Finding Nouns and Verbs 3

What is the difference between a noun and a compound noun?

A noun is a word or set of words for a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun of more than one word (tennis court, gas station) is called a compound noun.

• They are the same thing

• A noun has more than one word

• A compound noun has more than one word

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What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?

There are common nouns and proper nouns. Common nouns are words for a general class of people, places, things, an ideas (man, city, award, honesty). They are not capitalized. Proper nouns are always capitalized. They name specific people, places, and things (Joe, Chicago,

Academy Award).

• They are the same thing

• Common nouns are words for a general class of people, places, things, and ideas. Proper nouns are for specific people, places, and things.

• Common nouns are words for a general class of people, places, things, and ideas, and are not capitalized. Proper nouns are for specific people, places, and things and are capitalized.

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What is a verb?

A verb is a word or set of words that shows action (runs, is going, has been painting); feeling (loves, envies), or state of being (am, are, is, have been, was, seem).

• A word that functions the same as a noun.

• A word that shows action and feelings.

• A word that shows actions, feelings, or a state of being.

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What are State-of-Being verbs called?

State-of-being verbs re called linking verbs. They include all forms of the verb to be, plus such words as look, feel, appear, act, go, followed by an adjective.

• linking verbs

• phrasal verbs

• helping verbs

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What is the difference between a phrasal verb and a helping verb?

Verbs often consist of more than word. For instance, had been breaking down is a four-word verb. It has a two-word main verb, breaking down (also called a phrasal verb) , and two helping verbs (had and been). Helping verbs are so named because they help clarify the intended meaning.

• A phrasal verb is a two-word verb, and a helping verb clarify meaning.

• A phrasal verb helps clarify meaning, and a helping verb is a two-word verb.

• A phrasal verb is a sentence, and a helping verb is a word.

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What is a subject?

• A subject is a noun, pronoun, or set of words that performs the verb.

• A noun, or pronoun

• A verb

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How do you find the subject of a sentence?

• Find the verb first, then ask who or what performed the verb.

• Find the noun first, then ask what is he, she, or it doing.

• Find the helping verb, and the phrasal verb in a sentence.

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Identify the correct subjects and verbs. The subjects are in bold and the verbs are underlined.

• I was pleased to learn of her good fortune.

• I was pleased to learn of her good fortune

• I was pleased to learn of her good fortune

Identify the correct subjects and verbs. The subjects are in bold and the verbs are underlined.

• Bill is competing against twenty others to win the chess tournament.

• Bill is competing against twenty others to win the chess tournament.

• Bill is competing against twenty others to win the chess tournament.

• Bill is competing against twenty others to win the chess tournament.

Identify the correct subjects and verbs. The subjects are in bold and the verbs are underlined.

• The doctor told Jim to step on the scale.

• The doctor told Jim to step on the scale.

• The doctor told Jim to step on the scale.