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Grammar Slammer!. Try to guess the meanings of the words on each slide. Use your word Splash answers ONLY if needed You must do 3 push-ups for each incorrect answer! ;) (Well, okay…nobody’s really watching!). The Game with Pain!. Tables, fences, people…. Plural nouns. Verbs.
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Grammar Slammer! • Try to guess the meanings of the words on each slide. • Use your word Splash answers ONLY if needed • You must do 3 push-ups for each incorrect answer! ;) (Well, okay…nobody’s really watching!) The Game with Pain!
Tables, fences, people… Plural nouns
Verbs • Action words
PPTA Noun
Words that are opposite in meaning • antonyms
Only one thing… • Singular
Topic Sentence • A grabby first sentence of a paragraph
Beats in a word • Syllables
punctuation • comma • Period • Question mark • Exclamation mark • Colon • Quotation marks • Brackets • Apostrophe…
Sad, glad, huge, enormous, pleasant • adjectives
Aleah, Taijsha, Australia, Steinbach, Loewen Windows • Proper nouns
Happy-Excited synonym
Can’t, won’t, shouldn’t, hasn’t Contractions
ing, ed, es, s • suffixes
-A group of sentences-one topic-indented-punctuation and capitals • paragraph
Too, two, to • homonym
Thumb Space • indenting
Apostrophe • Used in contractions to replace letters • Used to show possessives • “Flying comma”
Doghouse, dollhouse, sandbox, racecar, superman, spiderman • Compound words
Big- Small Antonym
Guide words • 2 words at the top of each dictionary page that help you find words alphabetically.
Anti, sub, pro, in, un, mis prefix
Letters that come at the beginning of the word that usually change the meaning of the word… Prefix
A breath break comma
He, she, it, them, they pronoun
Two words put together using an apostrophe • contraction
Comma, period, apostrophe, exclamation mark, semi-colon… punctuation
Quickly, quietly, slowly, abruptly, clumsily, foolishly, hungrily… • adverbs
Usually ends in “ly” Adverbs
Jackson’s, Mr. Neufeld’sstudents’ • possessives