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2nd grade Grammer
| Define a sentence | A group of words that express a complete thought. It begins with a capital letter ends with a end mark. |
| Define a statement or declarative sentence | A sentence that explains or tells what someone or something does. It ends with a period (.) |
| Define an interrogative sentence or a question | A sentence that ask something. It ends with a question mark (?) |
| Define an exclamatory sentence | A sentence that shows strong feelings, such as surprise, excitement, or fear. It ends with an exclamation point (!) |
| Define an imperative sentence or a command | A sentence that tells someone to do something. It ends with either a period ( . )or an exclamation point (!) |
| What are 4 different kinds of sentences | A statement or declarative sentence, question or interrogative sentence, exclamatory sentence, command or imperative sentence . |
| Define a common noun | It is a word that names person, place or thing. |
| Define a proper noun | It is a word that names a specific person, place or thing. Proper nouns are always capitalized. |
| Give some examples of proper nouns | EX: Names of holidays, months, and days of the week. Also cities and states Titles of books, movies, TV shows, magazine, and newspaper. Titles of peoples names ( Mr.) initials in peoples names ( E. B. Chacko) |
| give an example of possessive noun | Jennifer’s mother. Possessive nouns ends in and apostrophe s (‘s). a plural possessive noun ends in just an apostrophe (‘ ) ex. The books’ convers were torn. A possessive word shows ownership |
| Define an adjective | It describes a noun. |
| example of adjective | color, size and number. It can tell you how nouns look, feel, taste smell or sound. |
| Define a pronoun | A word that can take place of a noun. |
| example of possessive pronoun | it takes the place of a possessive noun. But there is no apostrophe (‘) at the end. Ex. Singular possessive noun. Jennfer’s mother works at library. Her mother works at library. Ex of plural possessive noun. The books’ covers were torn. Their covers we |
| Define a subject | it tells who or what a sentence is about. It always has noun or pronoun in it. |
| What are 3 different kinds of verb | action verb, linking verb, helping verb. |
| Define an action verb | It is an action word. It tells what someone or something does. Some times verbs don’t show action. These verbs are called linking and helping verbs |
| What does a linking verb do give an example | it connect parts of sentence to make it complete. Ex. There is a pretty shell on the beach. IS don’t show any action |
| What does helping verb do and give an example | it helps the main verb tell something that has happened, is happening or will happen. Ex. We are planning to look for shells tomorrow. Are don’t show action. |
| What are 3 different tenses of verbs | Present tense, past tense and future tense. |
| What does a present – tense verb tells you | What action is happening now. |
| What does a past tense verb tell you | What action happened in the past. You can add ed to the end of the verb to make it a past tense verb. |
| What are 2 different kinds of verb | regular and irregular verbs. |
| Example of an irregular verb | To Have, to be . |
| What is the past tense of the irregular verb to have in this sentence I have | I had |
| What is the past tense of the irregular verb to have in this sentence You have | you had |
| What is the past tense of the irregular verb to have in this sentence He/ she/ it has | He/ she/it had |
| What is the past tense of the irregular verb to have in this sentence We/ they have | We / they had |
| What is the past tense of the irregular verb to be in this sentence I am | I was. |
| What is the past tense of the irregular verb to be in this sentence you are | you were |
| What is the past tense of the irregular verb to be in this sentence He/she/it is | He/ she/ it was. |
| What is the past tense of the irregular verb to be in this sentence we/ they are | we / they were. |
| What are Inflectional endings | add ing or ed added ot the base word. Ing lets you know something is happening now. Ed lets you know something has already happened. Ex walking and walked |
| How do you make comparative ending | by adding er to the base word. It show a comparison between 2 things. Ex fast and faster. |
| define a compound sentence | a compound sentence is made when 2 sentences with similar ideas are combined into one sentence. |
| Define conjunction | it is a word that connects wrods or ideas . ex and, or , but |
| Define a complete sentence | it has a subject and a predicate. |
| Define an incomplete sentence or a fragment and how do you correct it. | A subject or predicate is missing in a sentence. To correct it add the missing subject or predicate to the sentence. |
| Define a run on sentence and how do you correct it | These sentence has 2 or more subject or predicate. 2 or more ideas are mixed together in a sentence. To correct a run on sentence write 2 sentence |
| What are 2 different parts of a sentence | subject and predicate. |
| What does subject part of a sentence tell you | It tells you what the sentence is about. |
| What does the predicate part of a sentence tells you | It tells you what a subject does. |
| Define adverb | It tells where, when or how something happens. It tells more about a verb. |
| example of adverbs | tomorrow |
| What is subject verb agreement | A sentence has a subject and a verb that agree. This means that the subject and the verb both must be singular or they must both be plural. If the subject of a sentence is singular, the verb must be singular. If the subject of a sentence is plural, the ve |
| how do you make plural and irregular plurals | plural shows that there is more than one. Add s or es to a word makes it a regular plural . Instead of adding and s and es , the entire word is changed to make irregual plural. Ex man is singular and men is plural. |
| Define synonymes and give example | These are words that are similar in meaning. Tired and sleepy are synonymes.[ Define antonyms and give examples |
| Define compound words and give example | A compound words are made when 2 words are put together to make a new word. Ex. Dog + house gives doghouse |
| what is a contraction and give example | A contraction is a shortened form of a pair of words. It makes writing sound more like a conversation. An apostrophe (‘ ) is used to show where a letter or letters have been removed. Here + is same as here’s . contractions can be formd by combining a pr |
| What is the begging of a friendly letter is called | greeting or salutation. Ist word of the greeting begins with capital and a comma is written after the name in the greeting. Ex Dear Frog, |
| What is the end of the friendly letter called | closing. The first word of closing begins with a capital. And a comma is written after a closing. Your name is written under the closing. Ex Love, Nevan |
| what is a prefix | it is added to the beginning of a word and changes the meaning of that word. Ex . dis-like. |
| what is suffix | it is added to the end of a word and it does not change the meaning of the word . ex sad –ness |
| define an open syllable | it occurs when a syllable ends in a vowel. The vowel in an open syllable is usually long. Ex . di-ner |
| define a closed syllable | it occurs when a vowel is followed by a consoneant and the vowel usually has a short sound. Ex win – ter |
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