Parts of Speech
Define "adjective"
Describes a noun
Name the 3 rules of capitalization
Pronoun "I"
Start of sentence
Names & titles
Pick the correct verb to go in the blank:
The puppy ______ in the backyard.
play or plays?
plays
What, if anything, is wrong with this sentence?
"He grabbed his bag and runs out the door."
He grabbed his bad and RAN out the door.
Define "interjection"
Word or short phrase, standing on its own, that shows strong feeling or emotion
What needs to be capitalized?
becky walked her dog, biscuit, to the met museum.
Becky walked her dog, Biscuit, to the Met Museum.
Which of the following is grammatically incorrect?
She is eating cake.
She was eating cake.
She were eating cake.
She has been eating cake.
She will have been eating cake.
She were eating cake.
Is this sentences correct?
The baker measures the flour and pours it in a bowl.
YES
English belongs to which language family:
(a) Romance
(b) Germanic
(c) Semitic
(d) Slavic
(b) Germanic
Name all articles in the English language
the, a, an
Fix the capitalization of the word king, if needed:
"My father was King Henry," said the king.
(a) both kings should be capitalized
(b) neither king should be capitalized
(c) switch: "king Henry... the King"
(d) Correct as is
(d) Correct as is
Fill in the blanks:
A subject and its verb must agree in _______ and ______.
person and number
Which sentence correctly shows one past event (leaving the house) happening before another (start to rain)?
(a) By the time it started raining, we already left the house.
(b) By the time it started raining, we had already left the house.
(c) By the time it started raining, we have already left the house.
(d) By the time it started raining, we leave the house.
(b) By the time it started raining, we had already left the house.
Provide the infinitive form of the verb "stand"
"to stand"
Name 7 different prepositions
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Which is NOT capitalized?
Autumn
Easter
October
Tuesday
Fill in the blank with an appropriate verb:
"Everybody on the team ___ excited for the championship game."
is
was
has been
How many tenses are there in the English language?
Either answer is correct:
3 (3 tenses each with four aspects)
OR
12 (3 time frames x 4 aspects
In terms of titles, which gets italicized and which goes in quotation marks?
Books
Chapters
Movies
Plays
Poems
Songs
Italicize: books, bovies, plays
Quotation marks: chapters, poems, songs
Parse (identify each word's part of speech) this sentence:
The dog eagerly ate two cupcakes with sprinkles, though later she felt sick.
The article
dog noun
eagerly adverb
ate verb
two adjective
cupcakes noun
with conjunction
sprinkles noun
though conjunction
later adverb
she pronoun
felt verb
sick adjective
The following is the title of a book. Which words should be capitalized?
the decline and fall of the roman empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Fill in the blank: IS or ARE?
The piles of shredded cheese lying on the table ____ not mine.
are
Fill in the blank:
"My grandmother always said that honesty ___ the best policy."
IS
Explain the difference between regular and irregular verbs.
Regular verbs: all tenses/forms can be built from just the base-form.
Irregular verbs: tenses/forms are built from one of three distinct Principal Parts.