Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
This punctuation mark ends a question.
What is a question mark?
A group of words with a subject and verb that expresses a complete thought.
What is a sentence?
The tense in "I walk to school every day."
What is present tense?
The error in "Your the best" is fixed by using this word.
What is you’re?
The words "quickly," "silently," and "well" are this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
Use this punctuation to join two independent clauses with no conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
"Because I was late" is an example of this type of clause.
What is a dependent (subordinate) clause?
The tense in "She was running when it started to rain."
What is past progressive tense?
The error in "Their going to the movies" is fixed by using this word.
What is they’re?
"And," "but," and "or" belong to this part of speech.
What is a conjunction?
The punctuation inside quotation marks in American English is usually this.
What is a period or a comma?
A sentence that gives a command is this type.
What is an imperative sentence?
The tense in "They will have finished the project by tomorrow."
What is future perfect tense?
The correct pronoun in "Me and him went to the store" is this.
What is He and I?
This part of speech shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
This punctuation shows sudden or strong emotion.
What is an exclamation point?
A sentence made of two or more independent clauses joined correctly.
What is a compound sentence?
The tense in "He has written three essays this week."
What is present perfect tense?
The correct verb in "She don’t like pizza" is this.
What is doesn’t?
Words like "this," "that," "these," and "those" are this type of pronoun.
What are demonstrative pronouns?
These marks set off extra information that isn’t necessary to the sentence.
What are parentheses?
The error in "She likes to swim, she likes to run" is called this.
What is a comma splice?
The tense in "By the time we arrived, the play had already started."
What is past perfect tense?
The correct form in "I could of gone" is this.
What is could have?