Three Levels of Grammar

Part of Speech: Building the time machine took serious time, effort, and knowledge.

• Preposition / adjective

• Action verb / noun

• Linking verb / adverb

• Noun / adjective

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Part of Sentence: Building the time machine took serious time, effort, and knowledge.

• Subject

• Predicate

• Preposition

• Action Verb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

Part of Speech: The Time Traveler wanted to travel through time.

• Noun / adjective

• Adverb / action verb

• Subject / Direct object

• Proper noun / preposition

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

Part of Speech: The Time Traveler wanted to travel through time.

• Adjective / action verb

• Conjunction / preposition

• Interjection / noun

• Article / predicate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Part of Sentence: The Time Traveler wanted to travel through time

• Proper Noun

• Subject

• Predicate

• Direct Object

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

[EXPLAINING A SERIOUS MATTER,] the Time Traveler stood near the fire.

• Gerund

• Participle

• Preposition

• Infinitive

• Appositive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Explaining a serious matter, the Time Traveler stood [NEAR THE FIRE.]

• Gerund

• Participle

• Preposition

• Infinitive

• Appositive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

The Time Traveler wanted [TO TRAVEL] through time.

• Gerund

• Participle

• Preposition

• Infinitive

• Appositive

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

[BUILDING THE TIME MACHINE] took serious time, effort, and knowledge.

• Gerund

• Participle

• Preposition

• Infinitive

• Appositive

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

The main character, [THE TIME TRAVELER,] told his friends the story.

• Gerund

• Participle

• Preposition

• Infinitive

• Appositive

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B