A1
What is an antecedent?
a shortened form of a word that often ends with a period
What is an abbreviation?
A sentence that contains multiple main clauses
What is a compound?
A sentence having one or more subordinate clauses linked to a main clause
What is complex?
What is the plural form of the word "goose"?
What are geese?
The part of speech that modifies a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
The part of speech that modifies a verb or adjective
What is an adverb?
A punctuation mark used to separate words or phrases within a series
What is a comma?
The punctuation mark used after the salutation of a business letter
What is a colon?
In the sentence "John kicked the football across the yard," what is the verb?
What is kicked?
The words a, an, and the
What are articles?
The helping verb in a verb phrase
What is an auxiliary (verb)?
A noun that is the name of a thing in general; not a proper noun
What is a common (noun)?
a singular noun that names a group, such as flock, bunch, etc.
What is collective?
Which is the plural of ox?
What are oxen?
A word, such as radar, that is formed by combining the initial letters of a name
What is an acronym?
A grammatical term that refers to the fact that a singular subject requires the use of a singular verb
What is agreement?
A connective word that joins words, phrases, or clauses
What is a conjunction?
One of the two voices of a verb
What is active?
What word describes a word that sounds like the noise it makes?
What is onomatopoeia?
A punctuation mark that is used to indicate possession
What is an apostrophe?
A group of words set off by commas, that give further information about a noun or pronoun
What is an appositive?
An abbreviated version of a word, syllable, or word group by omission of internal letters
What is a contraction?
Punctuation used to enclose explanations within quotes when the explanation is not part of the quote
What are brackets?
Which of these is an adverb?
median
mean
meantime
meanwhile
What is meanwhile?