Parts of Speech 2: Complete the activities

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1 English Language 1 Grade 6 Parts of Speech 2: Complete the activities A. Complete the table: SENTENCE WORD TYPE OF NOUN The main hallway of the Sternwood Place was two stories high. hallway Sternwood Place In the front of the garage, a young chauffeur in shiny black leggings, all happiness, dusting a maroon BMW 320i. Above the doors, which would have let in a troop of elephants, there was a broad panel showing a knight in dark armour. The shining of his sword almost blinding. B. Fill in an appropriate pronoun. Sandy went to the park with mother and father. ran on the lawn. Then father pushed on the swings while mother smiled and watched. spread out a blanket on the lawn and read a book while Sandy and father played catch with a ball. Sandy threw too hard, and father had to chase after. Sandy did some somersaults, rolling forward on head and kicking feet up over head. giggled and lay on the grass until dad came back. All three of ate sandwiches together before went back home. C. Circle the verb that best fits: 1. Mrs. Merit will (teach, taught) us to do subtraction. 2. He came from a poor immigrant family and (growed, grew) up in Chicago. 3. An hoax posing as a virus advisory (is, are, am) surfing across the Internet. 4. The sly squirrel (stealed, stole) seeds from the bird feeder. 5. The roses (is, are, am) in blossom this month.

2 English Language 2 Grade 6 Helping verbs: fill in the correct verb on the line. 1. Mary and Larry helping Mr Anderson. 2. Trudy bake the cakes yesterday. 3. Lori clean her room tonight. 4. Will you planting spinach in the vegetable garden? 5. She overcome all the obstacles ahead of her. D. Describe the noun: Positive: MONEY Negative: Comparative: E. Directions: Read the sentence, then read the question. Write the adverb on the line. 1. The kids go everywhere to skate. Where do the kids go to skate? 2. There is a skate park nearby. Where is the skate park? 3. You should not skate inside. Where should you not skate? Sort the following words into the correct column: soon now somewhere carefully nowhere easily gladly much lastly aforementioned happily tomorrow seldom very always...of time...of place of manner...of number...of degree...of frequency

3 English Language 3 Grade 6 F. Using the map below, fill in the missing prepositions. 1. The school is the theatre. 2. The hospital is the supermarket car park. 3. The Korean restaurant is the bank and the library. 4. The is behind me. 5. Palm street and Lane street are to each other. 6. The art gallery is Queen avenue. 7. From the vet, I have to walk the aquarium to get to the Italian restaurant. 8. To learn about things of the past I must go the. 9. the phone booth I will be the hotel and town hall. 10. the club is the church and the. G. Fill in an appropriate interjection.

4 English Language 4 Grade 6 H. Identify the conjunction in each sentence and state which type of conjunction it is. Example: Jack painted the bathroom and the hallway. and, coordinating conjunction 1. Although the car was new, it did not work very well. 2. After Kyle refused the salad served with the meal, he then would not touch the green vegetables put on his plate. 3. Whether I stay home or not I still have to wash my hair. 4. I have to clean my own shoes whenever I dirty them. 5. At a red light, Maria jumped out of Martin's car and slammed the door, for she could not tolerate one more minute of the heavy metal music that he insisted on blasting from the stereo. I. Write in your own words what the 2 different types of articles are. _ Name the part of speech of the underlined word: 1. The worst teacher quickly gave the students homework. 2. Hey! Be, careful, my phone is under your chair! 3. The records indicate that the first fight with boxing gloves was fought in 1818 in France. 4. "Ordinarily, I would not leave so soon, but I have so much to do," he told his host. 5. Oh, she and young John walk to school slowly!

5 English Language 5 Grade 6 Crossword puzzle: Across 4 Names a person, place or thing. (boy, ball) 7 A short exclamation. (Hi!, Ouch!) 8 Substitutes a noun or a noun phrase to show another name for a person, place or thing. (he, whom) 9 The part of speech that describes a verb, adjective or adverb. (very, rapidly) Down 1 Describes a noun. 2 A word that joins two parts of a sentence. 3 A word that connects a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence. (before, into) 5 A word that is put next to a noun. 6 An action word.

