This type of noun is always CAPITALIZED and names a specific person, place or thing. Like Ledford High School...
What is a "Proper Noun"?
100
This part of speech describes a noun...like "winning" in the phrase "winning football team"
What is an "adjective"?
100
This was Hitler's first choice of career...too bad he didn't make something of it :(
What is "to be an artist"?
100
This term means "to speed up"!
What is "accelerate"?
100
This terms means "thristy".
What is "parched"?
200
This type of verb connects the subject of the sentence to what the subject "is" or "was" :)
What is a "linking verb"?
200
This part of speech describes a verb...such as "quietly" in the sentence Mrs. Maxcy quietly taught the class. :)
What is an "adverb"?
200
This was the most notorious death camp...during it's years of operation, 140,000 trains came through its gates to deposit "prisoners".
What is "Auschwitz"?
200
This term means "necessary" or "essential".
What is "vital"?
200
This term means "to formally approve".
What is "ratify"?
300
This is another term for an incomplete sentence.
What is a "sentence fragment"?
300
This part of speech gives more information in the sentence...such as "under the dresser" in the sentence I found my missing shoes under the dresser.
What is a "prepositional phrase"?
300
This happened as Allied Forces got closer to the camps to liberate them. This was the forced movement of prisoners from camps to various undisclosed locations. Thousands of people died along the way.
What are "death marches"?
300
This terms means "royal" or "kinglike".
What is "regal"?
300
This term means "to thrash about ineffectively"...it's also a fish :)
What is "flounder"?
400
This type of noun you can touch!
What is a "concrete noun"?
400
This part of speech "hooks up words and phrases and clauses"....such as "and", "but", "or"....
What is a "conjunction"?
400
This term means "to have negative feelings and thoughts against another group of people".
What is "prejudice"?
400
This term means "oppressed".
What is "downtrodden"?
400
This term means "horrible" or "ghastly".
What is "gruesome"?
500
This part of speech shows emotion and is separated from the rest of a sentence by an exclamation point or a comma (if the feeling is not as strong).
What is an "interjection"?
500
This part of speech REPLACES a noun in a sentence. For example, "he" in the following sentence: Mr. Brown is observing right now; he wants to see what you're learning!
What is a "pronoun"?
500
This term means "to act against a group of people based on feelings and thoughts of prejudice".