Grammar Review- 3rd Grade, Unit 3, Lesson 12

Grammar
Review

Human Body Unit

3rd Grade

Common

Nouns

Names of people, places, and things (general,

not specific)

Multiple Choice

Which word is NOT a common noun?

• boat

• speak

• boy

• school

Proper
Nouns

Names of people, places, and things

(specific, not general)

Multiple Choice

Which word is NOT a proper noun?

• Ms. Conner

• Mrs. Yonick

• Winding Creek Elementary

• space

Names of people, places,

and things that can be

detected using a person’s

five senses

CONCRETE NOUNS

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a concrete noun?

• happiness

• pride

• milk

• anger

●
Names of Emotions/feelings

●
States/attributes

●
ideas/concepts

●
movements/events that can’t be detected by a
person’s five senses

ABSTRACT NOUNS

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an abstract noun?

• pain

• axial bones

• cerebrum

• iris

Action Verbs

●

Verbs that show action

Open Ended

Give me an example of an action verb.

Linking Verbs

Linking words that join the predicate to

the subject it describes.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a linking verb?

• walk

• talk

• feels

• sing

Adjectives

Words that describe
nouns, often telling
how many, color,
shape, size, etc.

Labeling

Label 1 adjective, 1 noun, and 1 verb.

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noun

adjective

verb

Subject

The part of the sentence that tells
the ‘who’ or ‘what’ the sentence is
about

Open Ended

What is the subject in this sentence?

The cows needed to be milked.

Predicates

The part of the sentence that

tells the action, the “what is

happening. The predicate
often begins with the verb.

Open Ended

What is the predicate in this sentence?

Skelly moves around our classroom.

Fragment

A group of words that isn’t a
complete thought and lacks
either a subject or predicate

Open Ended

Take this fragment and make it a complete sentence. Retype it AS A COMPLETE SENTENCE:

My math book

A group of words

that has one subject

and one predicate

Simple Sentence

Two or more simple sentences that run together
because they are capitalized or punctuated
incorrectly.

Run-on Sentences

Open Ended

Look at the run-on sentence. Correct it by including correct punctuation and capitalization.

Paragraphs

One sentence, usually the first,
that tells the main idea, or what
the paragraph is mostly about.

One sentence, always the last,
that wraps up the paragraph; it

does not restate new

information; it often restates the

topic sentence

Topic Sentence

Concluding Sentence

Labeling

Drag the Topic Sentence label over the topic sentence and the Concluding Sentence label over the concluding sentence.

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Concluding Sentence

Topic Sentence

Irrelevant Sentences

Doesn’t relate to the topic sentence, and
should not be included in the paragraph