Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
Sentences
RULES
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Quin is like a tiger on the basketball court.
What is a simile?
100
The boys lost to the girls in tug of war and CHECKERS.
What is a noun?
100
Simple, Compound, or Complex? Tony caught a 5 pound catfish during spring break.
What is a simple sentence?
100
What punctuation goes at the end of this sentence? Which book will Alley need to finish her homework
What is a question mark?
100
To, two or too? Mrs. Widener wants ____ go see the Hunger Games.
What is to?
200
Megan is a bear in the morning.
What is a metaphor?
200
Tessa's blue SILKY sweater has to be washed by hand.
What is an adjective?
200
Simple, Compound, or Complex? Megan ordered a cheeseburger, but Jaqueline waited until she got home to eat.
What is compound? A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction. The coordinating conjunctions are as follows: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. (Helpful hint: The first letter of each of the coordinators spells FANBOYS.) Except for very short sentences, coordinators are always preceded by a comma.
200
Their, there or they're? Griffin and Samantha worked on ______ math homework.
What is their?
200
Fact or opinion? The best part of afterschool is finishing homework with a teacher's help.
What is opinion?
300
Ms. Neal is older than dirt.
What is hyperbole?
300
Tyler dribbled the ball QUICKLY down the court.
What is an adverb?
300
simple, compound, or complex?
What is A complex sentence has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which.
300
Identify the direct object in the following sentence. Samantha T sliced the pie into six pieces.
What is pie? A direct object is the receiver of action within a sentence, as in "He hit the ball."
300
Spell the contraction formed by combining we and are.
What is we're?
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Andi's teddy bear gave her a hug.
What is personification?
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Mrs. Barmore gave EVERYONE a chance to talk during activity.
What is a pronoun?
400
What is the simple predicate? Jordan read a great book about Shaquille O'Neal.
What is read?
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What is the indirect object? Brandon gave Caitlin all his money.
What is Caitlin? The indirect object identifies to or for whom or what the action of the verb is performed. The direct object and indirect object are different people or places or things.
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Which sentence contains a plural possessive noun? A. The boys' pencils were sharper than mine. B. My niece's favorite color is turquoise. C. The dog's legs were stuck in the mud.
What is A?
500
Mrs. Charles's back went snap, crackle, pop when she tried to out-limbo Austin.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Tessa WAS the goalie for relay soccer last week.
What is a verb?
500
What is the simple subject? Dustin forgot his science vocabulary on table beside his cereal.
What is Dustin?
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Which is punctuated correctly? A. Rene asked, for the last juice box and donut. B. Rene asked, "May I have the last snack?" C. Rene asked "for the last snack" Tuesday.
What is B?
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What does the prefix semi mean? ex. semicircle, semiarid, semiweekly
What is part or half?
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