats: He eats. Pres. tense, singular
play—playing: He is playing. Pres sing progressive tense
Laugh– laughed: They laughed. Plural past tense.
Verb Tense Suffixes:
-ed -ing
-s/-es/-ies
That’s pretty much all of them. They should be easy to practice.
Exampls of action verbs and state of being verbs?

7. Vocabulary Detectives
verbs
If you find the verb quantifying, you’ll want to record it as just quantify on your bookmark.
If you find the word ensconced, what do you think you’ll record/look up?
Most verbs can have an –ing on the end, but not all words with an –ing on the end are verbs. However, you might be able to tell if a word is a verb by adding an –ing.
Brainstorm some 25 cent verbs.
Verb Tense Suffixes:
-ed -ing
-s/-es/-ies
That’s pretty much all of them. They should be easy to practice.

8. Vocabulary Detectives
adjectives
Important: When defining an adjective, often the dictionary will do so using the noun or verb form of the same word. For example…
If you look up perilous, and it is defined as full of or involving peril, you can’t write that as your definition because peril is the same word as perilous, just in noun form.
You need to look up the noun form—peril—and borrow words from that definition to replace the word peril in the definition you found.
Adjective Suffixes:
-ous (as in sonorous) -al (as in pivotal) -y (as in muggy) -ive (as in elective)
perilous – (adj.) full of or involving danger

9. adjectives Vocabulary Detectives Adjective Suffixes:
Let’s work backwards to practice some adjectives.
Make a t-chart.
Brainstorm words that end with these suffixes.
What is the companion word?
Can you figure out what part of speech it is?
Do you notice a pattern?
Adjective Suffixes:
-ous (as in sonorous) -al (as in pivotal) -y (as in muggy) -ive (as in elective)

10. Vocabulary Detectives
nouns
verbs
adjectives
Most of the new words you will learn—your $1 robust words—will be nouns, verbs or adjectives.
Good language students learn to recognize that many words—peril and perilous, for example—are the same word, just in the form of different parts of speech. Why is this an important skill?
You end up learning two forms of a new word for the price of looking up one.