Name:______EN 8
Ms. McCann
Giggles in the Middle 25-32– Caught’ya Grammar
25. after that incident everyone quieted down turned his or her face towards the stage and paid heed to mr punctilious principal as he instructed students on where to go and what to do next. i hope me and my friends are in the same homeroom too whispered isabelle ingenuous too her too freinds olivia otiose and pauline puerile
Incident
Paid heed
Rule # 22: Use commas to separate verbs lists.
Rule # 23: Put commas around the word ‘too’ when it means ‘also’
Extra Info:
Parts of Speech: in the English language there are eight parts of speech – Pronoun, Adjective, Verb, Preposition, Adverb, Noun, Interjection, and Conjunction. You can remember them by memorizing the following acronym: PAVPANIC
Verb: Are words that express an action or state of being.
Verbs can be categorized by tense. The three main tenses are past, present and future.
Action / State of BeingPast / They walked to the movie. / I was crazy.
Present / They walk to the movie. / I am crazy.
Future / They will walk to the movie. / I will be crazy.
Task: In Caught’ya # 25 circle all the verbs you can find. Remember to look for action words as well as state of being.
26. finally the assembly was over and teachers filed out directed the striplings to the homeroom lists on the walls of the eighth grade hall and then pointed out the various classrooms
Striplings
Task: In Caught’ya # 26 circle all the verbs you can find. Remember to look for action words as well as state of being.
27. the intrepid group who had begun the first day of school together found themselves in the same homeroom. there teacher was a very stern looking man mr math martinet who promptly announced that he also was their math teacher
Intrepid
Stern
Martinet
Remember: Put commas around extra information in a sentence.
Extra Info:
Noun: A person, place, thing or idea.
There are four main types of nouns.
1) Proper nouns are words that name specific people, places, etc.
Example -- Stephen Harper, Canada, British Columbia
Example -- ______
2) Common Nouns are words that name types of people, places, etc.
Example -- shovel, apple, dog, town, country, province
Example -- ______
3) Concrete Nouns are words that name things that can be detected by the senses.
Examples -- train, bus, Sam, Jennifer, candy, pizza
Example -- ______
4) Abstract Nouns are words that name things that cannot be detected by the senses (ideas).
Examples -- courage, love, justice, wisdom
Example -- ______
28. he told the students too that he would tolerate no shenanigans and then he confiscated a cell phone from quincy querulous, a student in the back of the room who made faces as his cell phone was taken opened his mouth as if to argue and then thought better of it. hey pauline thats the teacher who stuck his tongue out articulated felicia fey to her puerile friend who was crying silently
Shenanigans
Confiscated
Querulous
Task: In Caught’ya #28 circle all the nouns you can find.
29. william waggish worried about pauline whispered another of his inimitable limericks, this won about a malevolent math teacher called wrathful math and faint curls of smoke wisped from mr math martinets ears, and his eyelids fluttered too
The nasty, male teacher of math
Was utterly filled with such wrath
He yelled at the boys
And stifled their joys.
He took a malevolent path.
Inimitable
Malevolent
Wrathful
Wrath
Stifled
Task: In Caught’ya # 29 circle all of the proper nouns.
30. at this you could have heard a pin drop as the students mouths gaped open at their peers boldness and there teachers antics. the class waited for william’s painful demise at the hands of their stern uncompromising teacher
Peers
Demise
Uncompromising
Remember: Use an apostrophe to show possession!
Task: In Caught’ya 30 circle all of the verbs you can find.
31. nothing happened. absolutely nothing after fewer than three seconds mr math martinet resumed his announcements as if he neither had been interrupted nor had wisps of smoke emitting from his ears
Resumed
Emitting
Extra Info:
Sentence Fragments: a sentence fragments is an incomplete sentence. Sometimes authors use sentence fragments for emphasis.
Task:
Look in Caught’ya # 31 and find any sentence fragments. Write the sentence fragment(s) below.
32. after he went over the school rules mr math martinet handed out a schedule and a map of the school to everyone. as soon as the students schedules were in theyre hands pandemonium broke out as everyone tried to see who was in their classes
Pandemonium
Rule # 24: Use a comma after an incomplete thought at the beginning of a sentence (a subordinate clause).
Ex. After Ms. McCann ate too much, she decided that she needed to lie down.
Task: In Caught’ya #32 circle all of the common nouns.
Let’s review some of what we’ve learned
1. What are the two parts of speech we have reviewed?
2. What are the four types of nouns we have learned about? Give one example for each type of noun. Do not copy my examples!
3. Explain a comma rule we have learned and give an example.
4. Choose two vocabulary words and try to use them both in one sentence.
5. Write a sentence. Circle all of the nouns and verbs in your sentence.
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