Parts of Speech
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
A sentence that has both an independent and a dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
Is this sentence grammatically correct: Today, this city is the capital of an island nation.
What is yes?
I will __________any job offers __________ the one from Taco Bell.
What commonly confused pair of words fits correctly in this sentence?
What is accept and except?
What type of figurative language is used in this sentence: Her laughter was a symphony that filled the room with warmth and joy.
What is a metaphor?
How many nouns are in this sentence: The cat chased the ball into the garden, startling the birds perched on the fence.
What is 5: cat, ball, garden, birds, fence?
A clause that begins with a subordinating conjunction or a relative pronoun.
What is a dependent clause?
What is missing in this sentence: I want to go home, Sally said with tears in her eyes.
What are quotation marks?
Make sure ________ ready for _______ presentation tomorrow.
What common homophone pair fits in this sentence correctly?
What is you're and your?
What kind of writing tells a story?
What is narrative?
What are the prepositions in this sentence: She walked through the park, across the bridge, and into the bustling city center.
What are through, across, and into?
What type of sentence is this: I walked down the stairs to my third-period class and was marked tardy.
What is a simple sentence?
Correct this sentence: Most buildings are heated by water; that is piped from nearby hot springs.
What is Most buildings are heated by water that is piped from nearly hot springs. Semicolons combine two independent clauses.
____________ excited to visit __________ favorite vacation spot; it's right over __________.
What homophone trio fits correctly into this sentence?
What is they're, their, and there?
Figurative language that is a huge exaggeration used for effect.
What is hyperbole?
Name the conjunctions in the mnemonic FANBOYS.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
Name the four different types of sentences.
What are simple, compound, complex, and compound complex?
What is missing from this sentence: As a young man, Clemens wrote for the Hannibal Journal, a magazine owned by his older brother.
What are italics?
She ate __________ cookies today because she wanted to consume __________ sugar.
What commonly confused pair of words fits correctly in this sentence?
What is fewer and less?
What does the mnemonic RACES stand for?
What is restate, answer, cite evidence, explain, and summarize?
Name the 8 parts of speech.
What are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, pronouns, and prepositions?
Answers may vary.
What is missing in this sentence: Its a beautiful day to go for a hike in the mountains.
What is an apostrophe?
List 10 pairs of homophones spelled correctly.
Answers may vary.
List the figurative language identified in the mnemonic SHAMPOO.
What is simile, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, and oxymoron?