Collegiate Parts of Speech
Words Heard on Campus
Grammar 101
Oxford University
Did you pay attention in class?
100
It's the verb you'd use to send a football from person to person at TCU.
What is verb?
100
You would see one of these when the OU vs UT game is over, and everyone is leaving.
What is a throng?
100
It's when you combine two sentences.
What is compound sentence?
100
It's what a lexicographer does.
What is write dictionaries?
100
It's where you'd find the word of the day.
What is Merriam-Webster.com?
200
It's the pronoun in the sentence, "Our mascot is a cougar."
What is our?
200
This is how you'd feel if you were unsure in your opinion of the MIT football team.
What is dubious?
200
It's the predicate of the sentence: Pepperdine is a great university.
What is 'is'?
200
The Elvish language was based on these two languages.
What is Finnish and Welsh?
200
It's 3 of the five things you must have in a personal narrative.
What are: intro, word choice, varied sentences, fig. language and reflection?
300
It's the adverb or adverbs in the sentence, "The Virginia Tech student studied very silently."
What are very and silently?
300
Baylor's quarterback could be called this since he's quick and light in motion.
What is nimble?
300
It's how many subjects and predicates a compound sentence will have at a minimum.
What is 2?
300
Tolkien was a philologist, so he studied these.
What are languages?
300
It's the number of countries that are represented by flags in this classroom.
What is three?
400
It's the type of conjunction in this sentence, "As we yelled for our team, they scored a goal."
What is subordinating?
400
In the event of a zombie attack, the twirlers at Harvard could do this with their batons.
What is wield?
400
It's the proper name for FANBOYS.
What is coordinating conjunctions?
400
This is the first part of the hero's journey.
What is a call to action?
400
It's the quote that is on my dragon poster.
What is "I shall give you a name, and I shall call you 'Sting.' "?
500
It's the part of speech to describe where Texas Tech is in relation to the University of Massachusetts.
What is preposition?
500
Rival teams, such as LSU and Arizona State will often give threatening looks to each other, otherwise known as this.
What is menacing?
500
It's the 4 sentence types we discussed last year.
What are simple, compound, complex, appositive?
500
Tolkien was born in this country.
What is South Africa?
500
It's the date for a fortnight.
What is September 30th, 2014?
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