Nouns or Pronouns
Adjectives/Adverbs
Verbs
Interjections or Conjunctions
Prepositions
100
What does a noun describe?
person, place, thing, or idea
100
What is an adjective?
a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun
100
What does a verb do?
expresses action, a condition, or a state of being
100
What does an interjection do?
express feeling or emotion
100
What does a preposition do?
a preposition precedes a noun or a pronoun to show the nouns' or pronoun's relationship to another word in the sentence
200
What are the different kinds of nouns?
Concrete; Uncle Joe, village, vegetable Abstract; belief, beauty, disappointment Common; city, ocean, people Proper; Houston, Quebec, Atlantic Ocean Collective; audience, class, club Compound; newspaper, New Year's Day, son-in-law
200
What is an adverb?
a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
200
What are auxiliary verbs?
helping verbs
200
What punctuation do you use with an interjection expressing mild emotion?
a comma
200
What is the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition?
object of the preposition
300
What is the word that the pronoun takes the place of?
the antecedent
300
Articles are always adjectives, what are the articles?
a, an, and the
300
What is a verb phrase?
helping verb + main verb = verb phrase
300
What are correlative conjunctions?
conjunctions that are used in pairs to connect sentence parts both... and either... or neither... nor whether... or not only...but also
300
What does a prepositional phrase start and end with?
starts with a preposition and ends with an object of the preposition
400
What type of pronouns are these: my, our, your, mine, ours, yours?
possessive pronouns
400
What 4 questions do adjectives answer?
Which one? What kind? How many? How much?
400
What is the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb?
a transitive verb has a direct object and an intransitive verb does not
400
What is the format for a conjunctive adverb if it occurs in the middle of a sentence?
sentence; conjunctive adverb, sentence
400
What is a compound preposition?
a preposition made up of two or more words in favor of in spite of as well as
500
What is the difference between a plural and a possessive noun?
plural nouns show more than one of soemthing, but possessive nouns show ownership
500
What 4 questions does an adverb answer?
Where? When? How? (could also be in what manner) To what extent?
500
What are the four principle parts of a verb?
present, present participle, past, past participle
500
What is the acronym used for coordinating conjunctions? And what does it stand for?
FANBOYS, it stands for for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
500
What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence? The umpire stands behind the catcher.
behind the catcher
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