Nouns
Verbs
Verb Tenses
Good Writers
Spelling
100
The subject in the following sentence: "The cat walked over to his bed."
What is cat
100
Name the verb in the following sentence: "The cat walked over to his bed."
What is walked
100
What are the three verb tenses?
What is past, present, and future
100
Good writers use these to look up the definitions of words.
What are dictionaries
100
Spell "do not" as a contraction.
What is "don't"
200
A subject answers this question
What is "who or what is this sentence about"?
200
Some verbs show action. Others are called ______ verbs.
What is being
200
Is the following verb past, present, or future: "Maria went rock climbing for three hours."
What is past
200
True or false: Good writers capitalize every word in a sentence.
What is false
200
"O-R" makes this sound.
What is or
300
The three kinds of nouns
What are a person, place, or thing
300
Name the five being verbs.
What are: am, is, are, was, were
300
What do you add to "join" to make it a past tense verb?
What is -ed
300
Good writers use these to find synonyms and antonyms for words.
What are thesauruses
300
Spell a homophone for "hole"
What is "w-h-o-l-e"
400
The two categories of nouns
What are common and proper
400
Name the verb in the following sentence: "I am the shortest person in my family."
What is am
400
What is the past tense of "run"?
What is ran
400
True or false: good writers should end every sentence with a period.
What is false
400
Spell one of your list words for this week.
What is (answers vary)
500
We always capitalize this kind of noun.
What is proper
500
Name the verb in the following sentence: "He thought about going home, but decided not to."
What is thought
500
Which happens first- a present tense verb or a future tense verb?
What is present-tense verb
500
Good writers know that a this punctuation mark should always come before a beginning quotation mark.
What is a comma
500
Spell "could not" as a contraction.
What is "couldn't"
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