Parts of Speech
Capitalization + Punctuation
Dialogue
Run-Ons
Fragments
100
What is a noun?
What is a person, place, or thing.
100
What punctuation is missing from the sentence below: Ms. Raasch cheered on the Humboldt Hawks at Friday night's basketball game
What is a period.
100
How do you punctuate dialogue?
What is with quotation marks
100
What is a run-on sentence?
What is a sentence that is confusing because it has more than one idea.
100
What is a sentence fragment?
A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence that is missing a subject or a verb (or both).
200
Indentify the subject (noun) in the sentence below: Ginny rode the school bus.
What is Ginny
200
Rewrite the following sentence using commas where appropiate: Justin went to Cub and bought Frosted Flakes chicken-flavored Ramen Noodles hot chocolate and Mountain Dew.
What is Justin went to Cub and bought Frosted Flakes, chicken flavored Ramen Noodles, hot chocolate, and Mountain Dew.
200
What information is found in a speaker tag?
What is the speaker and how the speaker is speaking (ex. Shaila yelled)
200
Which sentence below is an example of a run-on sentence? 1) He ran as fast as he could to school. 2) After she came home from her neighbors house she turned on the tv to watch 'Maury' but then she forgot that she needed to do laundry so she turned off the tv and went to the basement to do laundry and then she also made dinner she made tacos.
What is sentence #2
200
Which sentence is an example of a sentence fragment? 1) is the boss. 2) My reading log is due soon!
What is sentence #1 (missing a subject)
300
Indentify the verb in the sentence below: Serena sang a solo in her high school's choir concert.
What is sang
300
Fix the capitalization in the sentence below: friday, february 3rd is an early-release school day.
What is Friday, February 3rd is an early-release school day.
300
Identify the dialogue and the speaker tag in the following sentence: First semester ends January 26th, Ms. Raasch stressed.
What is "first semester ends January 26th" = dialogue, what is Ms. Raasch stressed = speaker tag.
300
Correct the run-on below: The summer olympics are coming up this summer they will be in London.
What is (multiple options) The summer olympics are coming up this summer. They will be in London.
300
Is the sentence below missing a subject or a verb? Then the Humboldt Hawks.
What is a verb
400
Indentify the adjective in the sentence below: The glowing moon faded from my sight.
What is glowing
400
When should we capitalize letters? (name two)
What is 1) At the beginning of a new sentence 2) When we use proper nouns 3) Acronyms
400
Punctuate the dialogue below correctly: Did you hear there is a new episode of 'Celebrity Wife Swap' featuring Flava Flav's wife? asked Kenny
What is "Did you hear there is a new episode of 'Celebrity Wife Swap' featuring Flava Flav's wife?" asked Kenny.
400
Correct the run-on sentence below: In 1996 the Packers won the Superbowl in 1997 the Packers lost the Superbowl.
What is In 1996 the Packers won the Superbowl, but in 1997 the Packers lost the Superbowl.
400
Correct the sentence below: are going to win the Superbowl.
What is The Packers are going to win the Superbowl.
500
What is the adverb in the sentence below: Beyonce and Jay Z sweetly named their daughter Blue Ivy.
What is sweetly
500
Correct the punctuation and capitalization errors in the sentence below: ninth graders at humboldt high school in st. Paul will take the writing test in april they need to pass the test to graduate.
What is Ninth graders at Humboldt High School in St. Paul will take the writing test in April. They need to pass the test to graduate.
500
How does dialogue improve your writing?
What is dialogue helps bring your writing/story to life and makes your writing more realistic!
500
How can you correct run-on sentences? (List 3 ways)
What is 1) With a period to begin a new sentence 2) With a comma and conjunction 3) With a semi-colon
500
How can you correct a sentence fragment?
What is add a subject and/or a verb to the sentence.
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