Conjunctions
Commas
Context Clues
Parts of Speech
Figurative Language
100
The boys ________ girls worked hard on their test.
What is and?
100
Lisa, Frank, and Bob went to the store.
What is items in a series comma?
100
Tony won a million dollars, so he became ECSTATIC.
What is overjoyed/happy?
100
a person, place, thing, or idea
What is A NOUN?
100
She is like a rose in the sun.
What is A SIMILE?
200
Did you go to canobie lake ________ six flags yesterday?
What is or?
200
No, I will not go with you!
What is an answer or yes no well maybe comma?
200
The RESPLENDENT girl had many offers from boys to go on dates with them.
What is beautiful?
200
planted
What is a verb?
200
The wind sang its beautiful tune.
What is personification?
300
In a cause-effect relationship this conjunction introduces the cause.
What is so?
300
sets off a renamed subject
What is an appositive?
300
The prodigious creature, massive in size, walked heavily over to its tiny prey.
What is large or giant?
300
three, determined, lovely, yellow
What is an ADJECTIVE?
300
The tall man is a mountain that towers over all.
What is a metaphor?
400
It's function is to provide negative agreement between ideas. NO!!!
What is Nor?
400
Wilma, are you coming to school today?
What is a direct address comma?
400
Lisa was not interested in boys who were of medium or DIMINUTIVE size, which is why she dated Julio who was 6 foot, 7 inches tall.
What is tiny or small?
400
a possessive pronoun meaning "belonging to a boy"
What is HIS?
400
Her feet seemed to extend beyond the street's end. Boy, those are some big feet!
What is hyperbole?
500
I could not find my shoes, _________ I was extremely groggy and tired.
What is for?
500
Because he walked to school everyday, Joey knew exactly how long it would take to get there.
What is a phrase intro. comma?
500
Joey's story became so CONVOLUTED while he was explaining to the principal why he wasn't in class, the principal became suspicious.
What is difficult to follow or understand?
500
This part of speech answers the questions how, when, and where.
What is an ADVERB?
500
An expression such as "when pigs fly".
What is an idiom?
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