Punctuation
Parts of Speech
Nouns
Sentences
Mixture
100
Shows a short pause between words or groups of words. ,
What is a comma?
100
A word that names a person, place, thing, event, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
A word that names a specific person, place, thing, event, or idea. Must be capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
100
A group of words that expresses a complete thought.
What is a sentence?
100
Introduces a series of items. :
What is a colon?
200
A pair of round brackets ( )
What are parentheses?
200
A word that expresses action or a state of being. (examples: run, is)
What is a verb?
200
A noun that names more than one person, place, thing, event, or idea.
What is a plural noun?
200
A group of words that does not express a complete thought. ***DOUBLE JEOPARDY***
What is a fragment?
200
Used between parts of compound numbers, fractions, and some compound words. (examples: two-thirds, thirty-one)
What is a hyphen?
300
Joins two closely related sentences. ;
What is a semicolon?
300
A word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
What is an adjective?
300
The following words are examples of what type of nouns: Valley Fair, Ann, New Ulm, Minnesota.
What are proper nouns?
300
A sentence that asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
300
A word that is used to join words, phrases, or sentences. (examples: and, but, or)
What is a conjunction?
400
A punctuation mark used with possessive nouns to show ownership or relationship. (example: Ann's shoe)
What is an apostrophe?
400
A special group of adjectives that includes the words a, an, and the.
What are articles?
400
The following words are examples of what kind of nouns: cats, dogs, shirts, books.
What are plural nouns?
400
Two or more sentences that are written incorrectly as one sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
The part of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
500
Show the beginning and end of someone's exact words. Example: Mrs. Hoffmann said, "Please stop talking."
What are quotation marks?
500
A word that shows how a noun or pronoun relates to another word. (examples: about, near, with)
What is a preposition?
500
A word that takes the place of one or more nouns. (examples: he, she, it, they)
What are pronouns?
500
A word or group of words that expresses emotion and is followed by an exclamation point or a comma.
What is an interjection?
500
The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or is; it includes the verb.
What is the predicate?
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