Noun Basics
Is James a common noun or a proper noun?
What is a proper noun?
The word "jump" is a helping verb, linking verb, or action verb?
What is an action verb?
A complete sentence is also referred to as an independent clause or a ___________________.
What is a complete thought?
What skills utilize rapid eye movement to either locate or move through a passage quickly?
What are skimming and scanning?
What is the correct verb to use here: (Is/ Are) you excited?
What is are?
A noun can be a person, place, thing, or _________.
What is an idea?
Identify the verb in the sentence: We study every night.
What is study?
What two elements are necessary to form a complete sentence?
What are a subject and a verb?
What type of writing is based on actual events and/or facts?
What is nonfiction?
What is the correct verb to use here: When (is/are) we going to arrive?
What is are?
A word that can take the place of a noun to avoid repetition in a sentence is a ____________.
What is a pronoun?
Identify the verb type in the following sentence: Sam is helpful.
What is a linking verb?
Is this a complete sentence? I scream.
Yes!
What is the sequence of events in fiction that builds a story? Elements include beginning (exposition), rising action, climax, falling action, and end.
What is the plot?
What is the correct verb to use here? People must (be/have) twenty-one to attend.
What is be?
Nouns can be singular or ___________.
What is plural?
What type of verb assists the main verb in order to form a complete thought?
What is a helping verb?
Subjects can be singular or ______________.
What is plural?
What type of writing involves genres like action/adventure, horror, fantasy, and sci-fi?
What is fiction?
What is the correct verb to use here? Jenna (is/are) my best friend.
What is is?
My/ mine, his, her/ hers, your/ yours, and their/theirs are all subjective pronouns, objective pronouns, or possessive pronouns?
What are possessive pronouns?
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: We should have been walking to the store.
What are should, have, and been?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: I left the hammer in the garage.
What is in the garage?
What is the order of events in which an event unfolds? This is used in both fiction and nonfiction.
What is sequence?
Change the verb in the following sentence to the simple past: She learns quickly.
What is learned?