Parts of Speech I
The underlined word represents this part of speech:
Today is Wednesday.
What is a noun?
This sentence's underlined word represents this part of speech:
The piney aroma of the holiday tree filled the room.
What is an adjective?
This sentence's error would be labeled using this term:
Today is Wednesday, tomorrow is Thursday.
What is a comma splice?
This is another word for danger.
What is peril?
The sentences's underlined word represents this type of noun:
Today is Wednesday.
What is a proper noun?
The sentence's underlined word represents this part of speech:
She is a hot shot grammarian.What is a pronoun?
The bolded punctuation mark in this sentence is referred to in this manner; it links two closely related sentences together.
What is a semicolon?
This word describes an object from an earlier time.
What is a relic?
The sentence's underlined word represents this part of speech:
Why is grammar so fascinating?
What is a verb?
The sentence's underlined word represents this part of speech:
Give it to me.
What is a pronoun?
This letter should be capitalized:
We are going to the Grand Cayman islands.
What is the letter "i"?
This word refers to the heart or core of something--it's "soul."
The sentence's underlined word represents this part of speech:
Aiden quickly raised his hand.
What is an adverb?
This word is the grammatical term for the underlined word's relationship to the pronoun "it."
When Cam threw the ball, it bounced.
What is a pronoun antecedent?
The punctuation mark featured in the bolded word is labeled in this manner:
The students' growing excitement was hard to contain.
What is a possessive apostrophe?
This word refers to someone whose behavior is not friendly. S/he is cool or distant.
Grammarians refer to this sentence's underlined words using this label: We are thinking of an answer.
What is a verb phrase?
The sentence's underlined portion is referred to as this type of clause:
Because we guessed correctly, we won.What is an dependent or subordinate clause?
The series of dots are referred to in this manner:
To be continued...
What is an ellipsis?
This word describes someone who uses exaggerated flattery
What is fawning?