NAME THOSE
NOUNS
PROXY
PRONOUNS
VIVACIOUS
VERBS
MARVELOUS
MODIFIERS
THE REMAINING
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100
This names specific persons or things and is capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
100
A pronoun that refers to people or things.
What is a personal pronoun?
100
From brawn to brain, these express things you do physically or mentally.
What are action verbs?
100
It's a bird, it's a plane -- it compares more than two nouns or actions.
What is superlative?
100
Watch out! This expresses strong (and sometimes loud) feeling. Wow!
What is an interjection?
200
O say can you see, or hear, or touch it? This refers to objects that use one or more of the five senses.
What is a concrete noun?
200
No, it's not a bug but rather the noun or groups of words to which a pronoun refers.
What is an antecedent?
200
Chain, chain, chain .... this connects the subject with a noun or adjective.
What is a linking verb?
200
These aren't stories in a newspaper but is a special group of adjectives which include the words a, an, the.
What are articles?
200
You don't have to drop to one knee to know this relates a noun or pronoun to some other word.
What is a preposition?
300
Can't touch this! Qualities or feelings that cannot be seen or touched.
What are abstract nouns?
300
You definitely should know that this does not specify a person, place, or thing.
What is an indefinite pronoun?
300
Don't stress out, but these are the three main verb tenses.
What are present, past, and future tenses?
300
Don't never use these in no sentence.
What are double negatives?
300
Conclusion of a prepositional phrase. The end. Fin. Over and out.
What is an object of the preposition?
400
Have you herd? Do you have class? This names a group of people or things.
What is a collective noun?
400
Mirror, mirror on the wall, this refers to a noun or another pronoun that indicates the same person or thing.
What is a reflexive pronoun?
400
No beating around the bush - these action verbs have direct objects.
What are transitive verbs?
400
No protesting - these modifiers of these four words tell about things that are close by or far away.
What are demonstratives this, that, these, and those?
400
Pairs of words that connect words or phrases.
What are correlative conjunctions?
500
Be sure about your answer - it's a noun placed next to another noun to identify it.
What is an appositive?
500
Strong and enthusiastic, this emphasizes a noun or pronoun already named.
What is an intensive pronoun?
500
To whom or for whom, these are the questions that are answered about an action.
What is an indirect object?
500
This marvelous modifier ensues a linking verb while describing the subject.
What is a predicate adjective?
500
F.A.N.B.O.Y.S. unite! An acronym for this part of speech, and the words represented by the acronym.
What is a coordinating conjunction? For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
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