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Take place of a nouns

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Pronouns

Holidays: Christmas, New Year’s Day, Hanukkah, Thanksgiving Geographical areas: San Francisco, Europe, Spain, the Nile

River People and pets: Mrs. Caroline Jones, Rip Van Winkle, Snoopy Books, Newspapers, Magazines: Wuthering Heights, Atlanta

Journal, Southern Living Companies and organizations: Google, ChildFund

International, General Electric Religious terms: Christian, Methodist, Hindu, God, Allah Places, buildings: Yellowstone National Park, Empire State

Building, Ritz-Carlton Titles: President Bush, King George, Queen Elizabeth, Judge

Judy (titles are not capitalized when they’re referred to in general terms.  For example: The criminal appeared before the judge.

Languages: English, French, Italian Brand names: Coach, Pepsi, Lucky

Proper Nouns

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Proper Nouns

Add an apostrophe s (‘s) to a singular noun to show possession

Ex. The girl’s dress was pretty. If the noun is plural, add an apostrophe after

the s (s’) Ex. The three girls’ dresses were yellow. If the plural noun does not end in s add an

apostrophe s (‘s) The children’s shirts were red.

Possessive Nouns

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Possessive Nouns

Regular Verbs

Regular Verbs Add “ed” to a regular

verb to show that something happened in the past

What are some examples of regular verbs?

Helping Verbs You can also use helping

verbs “have” “has” or “had” to show past tense

Ex. She has packed a lunch.Waves have pounded the shore.Penguins had jumped in the water.

Irregular Verbs

Past tense forms do not end in “ed”

These spellings must be studied and memorized

(they do not follow a specific pattern)

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Participles and participle phrases

Verb form used as an adjective

Past participle – add “ed”ex. The ants made bricks out of chewed dirt.

Present participle – add “ing”ex. The growing puppy

needed food.

Participle phrase – group of words that describe the noun

ex. Leaving the press conference, the politician felt confident about her answers.

What is the phrase and what does the phrase describe?

A memo sent to all the employees was well received.

The teacher's best lesson delivered to his eighth graders dealt with theme.

My dad's present, bought by his sisters, was a gold watch.

Acclaimed by many critics as the year's best movie, The Sound of Music won many awards.

The Sound of Music, acclaimed by many critics as the year's best movie, won many awards.

What is the participle phrase?