Word Classes

What is a noun?

• Name of a person, place or thing

• Describes a person

• Describes an action

• Describes the manner in which an action is performed

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

What is an adjective

• Name of a person, place or thing

• Describes a noun

• Describes an action

• Describes the manner in which an action is performed

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

What is an adverb?

• Name of a person, place or thing

• Describes a noun

• Provides an action

• Describes the manner in which an action is performed

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

What is a verb?

• Name of a person, place or thing

• Describes a noun

• Describes an action

• Describes the manner in which an action is performed

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

What is personification?

• Comparing two things by saying they are that thing

• Giving an inanimate object human traits

• Comparing two things using 'as' or 'like'

• Sound verb

What is sensory detail?

• Exaggerated language

• Language used to create an emotional response from the reader.

• The repetition of the 's' sound.

• The use of the five senses to add detailed description.

What is the word class of the word in red?

Everyone inside the barricade is a child. Toddlers to teenagers. Scared and frostbitten. Huddled in groups or rocking numbly on the ground.

• Adjective

• Noun

• Verb

• Adverb

What is the word class of the word in red?

Everyone inside the barricade is a child. Toddlers to teenagers. Scared and frostbitten. Huddled in groups or rocking numbly on the ground.

• Adjective

• Noun

• Verb

• Adverb

What is the word class of the word in red?

Everyone inside the barricade is a child. Toddlers to teenagers. Scared and frostbitten. Huddled in groups or rocking numbly on the ground.

• Adjective

• Noun

• Verb

• Adverb

What is the word class of the word in red?

Everyone inside the barricade is a child. Toddlers to teenagers. Scared and frostbitten. Huddled in groups or rocking numbly on the ground.

• Adjective

• Noun

• Verb

• Adverb