Parts of Speech
Find the noun in “Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically.
What is 'dress"?
List two words with a prefix, suffix, and base word in "Eva found the information unimaginable."
What are "information" and "unimaginable"?
Divide "spider" into syllables.
What is spi-der?
This portion of the following dictionary entry helps with proper pronunciation:
[ˈjenəsəs]
NOUN
the origin or mode of formation of something:
"this tale had its genesis in fireside stories"
What is [ˈjenəsəs]?
Philanthropy, philosopy, and philharmonic all come from this Greek root.
What is "phil", the term for love.
List the pronoun in “Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically.
What is "I"?
This is the suffix in the word "happiness."
What is -ness?
Divide "anywhere" into syllables.
This is the part of speech for "genesis"
[ˈjenəsəs]
NOUN
the origin or mode of formation of something:
"this tale had its genesis in fireside stories"
What is NOUN?
Claustrophobia means fear of cramped places. Hydrophobia is fear of water. Xenophobia is fear of people from other countries. Pbob is Greek for this.
What is "fear"?
Find the adjective in "Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically.
What is "beautiful"?
In the word "happily", this is the suffix.
What is -ly?
Divide "Mississippi" into syllables.
What is mis-sis-sip-pi?
The definition of "cap" in the sentence, "we had to cap our spending on luxuries" is:
[kap]
NOUN
a kind of soft, flat hat, typically with a visor:
a protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens:
an upper limit imposed on spending or other activities:
What is number 3, or "an upper limit imposed on spending or other activities"?
Given symphony, homophone, phonetic, and symposium, one does not belong.
What is "symposium"?
Find the adverb in “Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically.
What is "enthusiastically?"
Identify and interpret the prefix in "misbehave."
What are "mis-" and "not behave"?
Divide "Maine" into syllables.
What is Maine?
Biology, Histology, and Cytology all contain this Latin suffix which mean "study of".
What is -ology?
One of the following terms is not part of the Latin word family for paper:
1. notification
2. annotate
3. notorious
4. connotation
5. commotion
What is commotion?
Find the interjection in “Wow! What a beautiful dress!” I exclaimed enthusiastically.
What is "Wow!"
List two words with a prefix, suffix, and base word from "Eva was under the mistaken impression that education was a right available to everyone in the world."
What are "mistaken" and "impression"
List the number of syllables in "congeniality"?
What is six?
This part of the dictionary entry divides the word into syllables.
in·i·tial
[iˈniSH(ə)l
ADJECTIVE
existing or occurring at the beginning.
NOUN
the first letter of a name or word, typically a person's name or a word forming part of a phrase.
VERB
mark or sign (a document) with one's initials in order to authorize or validate it.
What is in-i-tial?
One of the following is not part of the word family:
ingest
eject
interject
project
What is"ingest"? Ject is Latin for to throw.