What is a person, place, thing, and sometimes an idea.
100
The word part bio means _______.
What is life.
100
What type of verb must you have in order to have a direct object?
What is an action verb.
100
Name three prepositions.
What is answers will vary.
200
What is the part of speech of cantankerous?
Daily Double: for double pts., what does cantankerous translate to in Middle English?
What is an adjective and troublemaker.
200
What is the job of a pronoun?
What is to take the place of a noun or another pronoun.
200
Spell the word that means goodbye in Spanish.
What is adios.
200
What questions do the direct object answer?
What are what or whom.
200
What is the predicate of a sentence?
What is from the verb to the end of the sentence.
300
What is the meaning of plethora?
Daily Double- What is its etymology?
What is an abundance, more than enough. It is Greek.
300
What is an abstract noun?
Daily Double: List 3 abstract nouns
What is a noun that cannot be seen, touched, or agreed upon. Answers may vary.
300
What is the etymology of waltz?
What is German.
300
What is the direct object in the following sentence?
For the bike ride to school, Kate wore her helmet.
What is helmet.
300
The following is an example of what type of context clue?
Unlike Tim who is very melancholy on rainy days, Tracy is always in great spirits.
What is contrast.
400
What word has an Italian etymology and is an antonym for success?
What is fiasco.
400
What type of pronoun is him in the following sentence?
Lisa gave him her extra umbrella.
What is objective.
400
Spell the word that means the feeling that something has happened before.
What is deja vu.
400
Indirect objects answer what two questions?
What are to or for.
400
To plus a verb is NOT a prepositional phrase; it is called a(n) ___________.
What is an infinitive.
500
What two vocab words from the first quarter share the same part of speech and are exact antonyms of one another?
What are dapper and disheveled.
500
Name the three types of personal pronouns.
What are possessive, nominative, and objective.
500
Spell the word that means finely chopped cabbage left to ferment or sour.
What is sauerkraut.
500
What are the 4 steps to locating the indirect object?
What are: cross out prep.phrases, locate action verb, ask what or whom to find D.O., ask to or for after D.O.
500
If you have a linking verb instead of an action verb you CANNOT have a direct object, but you have something that looks/acts similar. What are these called?