Verbals
Complements
Figurative Language
Parts of speech
Troublesome Words
100
The infinitive in the following sentence: He wants to go to the movies with his friends.
What is to go?
100
Identify the direct object in the following sentence: Robbie took the book to the library.
What is book?
100
Identify what figurative device is used in the following sentence. The wind whistled and wailed a haunting tune.
What is personification?
100
He is what part of speech in this sentence? Today he left his phone at home.
What is a pronoun?
100
Please (sit, set) the flowers on the table.
What is set?
200
This is the gerund in the following sentence: Flying a kite is something that makes him happy.
What is flying or flying a kite?
200
Identify the predicate noun in the following sentence: She was a world class dancer.
What is dancer?
200
Identify the figurative device in the following sentence. I will float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
What is a simile?
200
Name the part of speech for about. They found out about the disaster yesterday.
What is preposition?
200
(There, Their, They're) going to be excited when they hear your poem.
What is They're?
300
This is the name of the verbal that can end in ing or ed and acts like an adjective.
What is a participle?
300
Identify the indirect object in the following sentence: Austin gave Connor a birthday present.
What is Connor?
300
What is the figurative device in the following sentence: His voice was knife cutting through the silence.
What is a metaphor?
300
Name the part of speech for will call. He will call her later to discuss the flight.
What is verb?
300
She was told to (lie, lay) down to rest.
What is lie?
400
Identify the participle in the following sentence: The crying baby looked all around for his mother.
What is crying?
400
Identify the predicate adjective in the following sentence: She was too tired to go to the play.
What is tired?
400
What is the figurative device in the following sentence. The tornado sounded like a locomotive.
What is simile?
400
Name the part of speech for later in the following sentence. Jacob and Michael will do their homework later.
What is an adverb?
400
Did you (here, hear) the exciting news?
What is hear?
500
Identify the gerund phrase in the following sentence: Following the yellow brick road is what Dorothy did.
What is following the yellow brick road?
500
Identify what complement the flower is in the following sentence: An angry bee circled the beautiful flower before landing.
What is flower?
500
Name the figurative device in the following sentence: The gum clung to the chair with spindly fingers.
What is personification?
500
Name the part of speech for nightly. His nightly job included locking the store.
What is an adjective?
500
Please (accept, except) my apologies.
What is accept?
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