Katniss
Peeta
Gale
Haymitch
Finnick
100
A word that has the same spelling as another word but a different meaning and (sometimes) pronunciation.
What is a homograph?
100
“Eye sea yew tock king their” exemplifies this grammatical term.
What is a homonym?
100
An expression that can mean something other than the literal translation of the words within it
What is an idiom?
100
This part of speech joins words or groups of words together.
What is a conjunction?
100
You would capitalise these letters in ‘the lord of the rings’.
What are 'the', 'lord', and 'rings'?
200
The exact definition/meaning of a word as stated in the dictionary
What is a denotation?
200
‘Bravery’ is an abstract noun. ‘Scientist’ is a/an _______ noun.
What is a concrete noun?
200
A type of noun that names a group of persons or things
What is a collective noun?
200
The word ‘them’ is an example of this part of speech.
What is a pronoun?
200
A clause that can't stand on its own is called a/an ___________.
What is a subordinate clause?
300
The added meaning to a word that suggests something positive/negative
What is a connotation?
300
"The great horned owl a heavy bird is the provincial bird of Alberta." Commas should be inserted in these places.
"The great horned owl, a heavy bird, is the provincial bird of Alberta."
300
A part of speech used in place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
300
An example of a subject pronoun
What is... [he, I, she, they, it, we]?
300
A clause that can stand on its own and can function as a complete sentence
What is an independent clause?
400
A part of speech that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence
What is a preposition?
400
_____ is the plural version of ‘nucleus’.
What is 'nuclei'?
400
‘At’ is an example of this part of speech.
What is a preposition?
400
An example of an object pronoun
What is... [him, me, her, them, it, us]?
400
"The final boss is around the corner." In this sentence, 'corner' is a noun in a prepositional phrase, so it is called the "_____ of the preposition".
What is the object of the preposition?
500
A type of adjective that usually tells what kind, which one, and how many
What is a descriptive adjective?
500
This part of speech usually tells where, how, when, to what extent, and how often.
What is an adverb?
500
A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with one of these two parts of speech.
What is a noun or a pronoun?
500
An example of a possessive pronoun
What is... [his, my, mine, her, hers, their, theirs, its, our, ours]?
500
“those spiders are cute, gordon,” the bad guy began, “but i’m cuter.” These letters would be capitalised.
"Those spiders are cute, Gordon," the bad guy began, "but I'm cuter."
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