Grammar Catch Phrase

Core Test Grammar Review

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In the following slides, your knowledge of parts of speech, sentence structures, commas, adverbs, colons, and parentheses will be tested in an effort to prepare you for the core test. With each word you see on the following slides, you will need to either define it or give an example of it. After you finish, the person next to you will do the next word and so on. The trick is to answer as many as you can before the timer rings, and you don’t want the timer to ring while it is your turn or the other team wins a point. Good luck!

DAY’S MARKET

TO WANDER

GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF USING PARENTHESES.

THOUGH I LOVE SUMMER I DO NOT LIKE ALL THE BUGS THAT COME OUT.

LIST ONE COLON RULE.

ADJECTIVE

I RAN A MARATHON, AND I TOOK 1ST PLACE.

INFINITIVE VERB PHRASE

FOURTEEN

GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF USING A COMMA WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PHRASE

A popover has four common ingredients flour, milk, salt, and butter.

RUNNING

TO SWIM

HIKE

BLUE

PRONOUN

THEY

HE

THAT

A, AN, THE

FOR, AND, NOR, BUT, OR, YET, SO

OVER

NOUN

IN

WAS HIKING

BY

ADVERB

IS

THROUGH

ABOVE

YIKES!

WAS

AM RUNNING

WOW!

RUNNING SHOES

BECAUSE, SINCE

HIKING BOOTS

HELPING VERB

I RAN A MARATHON.

INTERJECTIONS

WHEN I WAS FIFTY, I RAN A MARATHON, AND I ST TOOK 1 PLACE.

PREPOSITION

WHEN I WAS FIFTY, I RAN A MARATHON.

CONJUNCTION

DOG

SIMPLE SENTENCE

LINKING VERB

GERUND

COMPOUND SENTENCE

PARTICIPLE

COMPOUND COMPLEX SENTENCE

GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF USING A COMMA WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PHRASE

DURING LUNCH I ATE PIZZA.

COMPLEX SENTENCE

WHILE SLEDDING BEHIND THE FOUR-WHEELER JEN BROKE HER ARM.

WHEN I WAS 12 I WAS AFRAID OF SPIDERS.

WHILE RIDING HIS BIKE JACK RAN OVER A SKUNK.

WHAT IS AN ADVERB?

JACK WHO HAS ORANGE SHOELACES IS FIFTEEN.

A _____ is a signal that something is to follow: a rephrased statement, a list, or a formal quotation. Use a ______ if you can insert namely after it. 

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Use a _____ at the end of a complete statement to show anticipation—that is, to show that amplifying details follow, such as a list, a series of items, a formal quotation, or an explanation. 

DURING THE MOVIE I STARTED TO CRY.

After five minutes of silence, the actor uttered those famous words “To be or not to be; that is the question.”

GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF AN ADVERB.

LIST ONE COLON RULE.

Of all the gauges in an airplane cockpit, three are crucial the altimeter, the gas gauge, and the crashwarning indicator.

MY MOM THE BEST COOK IN THE ENTIRE WORLD BOUGHT A NEW DRESS.

LIST ONE COLON RULE.

ACTION VERB

WHEN DO YOU USE PARENTHESES?

OH!

AM

SOFT

ARTICLE