Parts of Speech
The part of speech that ends with -ly and describes how.
What is an adverb?
The type of sentence shown below: "Get out your World of Language textbooks."
What is an imperative sentence?
Writing that is trying to convince or persuade someone
What is persuasive writing?
This set of words (large, small) is known as these.
What are antonyms?
This is the type of punctuation that separates a city from a state.
What is a comma?
The part of speech that is missing in the following sentence: The brave girl ________________ quickly down the stairs.
What is the verb?
The compound subject in the following sentence: The gray rabbit and the yellow duck swam together in the pond.
What is the rabbit and duck?
Writing that tells about science or history
What is scientific or historical texts?
The resource book that contains synonyms and antonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
The type of punctuation that would be found at the end of an interrogative sentence.
What is a question mark?
The adjective in the following sentence: I ate a greasy piece of pizza for lunch.
What is greasy?
The best way to combine the two sentences below: Jane likes to ride bicycles. Jane likes to swim.
What is 'Jane likes to ride bicycles and swim'. (Since the sentences begin the same, just use the subject once.)
Writing that informs
What is informational writing?
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings
What are homonyms/homophones?
This is what should be done to book titles.
What is underline them? (Italics if it is typed)
The pronoun that replaces 'desk' in the following sentence: The desk was so full of books that it fell over.
What is 'it'?
A sentence that is two simple sentences combined together with a conjuction.
What is a compound sentence?
The type of writing that would use chronological order.
What is sequence writing?
The words in ( ) in the following passage are this: The (cute) girl wore her (adorable) dress on Easter.
What are synonyms?
This is the type of punctuation mark that would be found at the end of an imperative or declarative sentence
What is a period?
The word used incorrectly in the following sentence: The girl ran swift down the hall.
What is swift? (It should be swiftly...it's an adverb)
The subject and predicate in the following sentence: Because it was raining, I wore my polka-dot rainboots.
What is 'I, wore'? (I is the subject and wore is the predicate. 'Because it was raining' is a clause added to the beginning of the sentence...it does not contain the subject or predicate)
The type of writing that gives us steps
What is technical texts?
The number of syllables in the word 'jeopardy'.
What is 3?
Titles of poems need this type of puntuation mark.
What is quotation marks?