Parts of Speech
Fragment, Complete or Run-On Sentence?
Author's Purpose
Words, words, words
Punctuation
100
The part of speech that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
100
This type of sentence: Played outside for several hours.
What is a fragment?
100
Writing that is trying to convince someone
What is persuasive writing?
100
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
This type of sentence: Do you like gym it is my favorite special.
What is a run-on sentence?
200
The author's purpose: Help Wanted Ad
What is to persuade?
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
This type of sentence: The bright star in the sky.
What is a fragment?
300
Writing that gives information and facts
What is informational writing?
300
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings... Ex) blue and blew
What are homophones?
300
This is what should be done to book titles when writing them.
What is capitalize and 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
This type of sentence: The school had a fire drill during fire safety week.
What is a complete sentence?
400
The author's purpose: a restaurant menu
What is to inform?
400
This set of words (beautiful, gorgeous) is known as these.
What are synonyms?
400
This is the type of punctuation mark that would be found at the end of a declarative and sometimes imperative 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
This type of sentence: I ate four pieces of pizza I was starving!
What is a run-on sentence?
500
The author's purpose: A birthday card
What is to entertain?
500
The number of syllables in the word 'personality'.
What is 5?
500
This type of punctuation mark shows ownership. Ex) It was Marcy's turn to kick the ball.
What is an apostrophe?
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