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GRAMMAR LISTS AND IDENTIFICATIONS
Miss Olson
Printable Grammar Sheet
COMMONLY USED PREPOSITIONS
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aboard
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along
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before
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between
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despite
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from
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of
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over
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till
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up
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about
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amid
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behind
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beyond
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down
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in
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off
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past
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to
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upon
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above
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among
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below
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but
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during
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inside
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on
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round
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toward
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with
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across
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around
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beneath
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by
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except
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into
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onto
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save
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under
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within
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after
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as
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beside
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concerning
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excepting
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like
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opposite
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since
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until
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without
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against
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at
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besides
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considering
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for
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near
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out
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through
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unto
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PREPOSITIONS OF MORE THAN ONE WORD
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according to
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apart from
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by means of
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from between
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in front of
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inside of
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on behalf of
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owing to
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across from
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aside from
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down from
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from under
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in place of
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instead of
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on top of
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prior to
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alongside of
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away from
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except for
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in addition to
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in regard to
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near to
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outside of
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round about
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along with
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because of
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from among
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in behalf of
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in spite of
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on account of
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over to
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together with
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HELPING VERBS
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am
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be
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do
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has
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may
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is
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being
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does
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have
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might
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are
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been
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did
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had
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must
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was
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can
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shall
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will
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were
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could
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should
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would
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SENSE LINKING VERBS
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appear
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feel
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look
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seem
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sound
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stay
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turn
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become
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grow
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remain
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smell
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stand
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taste
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Subject - The noun or pronoun that tells you whom or what the sentence is about.
Ask yourself: Whom or what is the sentence about?
Verb - Tells you what the subject does or is.
Ask yourself: What does the subject do or have?
Action Verb- Names an action you can imagine going on.
Direct Object - Receives the action of a verb. Ask yourself: Whom? or What? after the action verb.
Indirect Object - An indirect object answers the question To whom? or For whom the action was done.
Linking Verb - Connects the subject of the sentence with a noun or adjective in the predicate.
Predicate Adjective- An adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject
Predicate Noun- A noun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject
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Adjectives
Describe: nouns, pronouns
Tell: which one
what kind
how many
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Adverbs
Describe: verbs, adjectives, adverbs
Tell: how
when
where
to what extent (0-------100%)
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Identifying Parts of Speech
Steps to identifying words in sentences:
1. Underline subject once
2. Underline verb twice
- Label AV (Action Verb)
or LV (Linking Verb)
3. Put parentheses around (prepositional phrases)
Label preposition (PR) and object of preposition (OP)
4. Search for possible direct objects or predicate words
Action Verbs (AV): -Label Direct Object (DO), Label Indirect Object (IO)
-Draw an arrow from the action verb to the direct object
or
Linking Verbs (LV): -Label predicate adjective (PA)
-Label predicate noun ( PN)
-Draw an arrow from the predicate word to the subject
5. Circle conjunctions - and, but, or
*Check to see that the same parts of speech and usage are connected
6. Label Adjectives (Adj) and Adverbs (Adv)
Draw a line from the adjective or adverb to the word it describes
7. Cross out articles - (X) - a, an, the
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Pronouns
Singular Pronouns
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Subject
Pronouns
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Possessive
Pronouns
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Object
Pronouns
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First Person
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I
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my, mine
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me
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Second Person
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you
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your, yours
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you
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Third Person
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he
she
it
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his
her, hers
its
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him
her
it
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Plural Pronouns
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Subject
Pronouns
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Possessive
Pronouns
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Object
Pronouns
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First Person
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we
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our, ours
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us
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Second Person
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you
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your, yours
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you
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Third Person
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they
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their, theirs
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them
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who, whose, whom, which, what, that, whoever, whomever, whatever, whichever
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who, whose, whom, which, what
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myself, himself, herself, itself, yourself, themselves, ourselves
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all
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both
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everything
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nobody
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several
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another
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each
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few
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none
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some
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any
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each one
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many
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no one
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somebody
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anybody
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either
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most
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nothing
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someone
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anyone
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everybody
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much
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one
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something
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anything
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everyone
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neither
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other
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such
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