6 English Language 6 Grade 6 MEMO A. Nouns - Complete the table: SENTENCE WORD TYPE OF NOUN The main hallway of the Sternwood Place was two stories high. hallway Sternwood Place Proper noun garage In the front of the garage, a young chauffeur in shiny black leggings, all happiness, dusting a maroon BMW 320i. chauffeur leggings happiness Abstract noun BMW 320i Proper noun doors troop of elephants Collective noun Over the doors, which would have let in a troop of elephants, there was a broad panel showing a knight in dark armour. The shining of his sword almost blinding. panel knight armour shining Gerund sword B. Pronouns - Fill in an appropriate pronoun. Sandy went to the park with her mother and father. She / They ran on the lawn. Then her father pushed her on the swings while her mother smiled and watched. She spread out a blanket on the lawn and read a book while Sandy and her father played catch with a ball. Sandy threw hers/ it too hard, and her father had to chase after it. Sandy did some somersaults, rolling forward on her head and kicking her feet up over her head. She giggled and lay on the grass until her dad came back. All three of them ate sandwiches together before they went back home. C. Verbs - Circle the verb that best fits: 1. Mrs. Merit will (teach, taught) us to do subtraction. 2. He came from a poor immigrant family and (growed, grew) up in Chicago. 3. An hoax posing as a virus advisory (is, are, am) surfing across the Internet. 4. The sly squirrel (stealed, stole) seeds from the bird feeder. 5. The roses (is, are, am) in blossom this month.

7 English Language 7 Grade 6 Helping verbs: fill in the correct verb on the line. 1. Mary and Larry are helping Mr Anderson. 2. Trudy had to/needed to bake the cakes yesterday. 3. Lori can/will/must clean her room tonight. 4. Will you be planting spinach in the vegetable garden? 5. She will overcome all the obstacles ahead of her. D. Adjectives - Describe the noun: Positive: happy, fortunate, comfortable, bountiful, content, sufficient, cheerful, wealthy Negative: greedy, dishonest, materialistic, wicked, obsessed, poaching, ungrateful, sly, poor, needy Comparative: lots - more - the most wealthy - wealthier wealthiest little - less - least happy - happier - happiest E. Adverbs - Directions: Read the sentence. Then read the question. Write the adverb on the line. 1. The kids go everywhere to skate. Where do the kids go to skate? Everywhere 2. There is a skate park nearby. Where is the skate park? Nearby 3. You should not skate inside. Where should you not skate? Inside Sort the following words into the correct column:...of time...of place of manner...of number...of degree...of frequency soon nowhere carefully lastly much now tomorrow somewhere easily aforementioned very seldom gladly always

8 English Language 8 Grade 6 F. Prepositions - Using the map below, fill in the missing prepositions. 1. The school is next to the theatre. 2. The hospital is opposite the supermarket car park. 3. The Korean restaurant is between the bank and the library. 4. The park is behind me. 5. Palm street and Lane street are parallel to each other. 6. The art gallery is in Queen avenue. 7. From the vet, I have to walk past the aquarium to get to the Italian restaurant. 8. To learn about things of the past I must go to the museum. 9. At the phone booth I will be between the hotel and town hall. 10. Next to the club is the church and the hospital. H. Interjection - Fill in an appropriate interjection. Die! Huff! Hooray! Oops! Ah! Yeah! I. Conjunction - Identify the conjunction in each sentence, state which type of conjunction it is. Example: Jack painted the bathroom and the hallway. and, coordinating conjunction 1. Although the car was new, it did not work very well. Although, subordinating conjunction 2. After Kyle refused the salad served with the meal, he then would not touch the green vegetables put on his plate. After, subordinating conjunction 3. Whether I stay home or not I still have to wash my hair. Whether...or, correlative conjunction 4. I have to clean my own shoes whenever I dirty them. Whenever, subordinating 5. At a red light, Maria jumped out of Martin's car and slammed the door, for she could not tolerate one more minute of the heavy metal music that he insisted on blasting from the stereo. For, coordinating conjunction J. Articles - Write in your words what the 2 different types of articles are. Articles signal that a noun will follow. Definite article is the and indefinite articles are a and an

9 English Language 9 Grade 6 Name the part of speech of the underlined word: 1. The worst teacher quickly gave the students homework. worst = comparative adjective, gave = verb 2. Hey! Be, careful, my phone is under your chair! Hey! = interjection, is = aux verb, under = preposition 3. The records indicate that the first fight with boxing gloves was fought in 1818 in France. The = definite article, first = adjective describing the fight, boxing = adjective describing the gloves 4. "Ordinarily, I would not leave so soon, but I have so much to do," he told his host. Ordinarily = adverb of manner, but = coordinating conjunction, he = pronoun 5. Oh, she and young John walk to school slowly! Oh = interjection, she = pronoun, and = conjunction, young = adjective, John = proper noun, walk = verb, to = preposition, school = common noun, slowly = adverb of manner CROSSWORD: