Parts of Speech
Specialties
Subject-Verb Agreement
Personal Pronouns
Make My Head Hurt
100
This modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
100
A participle has three endings and acts as this.
What is end in -ing, -ed, -en and acts as an adjective?
100
When a subject is singular, the verb will end in this.
What is "s"?
100
A personal pronoun takes the place of this.
What is a noun?
100
This is a sentence type which demands or commands an action.
What is an imperative sentence?
200
These are modified by an adverb.
What are verbs, adjectives and adverbs?
200
These are the "be" verbs.
What are is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been?
200
This is a noun used to name a whole group.
What is a collective noun?
200
These are the singular subjective/nominative pronouns for the 3rd person.
What are he, she, and it?
200
This connects an adjective clause to the noun it modifies.
What is a relative pronoun?
300
What are the conjunctions?
What are F(for), A(and), N(nor), B(but), O(or), Y(yet), S(so)?
300
This is preceded by the word "to" and acts as an adverb or a noun.
What is an infinitive?
300
Subjects joined by "or" or "nor" take the verb which agrees with this.
What is the last subject or the subject closest to the verb?
300
Their and theirs would be labeled as this type of personal pronoun and this person.
What is possessive pronoun in the third person?
300
These are the six troublesome verbs.
What are lie/lay, sit/set, and rise/raise?
400
These are verbs which do not act like verbs, but rather adjectives, adverbs, or nouns.
What are verbals?
400
In the following sentence, identify the participle(s):
Sighing, he looked down at his damaged compass; he would be seeking revenge on the drunken sailor.
What are "Sighing", "damaged", and "drunken"?
400
The subjects "most" and "all" can either be singular or plural depending on this.
What is the object of the preposition?
400
These make up the first person singular and plural pronouns for Subjective/Nominative, Objective, and Possessive.
What are I, we, me, us, my, mine, our, ours?
400
These are the six relative pronouns.
What are that, whom, who, whose, and which?
500
Clauses always have these, and there are two types of clauses.
What are a subject and predicate, and independent and subordinate clauses?
500
Diagram this sentence:
Because I love to golf, I practice at a driving range and at a course which is nearby.
500
These 12 generic subjects always take a singular verb.
What is one, no one, anyone, everyone, someeone, nobody, anybody, everybody, somebody, each, either, neither?
500
This is the time when you would use a pronoun in the Objective form.
What is when it is a direct object, indirect object, object of a preposition?
500
These are the 4 sentence types that define structure.
What are simple, compound, complex, compound-complex?