What are interjection, verb, adverb, noun, conjunction, adjective, pronoun, and preposition?
100
This part of speech shows the relationship between a nouns and pronouns and their objects.
What is a preposition?
100
This type of noun is always capitalized, no matter where it appears in a sentence.
What is a proper noun?
100
These two types of pronouns should be avoided when writing in a formal, academic tone.
What are first-person and second-person pronouns?
100
These are the three types of verbs.
What are action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs?
200
This part of speech describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
200
These are the nouns in the following sentence:
Tuberculosis haunted Poe's reality and his writings.
What are tuberculosis, Poe's, reality, and writings.
200
This type of noun is only capitalized if it is the first word in a sentence.
What is a common noun?
200
These are the second person pronouns. (Hint: There are four.)
What are "you," "your," "yours," and "yourself"?
200
This is the subject complement in the following sentence:
With a newspaper deadline looming, Mrs. Bryant is on edge.
What is "on edge"?
300
This part of speech replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
300
These are the pronouns in the following sentence:
Not only did Poe lose his mother to tuberculosis but he also lost his foster mother and wife to it.
What are his, he, and it?
300
This is a corresponding proper noun for the common noun "country."
What is the United States of America (or any other country)?
300
This is the antecedent for the pronoun "she" in the following sentence:
Mrs. Alvis's cupcakes are delicious. My favorite flavor that she makes is Nutter Butter.
What is "Mrs. Alvis"?
300
This is the voice of the following sentence:
The 1996 Geo Metro was repaired by the mechanic for the third time this year.
What is passive voice?
400
This connects the subject to the subject complement.
What is a linking verb?
400
These are the verbs in the following sentence:
The losses only deepened Poe's depression and plunged him further into his alcoholism.
What are deepened and plunged?
400
This needs to be corrected in the following sentence:
My aunt is visiting us next week; Lydia is my mother's eldest sister.
What is nothing--the sentence is correct as is?
400
This is an acceptable revision of the following sentence:
Mary and Lacey both want to be pitcher for the softball team, but only she has the necessary skills to fast-pitch.
What is " . . . but only Mary . . . " or " . . . but only Lacey . . . "?
400
This is the voice of the following sentence:
Nimue let out a guttural wail as she mourned the loss of her baby brother.
What is active voice?
500
This is the noun that a pronoun refers back to.
What is an antecedent?
500
This mnemonic device will help you to remember the names of the eight parts of speech.
What is Ivan Capp?
500
This needs to be corrected in the following sentence:
Last night I couldn't fall asleep, so I drove to wal-mart and walked around for an hour.
What is capitalize the proper noun "Wal-Mart"?
500
This is an acceptable revision of the following sentence:
While teachers and researchers agree that cell-phone use in class can be a major distraction, my friends and I disagree because we use our phones all the time and still make decent grades.
What is "While teachers and researchers agree that cell phone use in class can be a major distraction, many students feel this is untrue because they make decent grades while using their phones."?
500
This is an acceptable revision of the following sentence:
Casey was chased down Harrison Avenue by a mob of zombies.
What is "A mob of zombies chased Casey down Harrison Avenue."?