Letters, Sounds, Words
Using the Dictionary
Nouns
Verbs
Other Parts of Speech
100
Groups of letters at the beginning of words that have meaning.
What is a prefix.
100
It usually appears in the outer corner of each page of a dictionary. The first identifies the first main entry on the page, while the second identifies the last word on the page.
What is a guide word?
100
Nouns that are general names for people, places or things (example: backpack, friend, holiday, mall, teacher, video)
What is a common noun.
100
Describes activity.
What is an action verb?
100
Words that describe a noun or pronoun. They also modify, or tell more about, nouns.
What is an adjective?
200
Groups of letters at the end of words that change the original word from one part of speech to another.
What is a suffix?
200
Used to add visual reinforcement to written definitions.
What is an illustration?
200
Nouns that are names for specific people, places or things. (examples: E.T., Madison Middle School, Ms. Baptiste, Labor Day, Saturday, Nintendo, etc.)
What is a proper noun?
200
A verb that helps the main verb describe action that happened in the past, is happening in the present, or will happen in the future. There are 23 of them. (Ex., am, are, be, been, being, can, could, might, would, shall, will, etc)
What is a helping verb?
200
It describes a verb, adjective or another adverb. It also makes meaning clearer or more exact. Ex. loudly, immediately, beautifully, high, etc.
What is an adverb?
300
Words that sound the same but have different meanings. (Example: one/won, flour/flower, blue/blew, plain, plane, write, write, etc.)
What is a homonym?
300
This follows the entry word or words and gives you a way to say the word.
What is pronunciation?
300
Nouns that name people places and things that you can see, touch, taste, hear or smell.
What is a concrete noun.
300
A main verb usually preceded by the word "to" and does the work of both a verb and a noun, and it may be used as an adjective or adverb.
What is an infinitive form?
300
It relates a noun or pronoun to another word in the same sentence. It also tells where something is, where something is going, or when something is happening. It also introduces a phrase.
What is a preposition?
400
Shortened forms of words made by leaving letters out or by replacing a group of letters with another letter or symbol.
What is an abbreviation?
400
A statement that makes clear the meaning of a word.
What is definition?
400
Nouns that name ideas, feelings or qualities (ex., beauty, fairness, health, kindness, love, sadness)
What is an abstract noun?
400
Tells you the time the action takes place or the state of being -- past, present, or future. (There are 6: present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect.)
What is verb tense?
400
Words that join words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. (Examples: and, but, nor, or, yet)
What is a conjunction?
500
Words, phrases, and sentences that read the same way forward and backward. Example Words: mom, dad, noon, level, radar Example phrases: madam, I'm Adam. Example sentence: Rats live on no evil star
What is a palindrome?
500
Tells you if a word is a verb, noun, adjective, adverb, etc.
What is a part of speech?
500
Nouns that are made up of two or more words. (baseball, daydreams, electric guitar, jack--'-lantern)
What is a compound noun?
500
What is a form of a verb that can be used as a verb or as an adjective. There are two kinds: present and past
What is a participle?
500
Words, phrases, and nonsense words that express strong feelings. (Ex.: wow, help, hey, oops, eureka, phew, ouch, etc.)
What is an interjection?
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