conjunctions and interjections

What does a conjunction do?  What is its purpose?

• Connects words, phrases, and clauses.
• Connects the first sentence and the last sentence of a paragraph.
• Connects all the nouns in a sentence.
• Connects all the verbs in a sentence.

What does an interjection do?  What is its purpose?

• Ends a sentence with emotion.
• Begins a sentence with emotion.
• Inserts emotion in the middle of a sentence.
• Begins a sentence with a name.

Compete the sentences with the coordinating conjunctions that make sense.  
The weather today will be cool _________ rainy.

• or
• and
• but
• so

Tags

CCSS.W.8.4

Oh my gosh!  Are you okay?
The red text is an example of:

• Conjunction
• Interjection
• Preposition
• Title

Which sentence correctly uses an interjection?

• The team won the awesome game.
• The awesome team won the game.
• Awesome! The team won the game.
• The team awesomely won the game.

An interjection is ...

• a type or preposition
• a word or words that express emotion
• a person, place, thing or idea
• a type of punctuation

The following in an example of an interjection:

• Sure
• And
• Oops!
• Also

The following is NOT an example of an interjection.

• Eat!
• Yay!
• Wow!
• Hey!

Fill in the blank.
______!  That is the most beautiful sunset I've ever seen!

• Oh no!
• Oops!
• Yuck!
• Oh my!

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the purpose of the following interjection?
Good grief!  I thought we wouldn't have so much homework on Friday!

• to show agreement
• to show excitement
• to show anger
• to show relief

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4