Punctuation
Punctuation used to connect two or more words to show a combined meaning or create a compound adjective.
What is a hyphen?
Group of words that are an incomplete thought or not a complete sentence.
What are fragments?
Identify the tense of the sentence: "The couple was walking down the path."
What is past progressive?
Words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds they make.
What is onomatopoeia?
Identify the tense: I overcame my fear of flying and went to the Caribbean.
What is past tense?
A pair of punctuation marks used to show the beginning and end of phrases being spoken or to identify a title.
What are quotation marks?
Reflexive pronouns include these words: ourselves, myself, yourself, himself, themselves, and this one.
What is itself?
Identify the tense of the sentence: "We will be running down the trail if that bear moves any closer."
What is future progressive?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words, like "Cool Carter couldn't count."
What is alliteration?
Identify the tense used in this sentence: She had returned the books to the library.
Past perfect
Punctuation denoted by three periods, used to show a pause or omitted part of a quote.
What are ellipses?
Identify the word that best describes the following set: warmest, thinnest, most wonderful, smoothest, most challenging
Superlatives
Identify the tense: "He will have finished his homework before his dad comes home from work."
What is future perfect?
Identify the expression of this phrase: "He is as smelly as garbage!"
What is a simile?
Identify the correct pronoun in the sentence: "Are there any people __________ you would recommend for the position?"
What is whom?
Punctuation used to show a break or interruption in thought or to separate parts of a sentence.
What is a dash?
Choose the correct form in this sentence: "The coach told ____________ (Frank and I/Frank and me) that we will play in the second half."
What is Frank and me?
Identify the correct choice: "My sisters and _____ are going to the movies this weekend."
What is I?
An expression like "beat around the bush."
What is an idiom?
Fill in the blank: "The students knew __________ the main characters were."
What is who?
Identify the missing punctuation from the following sentence: In South Dakota, we experience summer fall winter and spring.
Comma in a series.
Where should the question mark go in this quotation?
"Where are you going?" asked his mom.
OR
"Where are you going," asked his mom?
"Where are you going?" asked his mom.
The coach told ____________ (Frank and I/Frank and me) that we will play the second half of the football game.
What is Frank and me?
Figures of speech that use exaggeration to create emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
Identify the missing punctuation from the following sentence:For my birthday, I received the following cozy socks, shiny sparkling earrings, and leather gloves.
What is colon?