Parts of Speech
It names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
A group of related words that functions in a sentence as a single part of speech.
What is a phrase?
What helping verb does the past perfect verb tense always include?
What is "had"?
A comparison of two unlike things that contains the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
In "The Book of the Dead," what country are Annie's parents originally from?
What is Haiti?
This teacher is named after a bird.
Who is Mrs. Tumbledown?
What is a verb?
Is the underlined phrase below a noun phrase or verb phrase?
My family had a small garden when I was a child.
What is a noun phrase?
"Tense" refers to the __ in which an action occurs.
What is time?
Attributing human qualities to a non-human object.
What is personification?
In what country is "What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" set?
What is Israel?
This teacher could fingerprint you in class.
Who is Mr. Dale?
What is the ONLY part of speech in the following list NOT modified (described) by adverbs?
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
What are nouns?
Identify the noun phrase:
A ruby-throated hummingbird hovered above the birdbath.
What is "a ruby-throated hummingbird"?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
Is Sergei Goralick from the Russian Jewish community or the Arab Israeli community?
What is the Russian Jewish community.
These two teachers are married to one another.
Who are Ms. Swenor and Mr. Moye?
Identify the three prepositions in this line from a classic holiday song:
Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go.
What are "over," "through," and "to"?
Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence:
I hurried into my classroom.
What is "into my classroom"?
What will Ms. Cardillo not enter this building in the morning without?
A cup of coffee.
The acronym FANBOYS refers to this part of speech.
What are conjunctions?
Explain how you would change the verb tense from past perfect to past in the sentence below.
I had wanted to become a doctor.
What is remove the word "had"?
Identify the oxymoron in this sentence:
The end of the summer always feels bittersweet.
What is "bittersweet"?
When Ms. Sullivan is trying to get your attention, she most often threatens to __.
What is dance?
Identify the interjection:
Ugh, that homework assignment took all night.
What is "ugh"?
The number of verb tenses in English
What are twelve?
The last name of "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc," the father and son who ruled Haiti for almost 30 years.
What is "Duvalier"?
Before Mr. Nadeau was the principal at Academy, what subject did he teach here?
What is History?