Language arts 8 a unit 2: turning points

1. which of these sentences features a possessive noun?

a. sentence 1 (everything i know about gardening i learned from my good friend sandy.)

b. sentence 5 (when she showed me her big, healthy, vegetable garden and offered me some gardening tips, i decided to listen hard.)

c. sentence 7 (then she taught me how to cultivate rich and healthy soil and me identify which types of plants are best for the environment in my yard.)

d. sentence 11 (my dream is that one day my garden will be just as beautiful and productive as sandy's! )

2. which of the following nouns from the selection is a proper noun?

a. garden

b. soil

c. sandy

d. environment

3. which principal part of the verb to dig appears in sentence 4? (a few weeks later, when i was digging up seeds that had not even sprouted yet, sandy came over to introduce herself with a basket of fresh produce from her garden.)

a. present

b. past

c. present participle

d past participle

Question 1

The correct answer is d.

The possessive nouns are nouns that we use to express that a person or an object belongs to someone or something. We usually make them by adding apostrophe ('s) on the noun itself:

boy's

mum's

Kate's

In this particular case, we can notice that the sentence d. My dream is that one day my garden will be just as beautiful and productive as Sandy's! has a possessive noun and it is Sandy's.

SANDY (noun) + 'S = SANDY'S (possesive noun)

The other examples show the use of the possessive PRONOUNS.

a. Everything I know about gardening I learned from my good friend Sandy.

b. When she showed me her big, healthy, vegetable garden and offered me some gardening tips, I decided to listen hard.

c. Then she taught me how to cultivate rich and healthy soil and helped me identify which types of plants are best for the environment in my yard.

Question 2

The correct answer is c.

Proper nouns express a unique person/object and become with capital letters. All the other are common nouns (garden, soil, environment).

Question 3

The correct answer is c.

The present participle is the form we get when we add 'ing' to the verb.

dig + ing = digging

...as it appears in the example: A few weeks later, when I was digging up seeds that had not even sprouted yet, Sandy came over to introduce herself with a basket of fresh produce from her garden.

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