Nouns/Verbs
Adjectives/Adverbs
Misc. Parts of Speech
Subjects/Predicates
Wildcard
100

Identify the SINGULAR and PLURAL nouns in the following sentence:

My parents expect us children to help with the housework.

Singular: housework

Plural: parents, children

100

A word that modifies a noun or pronoun by limiting its meaning.

What is an adjective?

100

A word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence.

What is a preposition?

100

Describe what a simple subject is. 

What is the main noun or pronoun that the sentence is about?

100

Mr. Felano's favorite sport. 

What is soccer?

200

Describe the difference between CONCRETE and ABSTRACT nouns, and name an example of each of them.

Concrete - names an object that occupies space or can be recognized by any of the senses, ex: phone, sky, grass, bicycle.

Abstract - names an idea, quality, or characteristic, ex: love, happiness, sleepiness, anger.

 

200

The adjectives "a," "an," and "the."

What are articles?

200

Name 3 prepositions.

Answers will vary.
200

Describe what a simple predicate is.

What is the main verb/verb phrase that expresses action or being about the subject?

200

The school Mr. Felano will be teaching at in the fall.

What is Verona High School?

300

This links, or joins, the subject of a sentence (often a noun or pronoun) with a word or expression the identifies or describes the subject.

What is a linking verb?

300

The parts of speech an adverb modifies.

What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?

300

A word that joins single words or groups of words.

What is a conjunction?

300

Describe what makes up the complete subject. 

What is the simple subject plus all of the words that tell about it, I.e. modifiers, etc. 

300

Mr. Felano's favorite superhero. 

Who is Batman?

400

Name 3 interrogative pronouns.

What are "who," "whom," "which," "whose," and "what"?

400
The questions that an adverb answers.

What are "when," "where," "how," and "to what degree?"

400

Identify the prepositional phrase(s) and object(s) of the preposition(s) in the following sentence:

The horses jumped over the fence and headed for the forest.

What are "over the fence" and "headed for the forest"?

400

Describe what makes up the complete predicate. 

What is all of the words that tell what the subject is or does, including the simple predicate.

400

Mr. Felano's favorite book. 

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

500

The difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.

What is that a transitive verb is an action verb that is followed by a word or words that answer "what?" or "whom?" and that an intransitive verb is an action verb that is not followed by words that answer those questions?

500

Identify ALL modifiers in the following sentence.

We woke up early this beautiful morning to get some hard work done. 

Adjectives: "beautiful," "hard," "some," and "done"

Adverbs: "early"

Article: "this"

500

List the differences between coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions.

Coordinating: join words that have equal grammatical weight; "and," "but," "or," "nor," "for," "so," "yet"

Correlative: works in pairs to join words of equal weight; "both...and," "just as...so," "either...or," "neither...nor"

Subordinating: joins two clauses so that one is grammatically dependent on the other; "after," "because," "since," "until"

500

Identify the simple/complete subject and predicate in the following sentence.

The president of our class won the election by a landslide.

What is...

The president of our class won the election by a landslide.

500

Mr. Felano's favorite Marvel movie. 

What is Captain America: The Winter Soldier?

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