Parts of Speech
Using the right word
Plural forms of nouns
Punctuation
Words with long vowel sounds
100
Used in place of a noun in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
100
Alternate/Alternative - Since the road was blocked, we took the ____________ route. ____________ is an adjective meaning "other".
What is a ALTERNATE?
100
More than one MOOSE.
What is MOOSE?
100
Used to keep words and ideas from running together in a sentence.
What are commas?
100
The plural form of GOOSE?
What is GEESE?
200
A word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
What is an adjective?
200
Bare/Bear She put her _____________ feet in to the cool stream.
What is BARE?
200
More than one SKY.
What are SKIES?
200
A cross between a period and a comma, it is sometimes used in place of a period; other times, it serves the same function as a comma.
What is a SEMICOLON?
200
A synonym for "organized"
What is NEAT?
300
A word that relates a nound or pronoun to another word in the sentence - ON, FROM
What is a preposition?
300
A lot / Alot __________ of my friends like jeans with holes in them.
What is A LOT (two words)?
300
More than one WATCH.
What are WATCHES.
300
Used to divide or join words in a sentence.
What is a hyphen?
300
You do this to a book.
What is a READ?
400
A word or phrase used to express strong emotion or surprise. A comma or an exclamation point is used to seperate it from the rest of the sentence.
What is an interjection?
400
Fewer/less There are ___________ drums than drummers in the school band.
What is FEWER? Fewer refers to something you can count. LESS refers to something you can't count, "I get less time to practise."
400
More than one SAFE.
What are SAFES?
400
Used to form plurals, to show that a letter or letters have been left out of a word, or to show possession.
What is an apostrophe?
400
Grapes are crushed, fermented, and turned into this alcoholic beverage.
What is WINE?
500
Connects individual words or groups of words, for example and, but, or, so , yet, after, although.
What is a conjunction?
500
Lay, lie Please ___________ the sleeping bag on the floor.
What is LAY? LAY means "to place" LIE means "to recline"
500
More than one SALMON.
What are SALMON.
500
Used to enclose the exact words of the speaker, to show that words are used in a special way, and to punctuate titles.
What are QUOTATION MARKS?
500
With two long vowel sounds this word means to 'do it again'.
What is REPEAT?
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