Parts of Speech
What part of speech expresses strong emotion, such as Wow! or Oh no!?
What is an interjection?
Which verb tense shows something that already happened?
What is past tense?
Fill in the blank: You can have ___ pizza ___ pasta for dinner.
What is either/or?
What does the word geography mean if geo means earth?
What is the study of the Earth?
A comparison using like or as is called what?
What is a simile?
Which part of speech joins words or groups of words together?
What is a conjunction?
Which verb tense shows something happening right now?
What is present tense?
What conjunction pair means “one or the other”?
What is either/or?
What are words called what they have opposite meanings, like disrespect and honor?
What are antonyms?
In the sentence “The classroom was a zoo,” what does the author mean? Is this a simile or metaphor?
What is the classroom was noisy or chaotic?
What is Metaphor?
What part of speech shows a relationship between a noun and another word, such as under or between?
What is a preposition?
Fix the sentence: “She was running and falls down.”
What is “She was running and fell down.”?
What conjunction pair means “not one and not the other”?
What is neither/nor?
What is a suffix and prefix, and where are they found in words?
What is a word part added to the beginning and added to the end of a word to change its meaning?
What type of figurative language gives human traits to animals or objects?
What is personification?
What are adjectives, and what do they describe?
What are words that describe nouns or pronouns?
What is wrong with this sentence: “Yesterday, I walk to school and saw my friend.”
What is a shift in verb tense? or Wrong verb tense?
What is missing in this sentence:
It is raining and very cold outside so it must be slippery.
comma between outside and so
What is a root, and why is it important? Where do root words originate from?
What is the base part of a word that gives it meaning? Greek and Latin.
What type of figurative language has a meaning different from the literal words, like “raining cats and dogs”?
What is an idiom?
In the sentence “She quickly and quietly finished her test,” which words are adverbs, and what do they describe?
What are quickly and quietly, and they describe how she finished?
What is wrong with this sentence?
“By the time the bell rang, we are lining up and walked to lunch.”
What is an inappropriate shift in verb tense?
Corrected Answer:
“By the time the bell rang, we were lining up and walked to lunch.”?
What are coordinating conjunction? And what is the acronym we learned to remember them?
Connect independent clauses with a comma and on of the FANBOYS.
What is/are the roots or base, prefixes, and suffixes in the following words:
1. Psychology
2. Autograph
3. Preview
1. Psycho - Root
logy - suffix
2. Auto - root
graph - root
3. Pre - prefix
view - base word
What figurative language is being used in this sentence: “My legs were on fire after the run.”
What is hyperbole?