Who?
Who Me?
How?
What?
Tell Me More!
100
A word that names a person, place, a thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
A word that takes the place of one of more nouns. Use this to avoid repeating words.
What is a pronoun?
100
A word that describes a noun or pronoun. They can tell how many, what color, or what size or shape. They can also describe how something feels, sounds, tastes, or smells.
What is an adjective?
100
It expresses an action or being.
What is a verb?
100
A noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb.
What is a direct object?
200
Names any person, place, or thing. It begins with a lowercase letter.
What is a common noun?
200
They are "I, you, he, she, it, we, they" and used to take the place of one or more nouns as the doer of the sentence.
What are subject pronouns?
200
This is used to describe a proper noun. Capitalize each important word in this.
What is a proper adjective?
200
A word or group of words that express an action. It is often the key word in the predicate that tells what the subject does.
What is an action verb?
200
A word that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
300
Names a particular person, place, or thing. Each important word begins with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
300
Refers to the subject of the subject. They are "myself, yourself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves"
What are reflexive pronouns?
300
This follows a linking verb such as is, seems, or looks. When an adjective follows a linking verb, it can describe the subject of the sentence.
What is a predicate adjective?
300
This connects the subject of a sentence with a word or words in the predicate. The most common is "be". Other forms of "be" are the following: "am", "is", "are", "was", and "were". Others are: "become", "feel", "seem", "look", "grow", "taste", "appear", and "smell".
What are linking verbs?
300
A word that relates a noun or pronoun to other words in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
400
Shows ownership by one person or thing.
What is a singular possessive noun?
400
Shows ownership. Some come before the noun. Some stand alone. They are "my, your, his, her, its, our, and their".
What are possessive pronouns?
400
Use these properly before a word that begins with a consonant sound and words that begin with a vowel sound. They are 'a', 'an', and 'the'.
What is an article?
400
This works with the main verb to tell about an action. This always comes before the main verb. They are "am", "is", "are", "was", "were", "has", "have", "had", and "will".
What are helping verbs?
400
A word that joins words or groups of words.
What is a conjunction?
500
Shows ownership by more than one person or thing.
What is a plural possessive noun?
500
The noun or nouns to which the pronoun refers. A pronoun should agree with this in gender and number.
What is an antecedent?
500
They are "this, that, these, those". These adjectives have a special, simple function within the English language: they help indicate a noun and are within close proximity of that noun in a sentence. They are especially helpful when you want to make it clear which noun (which thing) you would like to talk about.
What are demonstrative adjectives?
500
These verbs do not end with "ed" to show past tense. Some show past tense by using a different form of the main verb with "have", "has", or "had".
What is an irregular verb?
500
A word or group of words that expresses strong feeling.
What is an interjection?
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