Nouns
What is a proper noun?
An action verb that needs nothing to complete it: the sentence can be complete with only a subject and a verb.
What is an intransitive verb.
The types of pronouns shown here.
I, you, it, he, she
What are personal pronouns?
The definition of an adjective.
What is words that modify or describe nouns or pronouns?
The brothers eagerly asked the Smithsonian Institution for a list of books on aeronautics.
Identify the adverb.
The preposition in the sentence:
In 1891 Lilienthal flew successfully for more than one hundred feet.
What is for?
The word but is this type of conjunction.
What is coordinating?
The nouns in this sentence:
They ran to the store because they were filled with sadness.
What is store and sadness?
Auxiliaries or...
What are helping verbs.
Used to ask direct or indirect questions
What are interrogative pronouns?
A type of adjective that signals that a noun is coming in a sentence.
What is a determiner?
Identify the adverb.
We lined up and waited for the whistle.
What is up?
The number of prepositional phrases in the sentence:
The deafening sound was like the sound of roaring freight trains or fighter planes.
What is 2?
The word because can be used as this type of conjunction.
What is subordinating?
An abstract noun is defined as:
What is things known by the mind but usually not directly perceived with the senses?
Past participle of sing.
What is sung?
Anyone, everyone, no one, someone, anybody, both, more, most
What are indefinite pronouns?
A, an, the
What are articles?
And that's how the run ended.
Identify the adverb.
What is how?
The prepositional phrase in the sentence:
He held tightly to his glider, ran into the wind, and took off.
What is ran into the wind?
The interjection in the following sentence:
Part of the Yenisei River is not navigable in Eastern Siberia, well, except for a few months of the year.
What is well?
This type of noun is always singular in form and cannot be introduced by a number word. An example would be tea.
What is a noncount noun?
The verb in the sentence:
She is an enjoyable person.
What is Is?
Each other, one another
What are reciprocal pronouns?
Identify the adjective:
I hung back waiting to see which girl was the most serious.
What is which?
Identify the adverb(s).
I hung back waiting to see which girl was the most serious about getting into the lead, and then quickened my pace to catch her.
What are back, most, then?
Down can be used as an adverb or a preposition. It is used as a(n) _____________ in the following sentence.
Put the laundry down the chute.
What is a preposition?
The type of conjunction used in this sentence:
Frightened French peasants not only attacked but also destroyed the first hydrogen balloon.
What is correlating?
Complete the following with a collective noun:______________ of fish
What is a school?
The type of verb used here:
The firefighter sounded the alarm.
What is transitive?
The pronoun and the type of pronoun in the sentence,
Hushai, whose advice Absalom listened to instead of Ahithophel's, was a spy for King David.
What is whose and relative?
Identify the adjective:
I began to identify the sound and rhythm of my steps.
What is my?
Also, besides, for example, furthermore, however, in fact, instead, nevertheless, then, therefore
What are conjunctive adverbs?
The preposition in the sentence:
The soccer team voted among themselves to select a team captain.
What is among?
The interjection used in the sentence:
Indeed, Lilienthal is believed to be the first inventor to use curved rather than flat wings.
What is indeed?