The Westing Game
Parts of Speech
Wordly Wise
Classroom rules
What part of speech is the italics?
100

She will kick you in the shin if you touch her hair.

Turtle

100

A person, place, thing, or idea.

A noun.

100

V. To make empty, as by leaving.

Vacate
100

If the teacher is talking, you are doing this.

Being quiet and listening.

100

The tall tree swayed in the wind.

Adj.

200

The definition of the word "tenants".

People who live in a place owned by a landlord.
200

This modifies verbs, adverbs, and adjectives.

Adverb.

200

V. To keep seperate or apart.

Segregate

200

This is what you do if you have a question.

Raise your hand.

200

She ran toward the plaground.

Preposition

300

What did Chris see in chapter 2?

A person enter the Westing house.

300

What is an article?

A word that comes before a noun to specify whether the noun is definite (a specific, known thing) or indefinite (a general or unknown thing). 

A/an, the.

300

Adj. Going on without stopping.

Continuous.

300

If the slides changes too quickly, you can do one of these options to get the information.

Ask your shoulder buddy if you can copy theirs or asking the teacher after class.

300

have never seen that movie before.

Verb phrase.

400

This person does not exist.

Barney Northrup.

400

What is the comparative and superlative form of this adjective: tall

Taller and tallest.

400

V. To come into veiw; to appear.

Emerge

400

You write this on every homework you get.

Your name (first and last) and your element
400

I read the story in bed last night.

Verb

500

He opened a restaraunt in the building.

Mr. Hoo

500
What is a linking verb and how do you find it?

A linking verb connects the subject of a sentence to an adjective, noun, or pronoun that renames or describes it.

You can use an equal sign. 

500

Adj. Having from birth; occuring naturally rather than being learned.

Innate

500

After collecting all the papers from their row, row captains are suppoesd to do this to let the teacher know to pick it up.

Hold up the papers

500

He walked carefully around the pool to avoid slipping in.

Adverb

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