Basic Part of Speech
Jump
What is a verb?
Table
What is a concrete noun?
Ran home.
What is a fragment?
I went swimming, jumping, and hiking.
What is having two or more items in a list?
This part of speech names a particular person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a proper noun?
And
What is a conjunction?
Are
We are at school.
What is a linking verb?
The dog barked all day.
What is a sentence?
We went to the movies; the new Jurassic Park film came out.
What is a semi-colon?
There are two items (besides a capital letter and ending punctuation) that are a part of every sentence.
What is a subject and a predicate?
Freedom
What is a noun?
Crowd
What is a collective noun?
Bob fell.
What is a sentence?
The type of punctuation I use around direct quotes, a short story, or the title of a poem.
What are quotation marks?
Who or what the pronoun is referring to.
What is an antecedent?
Bravo!
What is an interjection?
The FANBOYS are what type of speech?
Be specific.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
After school on Monday, Sheila, David, and I saw a massive toad dart across the street.
What is a sentence?
Once we get over this hill, the lake will appear.
What is an introductory phrase?
Sometimes answers the question when, sometimes where, sometimes what kind, but it always comes in a phrase and it always ends in a noun.
What is a prepositional phrase?
Often
What is an adverb?
Tallest
I am the tallest in my family.
What is a superlative adjective?
Far above the beautiful, mystical mountains known as the Rocky Mountains.
What is a fragment?
What is an appositive?
A phrase with a subject and a verb but no complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?