PARTS OF SPEECH
A word that comes before a noun. The words a, an, and the.
What is an article?
A type of sentence that tells something.
What is a statement?
Also known as declarative sentence.
Writing that is not based on fact.
What is fiction?
A noun that names more than one person, place, or thing.
What is a plural noun?
The order in which different steps or events happen.
What is sequence?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
A type of sentence that asks something.
What is a question?
Also known as interrogative sentence.
Writing that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
A noun that names any person, place, or thing.
What is a common noun?
The exact meaning of a word.
What is literal meaning?
A word that describes a verb (how, when, where).
What is an adverb?
A type of sentence that tells someone to do something.
What is a command?
Also, known as an imperative sentence.
Text that gives facts about a topic..
What is informational text?
A noun that names a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
A serious or polite way of speaking or writing.
What is formal language?
A word that shows action or forms of being.
What is a verb?
A type of sentence that shows strong emotion or feeling.
What is an exclamation?
Also known as an exclamatory sentence.
A story written to be acted out or performed for an audience.
What is a drama or play?
A noun that represents an idea, feeling, or quality that a person cannot see, hear, taste, smell, or touch.
What is an abstract noun?
The reason the author has for writing.
What is the author's purpose?
Three purposes are to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
A word that joins two words or ideas. Hint: FANBOYS
What is a conjunction?
A sentence that is made up of two simple sentences and joined by a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
A story with characters and events like those in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
A noun that shows ownership.
What is a possessive noun?
To make a good guess about something that is not directly written in the text.
What is making an inference?
Also called "conclusion" in some tests.