Ad/Verbs and Interjections
Pro/Nouns and Adjectives
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Vocab
100
This is a word that expresses strong feelings or statements.
What is an interjection?
100
A word used to modify or describe a noun or pronoun. Usually answering which one? What kind of? How many?
What is an adjective?
100
A word or phrase that joins other words or parts of a sentence together.
What is a conjunction?
100
A word that show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
100
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, usually based on ethnic or religious background. This term did not exist before the end of WWII.
What is genocide?
200
This is a word that expresses action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
200
A word that refers to an antecedent, and supplants another part of speech.
What is a pronoun?
200
This connects grammatically equal elements, and it is used (in this sentence) to create compound sentences.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
200
A phrase or clause which begins with a preposition and ends with a noun. Usually to "fill out" a sentence.
What is a prepositional phrase?
200
A barrier erected to delay the movement of enemy forces.
What is a barricade?
300
A word that tells us more about a verb or an adjective. Commonly, this answers how, where, when, and is used as an adjective.
What is an adverb?
300
Concrete or abstract it doesn't matter; they surround you.
What is a noun?
300
This introduces a dependent clause, which cannot stand on its own. These are necessary to create complex sentences.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
300
Identify the preposition in the following sentence: The car started with a bang.
What is with?
300
Not active; without purpose.
What is idle?
400
am, is, are, was, were.
What are (be) verbs?
400
The word a pronoun refers to.
What is an antecedent?
400
Identify the subordinate conjunction: Although she liked the movie, Mary walked out of the theatre when she spilled her soda.
What is although?
400
Identify the preposition in the following sentence: Mary will arrive after the movie starts.
What is after.
400
A short general truth.
What is a proverb?
500
"Help!"
What is an interjection?
500
Name the type of nouns: Rocky Mountains, Green Bay Packers, United States.
What are collective nouns?
500
Identify the coordinating conjunction: Jake loved soda, but not when Mary spilled it on him.
What is but?
500
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: The car is outside the garage.
What is "outside the garage"?
500
The quality of being beautiful.
What is magnificence?
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