Grade 5 Grammar (1)

What is a noun?

• A noun is a doing word

• A noun names objects

• A noun describes objects

• A noun compares things

What is a proper noun?

• A proper noun names important things such as people or places

• A proper noun is just a fancy common noun

• A proper noun tells us the color of an object

• A proper noun describes a verb

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CCSS.RL.4.4

What is a verb?

• A verb describes objects

• A verb names objects

• A verb compares objects

• A verb is an action/doing word

An example of a suffix is...

• Bi+cycle

• Enjoy+ment

• Uses 'like' or 'as'

• Chara+ters

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CCSS.L.4.4B

What is a Prefix?

• A prefix is a group of letters that you put at the beginning of a word to make a different word

• A prefix is a group of letters that you out at the end of a word to make a different word

• A prefix fixes words and makes them sound correct

• A prefix goes at the end of a sentence

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CCSS.L.4.4B

Which of these figures of speech are examples of figurative language?

• Personification

• Idioms

• Similes

• Proverbs

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.4.5B

What is a personification?

• A personification is a direct comparison of something

• A personification gives human characteristics to something that is not human

• A personification are sayings that teach us something

• It is a short saying used to describe something

In your own words, give me an example of a personification

What is a Simile?

• It is a short saying used to describe something

• It compares two things

• It is a direct comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'

• It gives human characteristics to something

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CCSS.L.4.5A

In your own words, give an example of a Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A