Parts of
Speech
Speech
Names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
It (doesn't/don't) seem so cold today.
What is doesn't?
After running errands all morning.
What is a fragment?
These punctuation marks can end a sentence or question.
What are period, question mark, and exclamation point?
This word should always be capitalized.
What is I?
The pronoun in the following sentence:
The person who wrote this book is amazing.
What is who?
Some of the tables (is/are) wet and dirty?
What is are?
I bought a new dress for the dance my sister wanted to get one, too.
What is a run-on?
Commas should be placed after the following words:
I am going to the store to buy bread eggs milk and chips.
What are bread, eggs, and milk?
This word should not be capitalized in the following:
The man's Wife was late.
What is Wife?
FANBOYS
What are coordinating conjunctions?
Most of the milk (is/are) in the floor.
What is is?
My best friend, Karen, lives an hour away so I don't get to see her as often as I'd like.
What is a run-on?
This punctuation mark separates independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
The following capitalization errors should be corrected:
Tuesday, february 14, is valentine's day.
What are February, Valentine's, and Day?
Most end in -ly
What are adverbs?
Under the fence (grow/grows) beautiful flowers.
What is grow?
Just because I wanted to go to the dance with my friends and my mom and dad got mad at me the night before.
What is a fragment?
The colon should be placed between these words in the following sentence:
You will need to purchase the following supplies for English paper, pencil, binder, dividers, and highlighters.
What are English and paper?
The following words should be capitalized in the below sentence:
the weather in march is usually very windy.
What are The and March?
Am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being, have, has, had, do, does, did, may, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, would if used with another verb.
What is a helping verb?
Either the workers or the boss (deliver/delivers) the merchandise.
What is delivers?
Zac is leaving at 4 AM, he wants to arrive at the beach before noon.
What is comma splice?
What are periods and commas?
The following words should NOT be capitalized:
My Aunt Jenny loves Math, but Uncle Lee enjoys Spanish and Music.
What are Aunt, Math, and Music?