There is a part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun.
100
These replace a noun or pronoun.
What is a pronoun?
100
There is a part of speech that carries the idea of being or action in the sentence.
What is the verb?
100
Name the part of speech that describes or modifies another person or thing in the sentence.
What is an adjective?
100
There is a part of speech that is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence.
What is a conjunction?
200
There is a part of speech that names a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
200
There is a kind of pronoun that changes its form to indicate a person number gender or case.
What is a personal pronoun?
200
A kind of verb connects a subject and its complement
What is a linking verb?
200
Adjectives can express degrees of modification. Name the three degrees in order.
What are positive, comparitive, and superlative?
200
Subordinate (or Dependent) Clause and establishes the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the sentence. It also turns the clause into something that depends on the rest of the sentence for its meaning.
Name five common ones.
What are after, since, although, until, while?
300
There is a kind of noun that names everything else, things that usually are not capitalized.
What is a common noun?
300
Posessive pronouns show ownership. Name some common ones.
What are yours, his, mine, hers, its, ours?
300
There are three tenses of verbs. They are past, present, and future. State the past, present, and future tenses of run.
What is ran, run or is running, and will run?
300
For a normal comparitive adjective you add -er to the positive form. For a normal superlative you add -est to the positive form. Change rich into its comparitive and superlative forms.
What is richer and richest?
300
The simple, little conjunctions are called coordinating conjuctions. They all have four or less letters. Name some of them.
What are and, but, yet, nor, or, for, and so ?
400
There are more than one kind of noun. Name some.
What are proper, common, collective, plural, and possesive nouns.
400
A certain kind of pronoun points to and identifies a noun or a pronoun. Here are some examples; this, that, these, and those.
What is a demonstrative pronoun?
400
State the verb in the following sentence. The apple fell from the tree.
What is fell?
400
Some words have irregular comparitive and superlative form. Give them for bad.
What is worse and worst.
400
Which part of speech are words or phrases used to exclaim or protest or command. They sometimes stand by themselves, but they are often contained within larger structures.
What is an interjection?
500
There is a difference between concrete and abstract nouns.
What if you can use your senses to describe a concrete noun? Abstract nouns are things that your senses can't sense, but they are more like ideas?
500
Pronouns are easy to use in a sentence. Give me a sentence with a pronoun.
What is; She ran after the bus?
500
What is the linking verb in this answer?
What is is?
500
Adjectives appear in two places. The first is more common. Adjectives nearly always appear immediately before the noun or noun phrase that they modify. Which is the second place.
What is in a string of adjectives.
500
Interjections can be mild or more forceful. Write two sentences; one with a mild interjection and one with a forceful interjection.
What is a sentence with a mild interjection? Wait, I still don't know what we are doing. What is a forceful interjection? Help! I'm stuck!