8th Grade Vocabulary
These words mean about the same thing
What are synonyms?
Is this sentence written in active or passive voice:
Our family hosted a cookout last night to meet our new neighbors.
What is active?
What is the noun in this sentence:
When he went to buy a car, the salesman negotiated a price with him.
What is the salesman?
The sea lashed out in anger at the ships.
What is personification?
What is the complete predicate in this sentence:
The black cat slept all day.
What is slept all day?
These small word "parts" are added to the end of a word to change its meaning
What are suffixes?
What verb tense and aspect is this sentence written in:
The dog jumps over the fence.
What is present simple?
What are the adjectives in this sentence:
A lengthy silence followed, and she bitterly considered how well he had betrayed her.
What is lengthy?
I can run as fast as a cheetah.
What is a simile?
She wanted a peace of the pie.
What is piece?
A word used in place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
What verb tense and aspect is this sentence written in:
She was writing her paper on the solar system.
What is past progressive?
What are the pronouns in this sentence:
May I go with you?
Who is I and you?
I planted purple petunias in the park.
What is alliteration?
What is the correct spelling of the homophone in this sentence:
There bags were packed last week!
What is their?
These small word "parts" are added to the beginning of words to change its meaning
What are prefixes?
Is this sentence written in active or passive voice:
The babies were fed by volunteer workers.
What is the adverb in this sentence:
He played the piano carefully.
What is carefully?
The classroom is an ice box today!
What is a metaphor?
What is the correct spelling of the homophone(s) in this sentence:
We went too the market wear we bought fresh tomatoes.
What is to and where?
The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine the meaning
What are context clues?
What verb tense and aspect is this sentence written in:
He has eaten all of his food.
What is the gerund in this sentence:
Swimming in the ocean has been Sarah's passion since she was five years old.
What is Swimming?
I can smell pizza from a mile away!
What is hyperbole?
What type of sentences use a semicolon?
What is compound and compound complex?