Assignment #1 Subject and Predicate and Parts of Speech – Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs

Activity Sheet #1

Subject and Predicate

Parts of Speech – Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs

Riddle

Instructions: Print this activity sheet and using your ball pens, identify the nouns, pronouns and verbs in each sentence. Mark the nouns red, pronouns blue, and verbs yellow. Underline once the subject and double underline the predicate. Take a photo of your answers in the activity sheet and submit or send the answer before Wednesday next week (7/20/16).

Guide:

Definition:

1)    Noun- a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places

2)    Pronoun – a word that substitutes for a noun or a noun phrase

3)    Verb- a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence.

4)    Subject- the subject is always a noun or a noun phrase. It typically performs the action expressed by the verb.

5)    Predicate- It usually starts with a verb and when there is a verb, there must be a subject. So predicate is everything that is not the subject.

1)      It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you’ll die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing.

2)     It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it?
Answer: Man

3)     I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?
Answer: The letter e. End, timE, spacE, Every place

4)     I never was, am always to be.

No one ever saw me, nor ever will.

And yet I am the confidence of all,

To live and breath on this terrestrial ball.

What am I?
Answer: Tomorrow or the future.

5)     The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness

6)     What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny

7)     If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter.
Answer:  Your heart

8)    Until I am measured I am not known,
Yet how you miss me when I have flown.
Answer: Time

9)     I’m full of holes, yet I’m full of water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge