Parts of Speech
Person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
Fix this sentence: “i like pizza”
What is “I like pizza”?
This is an incomplete sentence: “Running through the park.”
What is a fragment?
What a text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
A word that describes a verb, often ending in -ly.
What is an adverb?
Fix this sentence: “she run to school”
What is “She runs to school”?
What is “She runs to school”?
This type of sentence joins two complete thoughts incorrectly: “I went home I ate dinner.”
What is a run-on sentence?
The main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
A comparison without using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
Fix this sentence: “he don’t want to go”
What is “He doesn’t want to go”?
A complete sentence must have these two parts.
What are a subject and a predicate?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
Giving human qualities to non-human things
What is personification?
A word that replaces a noun, like he, she, or they.
What is a pronoun?
Fix this sentence: “me and him went to the store”
What is “He and I went to the store”?
What is “He and I or We went to the store”?
“I went home, and I ate dinner” is this type of sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
The conflict in a story.
What is the problem?
“As fast as lightning” is this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
In the sentence “The dog barked loudly,” this word shows action.
What is “barked”?
Fix this sentence: “she eat lunch and she go outside”
What is “She ate lunch, and she went outside”?
Fix this run-on: “She likes music she listens every day.”
What is “She likes music, and she listens every day”?
Using clues to figure something out.
What is making an inference?
The phrase “raining cats and dogs” means this
What is raining very hard?