Name That Part of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
“School” is a common noun, but “Kettle Run High School” is this type of noun.
What is a proper noun?
This coordinating conjunction shows contrast: “Montag is a fireman, ___ he begins questioning his job.”
What is but?
Identify the complete subject: “The mechanical hound watches Montag.”
What is the mechanical hound?
This type of clause contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
Identify the adjective in this sentence: “The curious student opened the book.”
What is curious?
“Courage” and “freedom” are this type of noun because they name ideas or qualities.
What are abstract nouns?
The conjunctions represented by FANBOYS belong to this group.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
Identify the complete predicate: “Clarisse asks thoughtful questions.”
What is asks thoughtful questions?
Identify the dependent clause: “Because Clarisse asks questions, Montag begins to think differently.”
What is Because Clarisse asks questions?
Identify the pronoun in this sentence: “They finished the assignment before lunch.”
What is they?
“Desk,” “apple,” and “thunder” are this type of noun because they can be experienced through the senses.
What are concrete nouns?
“Either…or,” “neither…nor,” and “both…and” belong to this group of conjunctions.
What are correlative conjunctions?
Identify the direct object: “Montag hides the books.”
What is books?
“Although Montag wanted answers.” is this sentence error.
What is a fragment?
Identify the verb and adverb in this sentence: “Montag walked cautiously.”
What are walked (verb) and cautiously (adverb)?
Identify the compound noun in this sentence: “My sister-in-law visited yesterday.”
What is sister-in-law?
Identify the subordinating conjunction: “Although Mildred is surrounded by entertainment, she is unhappy.”
What is although?
Identify the indirect object: “Faber gives Montag advice.”
What is Montag?
“Montag reads a book he begins questioning society.” is this sentence error.
What is a run-on, specifically a fused sentence?
Identify the interjection and preposition in this sentence: “Wow! Your notebook is under the desk.”
What are Wow (interjection) and under (preposition)?
Identify the compound verbs that share a subject: “Clarisse observes the world and questions its rules.”
What are observes and questions?
Identify the conjunction and its type: “Neither George nor Hazel challenges the government.”
What is neither…nor, a correlative conjunction?
Identify the subject, verb, indirect object, and direct object: “The teacher gave the students a review sheet.”
What are teacher, gave, students, and review sheet, respectively?
Correct this comma splice: “Clarisse asks questions, Montag listens carefully.”
What is “Clarisse asks questions, and Montag listens carefully”? Also accept a period or semicolon between the clauses.