Multi Sensory Grammar

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Multi Sensory Grammar

• Color Coding Sentences

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Nouns

• Nouns-They tell us things. They are the names of
  people, places, things, or ideas. They are
  colored yellow just as a yellow school crossing
  sign tells drivers to be aware of students that
  might be crossing the road. Nouns can be proper
  (Cache) or common (city). They can also be
  collective (team), abstract (love), or concrete
  (book).

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Verbs

• Verbs Show action or state of being. They tell
  you what is happening, so they are colored orange
  just like a detour sign.
• There are three types of verbs we will learn
  about this year action verbs, helping verbs and
  linking verbs. You will be receiving a list of
  helping and linking verbs.

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Articles

• These three little words (a, an, the)  are used
  often in the English language. Just as a red
  light warns of a railroad crossing, these words
  warn THERES A NOUN COMING!!!! They are color
  coded red and a red arrow goes from the noun
  marker to the noun it modifies (describes).

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Adjectives

• Adjectives (Ad-nouns)- Adjectives modify
  (describe) nouns. They answer the following 5
  questions
• Which one? What kind? How many? How much? Whose?
  
• They are color coded blue and have a blue arrow
  going from the adjective to the noun it is
  modifying.

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Prepositions

• Prepositions They are used to show the
  relationship between two things. A person can be
  on the house, in the house, by the house, past
  the house, near the house, etc. These are all
  prepositional phrases.
• A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition
  and ends with either a noun or pronoun. The
  preposition is underlined in green and the entire
  prepositional phrase is circled in green.

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Pronouns

• Pronouns Pronouns are noun replacements. They
  take the place of a noun so they are yellow just
  as nouns are yellow.
• There are many types of pronouns such as
  indefinite, personal, reflexive and intensive.

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Adverbs

• Adverbs Take the word adverb apart and you will
  find what it modifies. It can modify adjectives,
  verbs, or other adverbs.
• For our study the adjectives will usually modify
  the verb.
• Not and very are always adverbs.
• Many adverbs end in ly.
• Adverbs answer the questions How? When? Where?
  To what extent?
• Adverbs are color coded purple and have a purple
  arrow going from them to the word that they
  modify.

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Conjunctions

• Conjunctions- Conjunctions join word, phrases,
  and clauses together.
• The most common conjunctions are and, but, and
  or.
• These are color coded brown just like a wooden
  peg that holds things together.

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Interjections

• Interjections Interjections are words that show
  strong emotion.
• There is no relationship between them and the
  sentence that comes before or after them.
• Since they do not have an important function
  within a sentence, they are not color coded.