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These words describe nouns & pronouns.
Example: She drives a green car.
What is an adjective?
This verb is the past tense of 'stand.'
What is stood?
This type of sentence contains only one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
This punctuation mark ends most declarative sentences.
What is a period?
This type is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.
In the sentence, 'She ran very quickly to class,' very and quickly both modify the verb 'ran.'
What is/are adverbs?
This is the past participle of 'write.'
What is written?
'Because it was raining, we stayed inside,' is this kind of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
This punctuation mark begins a list or an example or in written numerical time (3:30).
What is a colon?
This is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.
What is mystery?
These parts of speech connect words, phrases, or clauses.
Example: and, but, however, for, also, etc.
What are conjunctions?
This is the verb tense used in this sentence: I have eaten breakfast already.
What is present perfect tense?
This is how to fix the run-on sentence, 'I love reading I don't like math.'
What is 'I love reading, but I don't like math.'
or
'I love reading. I don't like math.'
What is an apostrophe?
This is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
What is poetry?
This is the repetition of or occurrence of the same beginning letter or sound in a sentence.
Example: The dirty dung beetle dove into the dishwasher.
What is alliteration?
This is the correct form of the verb in the sentence, 'Neither of the boys ___ going to the game.'
What is 'is'?
This type of sentence asks a question.
What is interrogative?
This punctuation mark ends interrogative sentences.
What is a question mark?
This is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.
What is non-fiction?
Examples: over, under, between, with, beside, etc.
What is a preposition?
This is the future perfect tense of the sentence, 'She finishes her homework.'
What is, 'She will have finished her homework?
This type of sentence gives a command.
This punctuation goes between two independent clauses joined without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
This is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized to tell a morality tale.
What is a fable?