Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Verbs
Hyphens and Dashes
100
This type of noun must be capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
100
This type of pronoun introduces questions.
What is an interrogative pronoun?
100
This type of adjective must be capitalized.
What is a proper adjective?
100
These are the helping verbs in the following sentence: I will be teaching ninth grade at some point in the near future.
What are will and be?
100
This type of punctuation is used if there is an abrupt break in thought.
What is a dash?
200
In the following sentence, happiness, religion, and love are all examples of this type of noun: Happiness, religion, and love are common core values.
What is an abstract noun?
200
1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person are all categories of this type of pronoun.
What is a personal pronoun?
200
In the following sentence, these adjectives modify the word banana: The yellow banana tasted ripe as the famished student chewed it.
What are yellow and ripe?
200
At least one helping verb plus a main verb makes one of these.
What is a verb phrase?
200
When using a hyphen to split a word at the end of a line, a hyphen should only be placed here.
What is between syllables?
300
This is an example of a proper noun in the following sentence: History tells us that George Washington was British.
What is George Washington?
300
In the following sentence, myself is an example of this type of pronoun: I don't feel quite like myself.
What is a reflexive pronoun?
300
These three words are articles.
What are a, an, and the?
300
These are all of the forms of the verb be.
What are am, is, are, be, was, were, been, and being?
300
A hyphen should be added at these places in the following sentence: At twenty two she became an all star athlete.
What are twenty-two and all-star?
400
This word in the following sentence is a compound noun: The Canadian tourists were disappointed in the cleanliness of their hotel room.
What is hotel room?
400
In the following sentence who is this type of pronoun: The cyclist who won the race trained hard.
What is a relative pronoun?
400
This, that, these, and those are frequently used as this type of adjective.
What is a demonstrative adjective?
400
In the following sentence, the verb was is acting like this type of verb: The game was at 4 pm.
What is a state-of-being verb?
400
A dash should be placed between these two words in the following sentence for emphasis: His ex-girlfriend is a real jerk, and he was happy when she left finally.
What are left and finally?
500
The answer to this question is all of the nouns in the following sentence: My sister always takes my nephew to Weaver's Orchard to pick apples to make homemade apple sauce.
What are sister, nephew, Weaver's Orchard, apples, and apple sauce?
500
This is the only demonstrative pronoun in the following sentence: These apples are better than those apples which is why this is better than that pie.
What is this?
500
These are all of the adjectives in the following sentence. She paid thirty thousand dollars for this brand new car that is blue and sparkly.
What are this, thirty thousand, (brand) new, blue, and sparkly.
500
This is the verb or verb phrase in the following sentence. Will you be festively decorating your house for Christmas this year?
What is will be decorating?
500
Hyphens should be used when words begin with these prefixes. There are four.
What are all, self, ex, and great?
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