Parts of Speech
All About Sentences
Writing Genres
Words, words, words
Punctuation
100
The part of speech that ends with -ly and describes how.
What is an adverb?
100
The type of sentence shown below:
Get out your World of Language textbooks.
What is an imperative sentence?
100
Writing that is trying to convince someone of a point of view.
What is persuasive writing?
100
This set of words (create, destroy) 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
Describe this type of sentence:
The gray rabbit and the yellow duck swam together in the pond.
Simple sentence with a compound subject
200
Writing that tells a story to entertain
What is narrative?
200
The resource book that contains synonyms and antonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
200
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
What type of sentence you will have when you combine the two sentences below:
Jane likes to ride bicycles. Jane likes to swim.
What is a simple sentence with a compound verb?
300
Transition words are critical to good writing. Name any five transition words.
300
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings
What are homonyms/homophones?
300
This is what should be done to book titles.
What is underline them? (Italics if it is typed)
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 formed when two simple sentences are combined together with a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
400
The type of writing that would use facts, text features, and chronological order.
What is informational or expository writing?
400
The words in ( ) in the following passage are this: 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 rain boots.
What is '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 'onomatopoeia'.
What is 6?
500
Explain when to use underlining/italics or quotation marks with titles.
What is underline/italicize titles of full works such as books, movies/tv shows, plays, albums, magazines, newspapers, etc.
and put smaller works that belong to a larger whole in quotation marks? For example, chapters, poems, articles, songs, episodes of a television show, etc.