Mr. Haas's Language Arts

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Please add the rubric to the end of your informative essay. Copy and paste.

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#1 - Lights off

Joe and Sally were sitting in their family room one night. While Joe was watching TV, his wife Sally was reading. All of a sudden the power went out and Joe decided to go to bed, but Sally kept on reading. With no use of artificial light, Sally kept on reading. How?

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Linking/Helping Verbs

is be been being
am are
was were
has have had
do does did
may might
can could
will would
shall should
must

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PARTS OF SPEECH

A noun names a person, animal, place, thing, quality, idea, activity, or feeling. A noun can be singular, plural, or show possession.
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun, like: “I”, “you”, or “they.”

A verb shows action and can be a main verb or a helping verb, like: “were” or “has.” Verbs also indicate tense and sometimes change their form to show past, present, or future tense. Linking verbs link the subject to the rest of the sentence and examples are: “appear” and “seem.”

An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun. It adds meaning by telling how much, which one, what kind, or describing it in other ways.
An adverb will modify a verb and tell more about it, like how much, when, where, why, or how.
A preposition shows a relationship between nouns or pronouns. It is often used with a noun to show location, like: “beside”, “in”, or “on”. It can also show time, direction, motion, manner, reason, or possession.
Conjunctions connect two words, phrases, or clauses, and common ones are: “and”, “but”, and “or.”

Here are two other types of words that are considered by some, but not all, to be parts of speech.

One of them is the interjection. It shows emotion and examples are: “yea”, “hurray”, “uh-oh”, and “alas.”
Articles are very useful little words that are also sometimes considered to be parts of speech. The articles are: “a”, “an”, and “the”. Indefinite articles are “a” and “an” and “the” is a definite article.

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#1 - Lights Out

Sally is blind and the book is written in Braille.

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