Tricky Parts of Speech
Itch: He had an itch under his eyelid.
Noun.
This terminal punctuation ends a simple sentence.
Period
This horned ungulate can often be found in town - especially during hunting season.
Deer
The largest (landlocked) lake in Ferry County.
Curlew Lake
It: It ran away.
Pronoun
This terminal punctuation ends a interrogative sentence.
Question mark
This "whale" is a symbol of Puget Sound, a historic breeding area.
Orca
Mt. Gibraltar
Armistice: The armistice stopped the war.
Noun
This piece of punctuation is used in a list, though in England, they drop the last one before the "and."
Comma
Moose
The mountain range is visible looking west from Seattle on a sunny day, in the Olympic Peninsula
The Olympics
This punctuation introduces a list.
Colon
Salmon
These mountains are shared by Washington, Oregon, and Idaho...the location of Ernest Hemingway's death.
The Blue Mountains.
Does: Does he know where to go?
Verb
These three dots (periods) show when information has been omitted, particularly from a quote.
Ellipsis.
An endangered species, in which there is less than 20 in existence in northeastern Washington.
Woodland Caribou.