Grammar Review- 3rd Grade, Unit 3, Lesson 12

Common

Nouns

Names of people, places, and things (general,

not specific)

Proper
Nouns

Names of people, places, and things

(specific, not general)

Names of people, places,

and things that can be

detected using a person’s

five senses

CONCRETE NOUNS

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Names of Emotions/feelings

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States/attributes

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ideas/concepts

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movements/events that can’t be detected by a
person’s five senses

ABSTRACT NOUNS

Action Verbs

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Verbs that show action

Linking Verbs

Linking words that join the predicate to

the subject it describes.

Adjectives

Words that describe
nouns, often telling
how many, color,
shape, size, etc.

Subject

The part of the sentence that tells
the ‘who’ or ‘what’ the sentence is
about

Predicates

The part of the sentence that

tells the action, the “what is

happening. The predicate
often begins with the verb.

Fragment

A group of words that isn’t a
complete thought and lacks
either a subject or predicate

A group of words

that has one subject

and one predicate

Simple Sentence

Two or more simple sentences that run together
because they are capitalized or punctuated
incorrectly.

Run-on Sentences

Paragraphs

One sentence, usually the first,
that tells the main idea, or what
the paragraph is mostly about.

One sentence, always the last,
that wraps up the paragraph; it

does not restate new

information; it often restates the

topic sentence

Topic Sentence

Concluding Sentence

Irrelevant Sentences

Doesn’t relate to the topic sentence, and
should not be included in the paragraph