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Mystery
100
A group of words that expresses a complete thought and can stand alone.
What is a sentence?
100
Name the part of speech: house, cat, dog, phone, Bible, tree, purse, bottle, coffee, jeans.
What is a noun?
100
The part of a sentence about which something is said.
What is the subject?
100
Find the preposition: "Charles sat on the barrel."
What is "on"
100
Identify the type of pronouns: "who, whom, whose, which, what"
What are interrogative pronouns?
200
A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
200
Name the part of speech: she, it, he, us, that, who, mine, yours, everyone.
What is a pronoun?
200
A word that shows action, links another word to the subject, helps another verb, or merely indicates existence.
What is a verb?
200
Name the adverb: "The water dripped slowly from the faucet."
What is "slowly"
200
Define: A ______ noun names whatever exists as a physical or material substance.
What is a concrete noun?
300
A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or adverb.
What is an adverb?
300
Name the part of speech: Answers the questions, what kind? which one? how many? how much? whose?
What is an adjective?
300
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
300
Name the pronoun: "That painting is interesting."
What is "that"
300
Name the type of verb: "am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been."
What are linking verbs?
400
A word that joins words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
400
Name the part of speech: and, but, or, nor, neither-nor, although.
What is a conjunction?
400
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
400
Name the 3 pronouns: "The cat which you see was given to us."
What is "which, you, us"
400
Define: A verb that does not require a receiver of its action in order to express a complete thought.
What is an intransitive verb?
500
An exclamatory word that is not grammatically related to the other words in a sentence.
What is an interjection?
500
Name the part of speech: Answers the questions where? when? how? how often? to what extent?
What is an adverb?
500
The part of speech that joins clauses of unequal grammatical rank; that is, they join dependent clauses to independent clauses.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
500
Name the pronoun: "Mr. Smith himself did the work."
What is "himself"
500
Name the type of pronoun: "each, either, neither, one, everyone, everybody, no one, nobody, anyone, anybody, someone."
What are indefinite pronouns?
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