Nouns
Verbs
Adjective or Adverb
Interjection or Conjunction
The American Romantics
100
What or who is the subject of this sentence? "Three students walked to school."
What are students?
100
Name the verb in this sentence: "I trotted to first base."
What is trotted?
100
Yesterday, I laughed at Joe. Yesterday is an _________
What is an adverb?
100
One of these words is NOT a conjunction. "and" "but" "for" "because."
What is "because"?
100
The American Romantics included Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and _____________.
Who is Edgar Alan Poe?
200
One of these words is a proper noun: store, love, sunday, or boy.
What is Sunday?
200
What kind of verb is in the following sentence: "I am tired today."
What is the verb "to be"?
200
I ran swiftly through the forest. Swiftly is an ________.
What is adverb
200
There is one interjection in this sentence. "Yes, I will go get coffee."
What is "yes"?
200
This was the thing that the prince and all his people were partying to get away from... Of course, it didn't work.
Who is the Red Death?
300
The subject of this sentence is either a concrete or abstract noun. "The situation bothers me."
What is an an abstract noun?
300
How many verbs are in this sentence? "I ran very quickly yesterday, when the aliens chased me out of Vermont."
What is two?
300
List the adjectives in this sentence. The intelligent and charming students in the class thought that their teacher, Virginia, was marvelous.
What are "intelligent," "charming," and "marvelous"?
300
These 7 words are the only conjunctions in the English Language.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
300
Montressor and Fortunato are characters in this Poe story.
What is The Cask of Amontillado?
400
List the nouns in this sentence. "The dog walked slowly to the road, and he lay down in exhaustion."
What are dog, road, and exhaustion?
400
The predicate in this sentence begins with the word _____ "Three days ago, I passed the driver education test."
What is "passed"?
400
An adjective answers one of three possible questions.
What is "which one," "how many," or "what kind"?
400
A(n) ___________ is a word that can stand alone and/or shows strong emotion.
What is an interjection?
400
Usher accidentally did this to his sister.
What is "buried her alive"?
500
Replace the three nouns in this sentence with pronoun equivalents. "Luke sat in class and stared at a book."
What are he, there, and it?
500
Correct the sentence: "Last year I speak to the senior class before they graduating.
What is "Last year I spoke to the senior class before they graduated"?
500
An adverb answers when, where, or ______ something happened.
What is "how"?
500
One of the conjunctions in this sentence doesn't fit : "I drove Alex and Gene to the store, but neither Alex nor Gene had any money, but I drove them home.
What is "but"?
500
The ideals the American Romantics cared about included; the supernatural, love of nature, love of beauty, patriotism, ___________, and _______________.
What are individualism and utopia?
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