Parts of Speech
What part of speech describes a noun?
What is an adjective?
A sentence must contain at least a subject and this.
What is a predicate?
This punctuation mark ends a declarative sentence.
What is a period?
This is the term for when two independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
The past tense of “run”.
What is “ran”?
This part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
This type of sentence makes a statement.
What is a declarative sentence?
This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list.
What is a comma?
The word “they’re” is a contraction for which two words?
What are "they" and "are"?
The future tense of “write”.
What is “will write”?
This part of speech is used to replace a noun.
What is a pronoun?
This type of sentence asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
This punctuation mark indicates a possessive noun.
What is an apostrophe?
The misuse of “its” and “it’s” is an example of this type of error.
What is a homophone error?
The present perfect tense of “go”.
What is “have gone”?
What part of speech shows action or state of being?
What is a verb?
This type of sentence gives a command or makes a request.
What is an imperative sentence?
This punctuation mark is used to indicate a pause longer than a comma but shorter than a period.
What is a semicolon?
Mixing up “affect” and “effect” is an example of confusing what?
What are homophones?
The past continuous tense of “sing”.
What is “was singing”?
This part of speech modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
This type of sentence expresses strong feelings.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
This pair of punctuation marks is used to enclose a direct quotation.
What are quotation marks?
This is the term for a word that sounds like another word but has a different meaning and spelling.
What is a homophone?
The future perfect tense of “finish”.
What is “will have finished”?