Nouns
What is a noun?
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence.
What is a verb?
A word that is used for describing a person or any noun's attributes.
What is an adjective?
This type of word usually goes before a noun or pronoun, expressing a relation to another word or element. Example words: In, At, On
What is a preposition?
A single word formed from the combining of two words after dropping certain letters and adding an apostrophe.
What is a contraction?
This is a noun made by putting two or more words together to act as one noun. Example: Toothpaste.
What is a compound noun?
A verb used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs. Examples: Be, Have, Will, Would, Can.
What is an Auxiliary verb?
This is a literary term used to describe something that is unexpected to the reader and can sometimes be funny as a result.
What is irony?
The preposition that is missing from the sentence, connecting the noun. The card was ____ his mother.
What is for?
The shortened version of saying "I will" as in "yes, I will do that."
What is I'll?
What is a proper noun?
This type of verb describes the subject by connecting it to a predicate adjective or predicate noun. This involves anyof the five senses. "Is" being this type of verb in the example sentence: Bobby is a teacher.
What is a linking verb?
This word is commonly used and has a deep meaning to it as it can make a person feel good when they hear it. Example: I have always thought my wife was _____ but especially on our wedding day.
What is beautiful?
This may be the most common preposition as it's used widely, and it is missing from the sentence: My friend likes ___ live in the city.
What is to?
This contraction can be used as a warning or instruction for people. Example: You _____ go into that abandoned building, it's dangerous.
What is Shouldn't?
A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. Example:Bravery.
What is an abstract noun?
This type of verb does not require a direct object. Examples include: Talk, listen, appear, run, and sleep.
What is an intransitive verb?
This adjective is a common literary term for having an underlying meaning within a play or story.
What is an Allegory?
It's a good rule of thumb to not end a sentence with a preposition. This word is incorrectly placed: The table is where I put my books ____.
Whereas, this sentence would be correct: I turned the TV ____.
What is on?
This can be a way to show possession or act in contraction with the auxiliary verb 'have'
This noun refers to a physical object in the real world. Examples: Laptop, Bill of Rights, Flowers.
What is a concrete noun?
This type of verb requires a direct object. Example word 'borrow' in the sentence. He wanted to borrow some money.
What is a transitive verb?
This adjective describes an older period of time as well as a colloquially old object/person.
What is ancient?
These two words and commonly substituted, but only one is the correct preposition to use. Example: I should ____ done that earlier in the day.
What are 'Have' and 'Of'?
A male or female contraction that can represent having or being in a sentence. Example: ____ leaving for the store right now. Example: _____ got something I want to buy.
What is he's or she's?