Noun
Name the person, place, thing, or idea in this sentence: "The cat slept on the windowsill."
What is the cat?
What is the action verb in: "He kicked the ball"?
What is the word kicked?
Find the adjective that describes a noun: "The red bike is mine."
What is the word red?
Pick the coordinating conjunction in: "I wanted cake, but I ate pie."
what is the word but?
What is the interjection in: "Wow! That skateboard trick was amazing."
What is the woord wow?
Identify the preposition in: "The book is under the table."
What is the word under?
Replace the noun with the correct pronoun: "Maria found Maria's book." (use a possessive pronoun)
What is the word her?
Identify the adverb in: "He ran quickly."
What is the word quickly?
Identify the common noun in this sentence: "Students waited for the bus."
What is the word students?
Identify the linking verb in: "The soup smells good."
What is the word smells?
Which word is an adjective in: "She wore a silk dress"?
What is the word silk?
Name the conjunction that shows cause in: "She studied hard, so she passed the test."
What is the word so?
Give an interjection that expresses surprise.
What is a word like, "Oh!", "Hey!", "Whoa!"
Which preposition shows movement in: "She walked into the room"?
What is the word into?
Identify the subject pronoun in: "They are ready for the quiz."
What is the word they?
Which adverb answers the question "when" in: "We will leave tomorrow"?
What is the word tomorrow?
Choose the proper noun from: city, Paris, school, river.
What is the word Paris?
Change the verb in this sentence to past tense: "She writes a poem."
What is the sentence "She wrote a poem"?
Name two adjectives that describe this noun: "forest
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Identify the conjunction in: "Although it rained, the game continued."
What is the word although?
Explain why interjections are usually set off by commas or exclamation points.
Because they express emotion and are often separated from the sentence with punctuation for tone.
Choose the correct preposition to complete: "We sat ___ the front row." (in / on / at)
What is the word in?
Choose the correct pronoun to complete: "Between you and ___, I think the plan will work." (I / me)
What is the word me?
Find the adverb that modifies an adjective in: "The extremely bright light hurt my eyes."
What is the word extremely?
Give an example of an abstract noun that could complete the sentence: "Her _______ helped her finish the project."
What is an example that is an abstract noun.
What is the complete predicate in the sentence: "The dog barked loudly."
What are the words, barked loudly?
In the sentence, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away". There are the three words that are technically classified as adjectives.
What are the words: an, a, and the.
Combine these two sentences using an appropriate conjunction: "Jon likes music. He does not like loud music."
what is a sentence like: Jon likes music but he does not like loud music?
Provide an interjection to start a sentence that shows hesitation, then use it in a full sentence.
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example: "Um, I think we should wait."
Explain the object of the preposition and find it in: "After the movie, we went home."
The object of the preposition is "movie".
In the sentence, 'She gave the book to him,' the word She is a Subject pronoun, while the word him is this type of pronoun.
What is an Object Pronoun?
In the phrase 'the extremely bright sun,' the word 'extremely' is an adverb because it is modifying this other part of speech.
What is an adjective?
Identify and label the compound noun in this sentence: "The toothpaste tube exploded in the bathroom sink."
What is the words toothpaste tube.
Identify the auxiliary (helping) verb and the main verb in: "They have been studying all night."
What is the auxiliaries: have been and the main verb: studying?
Rewrite this sentence adding an adjective to make it more specific: "The bird flew away."
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In a sentence diagram, a conjunction is typically written on this type of line to connect two parts of a compound subject or predicate.
What is a dotted (or dashed) line?
Identify the interjection and describe its tone in: "Alas, the cake burned before the party."
What is the word "Alas" expresses sadness or regret; tone = regretful/sad.
Rewrite the sentence to change the prepositional phrase without changing the meaning: "The cat slept on the warm blanket."
An example: "The cat slept atop the warm blanket."
Correct the pronoun-antecedent agreement in this sentence: "Each of the players must bring their uniform.
correction: "Each of the players must bring his or her uniform." (or "their" accepted in modern usage — discuss with class).
Explain whether the underlined word is acting as an adverb or adjective: "She painted the wall bright red."
What is an adjective?
"bright" acts as an adjective modifying "red" (so not an adverb).