Parts of Speech
Roots
Authors
Literature Marks
Teachers
100
This is a person, a place, a thing, an idea, a quality, or an action.
What is a NOUN?
100
This root word comes from the Greek meaning, 'human being.'
What is ANTHROP?
100
This Author was the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
This introduces a list in the sentence.
What is a COLON?
100
This teacher is the professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture at Vanderbilt University.
Who is Robert T. Jimenez?
200
This expresses an action, a condition, or a state of being.
What is a VERB?
200
This root word comes from the Greek meaning, 'water.'
What is HYDR?
200
This Author was the writer of, 'Three Men in a Boat.'
Who is Jerome k. Jerome?
200
These will enclose less important material.
What are PARENTHESES?
200
This person is the professor of Educational Research, Foundations, and Policy at the University of Virginia?
Who is Carol Ann Tomlinson?
300
This Joins words or word groups.
What is a CONJUNCTION?
300
This root word comes from the Latin meaning, 'seek.'
What is QUEST?
300
This Author came up with the world wide known phrase, 'To be or not To be.'
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
These will replace material omitted from a quotation.
What are ELLIPSES?
300
This person is the professor of Reading and Language at National-Louis University in Chicago.
Who is Donna M. Ogle?
400
This relates one word to another word.
What is a PREPOSITION?
400
This root word comes from the Latin word, 'hang.'
What is PEND?
400
This Author wrote the book, 'Ghare-Baire and The Gardener.'
Who is Rabindranath Tagore?
400
This joins parts of a compound adjective before a noun.
What is a HYPHEN?
400
This person is the distinguished professor at the University of Albany.
Who is Judith A. Langer?
500
This modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an ADJECTIVE?
500
This root word comes from the Old English meaning, 'head,top.'
What is HEADFOD?
500
This Author wrote the book, 'War and Peace.'
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
500
This is used with 's' to form the plural of a letter.
What is an APOSTROPHE?
500
This person is the Leading Professor at the University of Albany.
Who is Arthur N. Applebee?
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