Punctuation
Capitalization
"Tricky Words"
Mechanics
Vocabulary Development
100
What does a INTERROGATIVE sentence need at the end?
What is a question mark?
100
All proper nouns are capitalized. What is a proper noun?
What is a specific person, place, thing, group, or event?
100
Which form of (there, they're, their) shows possession of something?
What is their?
100
What is the action word in a sentence?
What is a verb?
100
What is the root word of disagree?
What is agree?
200
Which sentence has the correct punctuation? (A): "Barry said, I love to read." (B): Barry said "I love to read". (C): Barry said, "I love to read."
What is C.
200
Which sentence has the correct capitalization? (A): Cara goes to school at west chester university. (B): cara goes to school at West Chester University. (C): Cara goes to school at West Chester University.
What is C?
200
Which form of (there, they're, their) is a contraction for "they are"?
What is they're?
200
What is the past tense of run?
What is ran?
200
The suffix -less, as in sleepless, means...?
What is without something?
300
Which sentence uses colons correctly? (A): Sarah needs: pizza, chicken nuggets, and lemonade. (B): Sarah needs pizza: chicken nuggets: and lemonade. (C): Sarah: needs pizza, chicken nuggets, and lemonade.
What is A.
300
Which sentence is correct? (A): There was a Siberian tiger at the zoo. (B): There was a siberian tiger at the zoo. (C): There was a Siberian Tiger at the zoo.
What is A?
300
Which form of (to, too, two) means 'in excess' or 'also'?
What is too?
300
What is the part of speech that is used to describe a noun?
What is an adjective?
300
The prefixes and suffixes de-, dis-, non-, -able, and -ify are from what origin? HINT: Greek, Latin, French, Spanish
What is Latin?
400
What is the contraction for "you have"?
What is you've?
400
The first word in a quotation needs to be what?
What is capitalized?
400
What are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings called?
What are homophones?
400
What is the ADVERB in the sentence, "The beautiful horse trotted gracefully across the meadow."
What is gracefully?
400
Words that mean the same thing are called what?
What is a synonym?
500
Titles of a book, poem, play, tv series, magazine or movie should be what?
What is underlined?
500
Which title has the correct capitalization? (A): The Little House On The Prairie (B): The Little House on the Prairie (C): The Little House on The Prairie
What is B?
500
Which sentence uses the correct homophone? (A): The recipe calls for three cups of flower. (B): The recipe calls for three cups of flour.
What is B?
500
A word showing a relationship between nouns or pronouns and can show the relations of direction, time, and location are called what? EX: about, above, before, below, down, inside, over, past.
What is a preposition?
500
What is an alphabetical list of terms with the definition found at the end of a book?
What is the glossary?
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