Parts of Speech
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Describes a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
100
What is a word that is pronounced the same as another word with a different meaning. An example is site, sight, and cite. Another example is bear and bare.
What is a homonym?
100
Word used to connect words. Examples are and, but, and or.
What is a conjunction?
100
A sentence that makes a statement in a forceful manner. Usually ends with this symbol (!)
What is an exclamatory sentence?
100
A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another. This is usually achieved by the use of the word like or as.
What is a simile?
200
Tells us what action is being performed. They can express physical or mental actions.
What is a verb?
200
A word that has the opposite meaning of another. An example is bad and good. Another example is cold and hot.
What is an antonym?
200
Words used to express strong feelings or sudden emotion. An example is Oh, I did not expect that. They express some type of emotion such as disgust, joy, excitement or enthusiasm.
What is an interjection?
200
A sentence that asks a question. It ends with a question mark (?)
What is an interrogative sentence?
200
Ascribing a human trait or ability to a concept or a non-human object. It is an example of figurative language
What is personification?
300
They are used either before or after a noun (or a pronoun) to modify is meaning. They help to describe a word.
What is an adjective?
300
A word or phrase that can be substituted for another word or phrase in a particular context. An example is happy and glad.
What is a synonym?
300
A word that can replace a noun. Examples are he, she, we, or them.
What is a pronoun?
300
A sentence that states a fact or an argument and ends with a period (.)
What is a declarative sentence?
300
A group of words that has meaning that does not come from those of the individual words, such as "raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
400
They are used to express when, where, how, for what reason, or to what degree an action is performed. They are mainly used to modify verbs.
What is an adverb?
400
An abbreviation spoken like a word such as NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) or NAAFI (Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes)
What is an acronym?
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The part of a sentence which tells us what the subject does or is.
What is a predicate?
400
A sentence that is a command or a polite request. It ends with an exclamation mark (!) or a period.
What is an imperative sentence?
400
An exaggeration or claim that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
500
They are usually short words that are placed before a noun to show that noun's relationship to something else in the sentence. Here are a few examples (above, after, across, before, for, in, on, off, up, with, within, out, past, over, since, through)
What is a preposition?
500
A comparison that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
500
The part of a sentence that describes the person or thing doing the action.
What is the subject?
500
A common error caused by merging two sentences without suitable punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
500
Words which imitate the sound they describe. Examples are hiss, swish, whoosh, growl, bang, clap.
What is an onomatopoeia?
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