Study guide · Weekly Quiz 1 — Grade 2
Grade 1 grammar · quiz is on Lesson 5 ·
this went home after Lesson 4
For the parent. Your child has been learning about adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, pronouns. 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 adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, pronouns. Here is what is on it.
Adjective
What your child has been taught to say:
A adjective is a word that tells us more about a naming word.
The question they ask themselves:
“Which one? What kind? How many?”
The small boy carried a heavy bag. → adjective
Ask “Which one? What kind? How many?” — it works, so it is adjective.
yellow → adjective
Ask “Which one? What kind? How many?” — it works, so it is adjective.
Watch for this: Marks the noun as the adjective — “Which one is the THING? Then the other one is telling you about 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.
shiny
crooked
paint
hurry
gently
yesterday
Answers — for the grown-up helping
| 1 | the adjective |
| 2 | the adjective |
| 3 | the verb |
| 4 | the verb |
| 5 | the adverb |
| 6 | 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.