Parts of Speech
All About Sentences
Writing
Words, words, words
Punctuation
100

The part of speech that ends with -ly and describes a verb.

What is an adverb?

100

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The type of sentence shown below: "Get out your books."

What is an imperative sentence?

100

What should you do when you see a word written in bold or italics in a story?

What is read it with extra emotion or emphasis?

100


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This set of words (large, small) is known as these.

What are antonyms?

100
This is the type of punctuation that separates a city from a state.
What is a comma?
200
The part of speech that is missing in the following sentence: The brave girl ________________ quickly down the stairs.
What is the verb?
200
The compound subject in the following sentence: The gray rabbit and the yellow duck swam together in the pond.
What is the rabbit and duck?
200
Writing that tells a story
What is narrative?
200

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This is the word for when someone is speaking, such as in a play.

What is dialogue?

200

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The type of punctuation that would be found at the end of an interrogative sentence.

What is a question mark?

300
The adjective in the following sentence: I ate a greasy piece of pizza for lunch.
What is greasy?
300
The best way to combine the two sentences below: Jane likes to ride bicycles. Jane likes to swim.
What is 'Jane likes to ride bicycles and swim'. (Since the sentences begin the same, just use the subject once.)
300
Writing that informs
What is informational writing?
300

Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings

Homophones?

300

This is the type of punctuation that signals dialogue.

What are quotation marks?

400
The pronoun that replaces 'desk' in the following sentence: The desk was so full of books that it fell over.
What is 'it'?
400

A sentence that is two simple sentences combined together with a comma and a conjuction.

What is a compound sentence?

400

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What do you call the events that occur in a story?

What is the plot?
400

The words in ( ) in the following passage are these: The (cute) girl wore her (adorable) dress on Easter.

What are synonyms?

400
This is the type of punctuation mark that would be found at the end of an imperative or declarative sentence
What is a period?
500
The word used incorrectly in the following sentence: The girl ran swift down the hall.
What is swift? (It should be swiftly...it's an adverb)
500

The subject and predicate in the following sentence: Because it was raining, I wore my polka-dot rainboots.

'I, wore'? (I is the subject and wore is the predicate. 'Because it was raining' is a clause added to the beginning of the sentence...it does not contain the subject or predicate)

500

The type of writing that has a plot, conflict, and resolution

What is narrative writing?

500
The number of syllables in the word 'jeopardy'.
What is 3?
500

What punctuation is missing in the following sentence, and where should it go?

"I think I did really well on the test today" said the student.

What is a comma after the word today?

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