A word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, or abstract idea.
What is a noun?
100
The part of speech which asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being. All predicates have this.
What is a verb?
100
This can replace a noun or another pronoun.
What is a pronoun?
100
This links phrases, words, and clauses.
What is a conjunction?
100
This links nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
200
You can always write this with a capital letter, since the noun represents the name of a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
200
A verb that supports the main verb of a sentence.
What is a helping verb?
200
Identify the pronouns in the following sentence:
The captain herself gave us permission.
What are herself and us?
200
This type of conjunction is used to join individual words, phrases, and independent clauses.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
200
Name the prepositions in the following sentence:
Beyond the city limits there is no rule against fireworks.
What are beyond and against?
300
A noun naming a group of things, animals, or persons such as flock, jury, committee or class.
What is a collective noun?
300
Name the verb in the following sentence:
The author tells of his childhood in a Wyoming ranch.
What is tells?
300
This modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. This describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
This type of conjunction always appears in pairs -- you use them to link equivalent sentence elements.
What is a correlative conjunction?
300
List the objects of the prepositions in the following sentence:
According to the morning paper, there will be no school on Friday.
What are paper and Friday?
400
A noun which names anything which you can not perceive through your five physical senses, and is the opposite of a concrete noun such as liberty, love, or justice.
What is an abstract noun?
400
Identify the helping verb in this sentence:
The fog was now rapidly lifting from the field.
What is was?
400
This describes a verb. It can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause.
What is an adverb?
400
This type of conjunction introduces a dependent clause and indicates the nature of the relationship among the independent clause(s) and the dependent clause(s). It usually tells "when" something happens.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
400
Name the prepositions in the following sentence:
For many years, there have been bad feelings between the towns.
What are for and between?
500
A noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count such as oxygen, furniture, or gravel.
What is a non-countable (or mass) noun?
500
Identify the helping verbs in the following sentence:
When will the next moon probe be launched?
What are will and be?
500
Name the adverbs in the following sentence:
There goes Mr. Garrison now.
What there and now?
500
Name the type of conjunction being used in the following sentence:
We will go to Mexico and Peru.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
500
Name the objects of prepositions in the following sentence:
The truck was stopped at the border and searched for arms.