Name:___________________
Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar Rock! I. Adjectives: Unpack Your Adjectives
1. What is an adjective? _________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 2. List 4 adjectives that were used in the video: 1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________ 4. _________________ 3. You can add “-ary” to some nouns to turn them into adjectives, like station+ary=stationary. What are the 2 other endings mentioned in the video that can be added to nouns or verbs to turn them into adjectives? 1. ___________________ 2. ___________________ 4. Fill in the following chart, telling what adjectives were used to describe the verbs listed. Adjective Noun skunk boys bear Another noun that was used
II. Adverbs: Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here
5. What kinds of words can an adverb work with? _________________ ____________________ ________________
6. Adverbs can tell 5 things about the words they work with. One of those is “how” and another is “where”. What are the other 3? _________________ ____________________ ________________
7. Give 4 examples of adverbs from the video. 1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________ 4. _________________
8. What ending do most adverbs have? ___________
III. Conjunctions: Conjunction Junction
9. What does a conjunction do? ___________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 10. What are the 3 most common conjunctions? 1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________
11. What are 3 things that can be hooked up by conjunctions? 1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________ 12. Give some examples of conjunctions in action from the video: Milk and ___honey____
___________and ___________ ___________or ___________ ___________but ___________
13. Name 1 other conjunction that was mentioned in the video: __________________________
IV. Interjections: Interjections!
14. What is an interjection? ___________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 15. There are two ways that you can punctuate an interjection in a sentence. What are they? 1. ______________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________
16. The video gives examples of interjections that might be used for the following emotions. Complete the chart to show the interjections that the video showed for each emotion. Emotion glad excited mad frightened sad happy Interjection
V. Pronouns: Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
17. What does a pronoun do? _____________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 18. Beside each of the following nouns, write one or more pronouns that the video uses to replace it. Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla kangaroo Rafaella Gabriela Sarsaparilla aardvark Albert Andreas Armadillo
19. Name 3 special pronouns that can ask a question: 1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________
VI. Verbs: Verb--That’s What’s Happening
20. What is a verb? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 21. Name 3 verbs that were used in the video: 1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________
22. How do you make a noun into a verb? The video gave 3 examples. List one of them. _____________________________________________________
VII. Nouns: A Noun is a Person Place or Thing
23. What is a noun? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________
24. Give 3 examples of the following from the video: noun that names a person noun that names a place 1. ______________ 2. ______________ 3. ______________
noun that names a thing
1. ________________ 1.________________ 2.________________ 2. _______________ 3. ________________ 3. _______________
VIII. Prepositions: Busy Prepositions
25. What is a preposition? _______________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 26. Name 4 of the most common prepositions (the video lists 11). 1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________ 4. _________________
27. What do the “P’s” (prepositions) have to carry along in the video? ___________________________________________________________ 28. Fill in the blanks to show examples of prepositional phrases from the video. _____on______ _____with______ _____over______ _____into______ _______the_______ _________________ _________________ _________________ ________top______ _________________ _________________ _____________________