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Vocabulary
- Identify
- Role
- Noun
- Verb
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Pronoun
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Information
- Conveys
Knowledge
- There are different types of words within a sentence, and each word provides a particular type of information.
- The role of a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, and conjunction within a sentence.
Skills
- Identify a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, and conjunction in a sentence.
- Explain the type of information nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions provides in a sentence.
Understanding
- Each word in a sentence plays an important role in conveying meaning.
- A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea and tells who or what the sentence is about.
- A verb expresses an action or a state of being and tells what the noun is doing.
- An adjective describes a noun or a pronoun and tells attributes of the noun.
- An adverb describes a verb, adjective, or adverb, and provides more description about another word in the sentence.
- A pronoun can be used in place of a noun.
- A preposition is placed before a noun or pronoun to create a prepositional phrase that modifies (changes the meaning of) another word in the sentence.
- A conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses and indicates the relationship between the joined units; there are coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions.
