Study guide · Weekly Quiz 8
Grade 1 grammar · quiz is on Lesson 45 ·
this went home after Lesson 44
For the parent. Your child has been learning about verbs, adverbs. There is a short quiz tomorrow. It is low stakes and not graded — it is so the teacher can see who needs a little more help.
For you. Tomorrow's quiz is about verbs, adverbs. Here is what is on it.
Verb
What your child has been taught to say:
A verb is a word that tells what someone or something does.
The question they ask themselves:
“Can I put “I” in front of it?”
The boy ran to the door. → verb
Ask “Can I put “I” in front of it?” — it works, so it is verb.
think → verb
Ask “Can I put “I” in front of it?” — it works, so it is verb.
Watch for this: Misses being-verbs — “there's no verb, nobody does anything” — “Can you say I AM? Then it is a verb. It is a quiet one.”
Adverb
What your child has been taught to say:
A adverb is a word that tells more about the doing word — how, when, or where.
The question they ask themselves:
“How? When? Where?”
The boy walked slowly. → adverb
Ask “How? When? Where?” — it works, so it is adverb.
carefully → adverb
Ask “How? When? Where?” — it works, so it is adverb.
Watch for this: Calls an adjective an adverb because it sounds descriptive — “Is it telling you about a THING or about a DOING?” Two hands: flat palm for the thing, rolling hands for the doing.
Try these together
These are new sentences — your child has not seen them. Five minutes is plenty.
paint
hurry
gently
yesterday
Answers — for the grown-up helping
| 1 | the verb |
| 2 | the verb |
| 3 | the adverb |
| 4 | the adverb |
If it is hard: Pick up any book and read one sentence together. Ask the question in the blue box about one word in it. Five minutes is plenty — and if it is still hard tomorrow, please tell the teacher; there is a practice sheet for exactly this.