Nouns
What is a noun?
A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is the relationship in the following word:
new, current
A) Synonyms
B) Antonyms
C) Homophones
D) Open compound word
A) Synonyms
What is a verb?
A verb is a word that does an action, shows a state-of-being, links two words together, or helps another verb.
What are the four types of sentences?
Declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative.
What is an adjective?
For a Bonus 100 Points, what do adjectives tell?
A word that describes a noun or pronoun.
Bonus: Adjectives tell what kind, which one, how many, or whose.
What is the subject in the following sentence?
"We will go over the river and through the woods."
We
What is a pronoun?
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is the relationship in the following word:
new, knew
A) Synonyms
B) Antonyms
C) Homophones
D) Open compound word
C) Homophones
What is an action verb?
A verb that does an action.
What type of sentence ends in a question mark?
Interrogative sentences.
What's an adverb?
For a Bonus 200 points, what do adverbs tell?
A word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Bonus: Adverbs tell what kind, which one, how many, or whose.
What is the verb or verb phrase in the following sentence?
"We will go over the river and through the woods."
"will go"
What doe the subject tell?
The subject tells what or who the sentence is about.
What is the relationship in the following word:
new, old
A) Synonyms
B) Antonyms
C) Homophones
D) Open compound word
B) Antonyms
What are the helping verbs?
For a Bonus 200 points: What is a helping verb?
am/ is/ are, was, were/ be/ being/ been// have, has, had/ do, does, did/ shall, will, should, would, may, might, must/ can, could//
Bonus: A verb that helps a main verb say something different.
What types of sentences ends in an exclamation mark?
Exclamatory sentences and imperative sentences.
What are the three article adjectives?
a, an, & the.
If there are any, what are the prepositions in the following sentence?
"We will go over the river and through the woods."
For a Bonus 100 Points, if there are any, what are the objects of the prepositions?
over, through
Bonus: river, woods
What is a direct object?
What is the relationship in the following word:
new moon
A) Synonyms
B) Antonyms
C) Homophones
D) Open compound word
D) Open compound word
What is a linking verb?
A verb that links a word in the predicate with the subject.
What types of sentences end in a period?
How many adjectives are in the following sentence?
"The very hungry lion roars really loudly."
There are two adjectives.
How many words in the following sentence would be diagrammed on diagonal lines?
"We will go over the river and through the woods."
For 200 Bonus points, name the words.
Four
Bonus: over, the, through, the
What is a predicate nominative?
A noun (or pronoun) that works with a linking verb to rename the subject.
What are onomatopoeia?
Words that sound like what they mean.
What are the linking verbs?
am/ is/ are, was, were/ be/ being/ been//
What type of sentence is the following sentence?
"Please sit down."
For a bonus 300 points, how many words would be diagrammed on horizontal lines?
Imperative.
Bonus: Two [(you), sit]
How many adverbs are in the following sentence?
"The very hungry lion roars really loudly."
There are three adverbs.
How many different parts of speech are in the following sentence?
"We will go over the river and through the woods."
For a bonus 300 points, name the parts of speech.
There are six different parts of speech.
Bonus: Pronoun, Verb, Preposition, Adjective, Noun, and Conjunction.