Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Sixteen, Lesson Five: Unit Review

  1. bribe
  2. tribe
  3. give
  4. strive
  5. alive
  6. electric
  7. charge
  8. volts
  9. generate
  10. alternative
  1. poles
  2. rural
  3. dwell
  4. village
  5. town
  6. council
  7. local
  8. municipal
  9. distance
  10. services
Unit Review

This unit contains several words with the -ibe and -ive letter patterns: 


	bribe			tribe			give

	strive			alive			alternative
Another letter pattern which shows up a lot in this list is the -al letter pattern: 

	alive			alternative		rural

	local			municipal

Nouns and Verbs

A noun is a word which names a person, place, or thing. A verb is word which names an action which can be performed by a noun. Often a word can be used as either a verb or a noun. To know which way it is being used, you must look at the context in which it appears: 


	Jill served the juice to the small children.

	Jill will juice the oranges.
The word juice appears in both sentences. In the first sentence it is used as a noun. In the second sentence it is used as a verb.

There can be many nouns and many verbs in a single sentence. Consider the following sentence: 


  Jill ran to the stream, jumped in the water, and crossed to the other side.
Here are the nouns and verbs used in that sentence: 

	NOUNS: Jill, stream, water, side

	VERBS: ran, jumped, crossed

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