Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Helping Verbs
Simple and Compound Sentences
Interjections
100
A word that describes what someone or something does
What is an action verb?
100
A word that connects a sentence's subject with a noun or adjective in the predicate
What is a linking verb?
100
A word that helps the main verb express an action or make a statement
What is a helping verb?
100
A sentence that contains one subject and one predicate
What is a simple sentence?
100
A word or group of words that expresses a mild or strong feeling
What is an interjection?
200
The action verb in the sentence "The dog ran very fast."
What is ran?
200
A symbol that is often used to test if a word is a linking verb
What is an equal sign?
200
Helping verbs often travel in these
What are pairs?
200
A sentence that contains two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction
What is a compound sentence?
200
The punctuation mark used to express strong feeling in an interjection
What is an exclamation point?
300
This tells when a verb takes place.
What is a tense?
300
Some common linking verbs
What are: is, are, appear, look, taste, etc.?
300
A tense in which forms of the helping verb "have" are used
What is the past tense?
300
The three conjunctions that are commmonly used to create a compound sentence
What are and, but, and or?
300
Some common interjections
What are: ah, aha, all right, awesome, bravo, congratulations, good grief, great, hey, hi, hello, hooray, phew, oh, oh no, oops, ouch, ow, no, ugh, wow, yes?
400
The action verb in the sentence "The beach sand drifted away in the gentle breeze."
What is drifted?
400
The linking verb in the sentence "The dog's coat appears very glossy."
What is appears?
400
A location in which helping verbs are located in a sentence with reference to the action verb
What is before?
400
A punctuation mark used to replace the conjunction in a compound sentence
What is a semicolon?
400
The location of an interjection with referance to the rest of the sentence
What is before or after?
500
The action verb in the sentence "The darkness engulfed whatever objects remained in the desolate field."
What is engulfed?
500
The linking verb in the sentence "The chicken marsala paired with the truffled risotto tastes absolutely splendid."
What is tastes?
500
The tense in which forms of the helping verb "be" are used
What is the present tense?
500
A sentence type made up of a simple sentence and a sentence fragment
What is a complex sentence?
500
The punctuation used to express a mild feeling with an interjection
What is a comma?
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