Category 1
What should you always do at the beginning of a sentence?
Put a capital letter
What do you put at the very end of a question sentence?
A question mark "?"
What do you put at the end of an exclamatory sentence? A sentence that shows strong feeling.
An exclamation mark "!"
What always needs to be at the end of a sentence?
Punctuation mark
What do you put at the end of a declarative sentence? A sentence that tells about something.
A period "."
A type of noun that is a specific name for a particular person.
Proper Noun
A person, place, or thing.
Noun
A word that expresses an action or a state of being.
Verb
A word at modifies a noun. It describes the noun.
Adjective
A word that modifies and adjective or a very.
Adverb
Whom or what is being talked about in a sentence is called the ____?
Subject
What is a group of words that expresses a complete thought?
Sentence
A word that means the same as another word.
Synonym
A word that means the opposite of another word.
Antonym
What is the difference between a synonym and an antonym?
Synonyms have similar meanings; antonyms have opposite meanings
This part of speech connects words or phrases.
A Conjuction
What part of speech is the word “quickly” in the sentence: “He quickly ran down the stairs”?
Adverb
Which sentence is correct?
A) Their going to the beach.
B) They’re going to the beach.
C) There going to the beach.
B) They’re going to the beach.
What do we call a word that imitates a sound, like “drip... drip”?
Onomatopoeia
What’s the word for when several words start with the same sound, like “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”?
Alliteration
What’s the difference between “your” and “you’re”?
"Your" shows possession, "you’re" means "you are".
What is wrong with this sentence: “Me and my friend went to the store.”?
It should be "My friend and I went to the store"?
What do we call words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like “flour” and “flower”?
Homophones
Identify all the nouns in this sentence: “The excited children ran through the park with their dog.”
"Children, park, dog"
Choose the correct word: “I want to go too/two/to the store.”
"to"