Grammar and Spelling
What is the past-tense form of the verb "run"?
What is ran?
Find the proper noun in this sentence: "We are going to visit Florida in July."
What are Florida and July?
What type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as" (e.g., "as brave as a lion")?
What is a simile?
What is the prefix in the word "unhappy"?
What is un-?
What is the 3rd planet from the sun?
Earth
Correctly spell the plural form of the word "city".
What is cities?
Is the word "happily" a noun, a verb, or an adverb?
What is an adverb?
When an author gives human qualities to non-human things, what is it called?
What is personification?
Which suffix means "full of"? (For example, adding it to "care")
What is -ful?
Who was the first man to step on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Identify the two prepositions in this sentence: "The cat slept under the warm blanket on the bed."
What are under and on?
Find the action verb in this sentence: "The students answered every question perfectly."
What is answered?
An extreme exaggeration, such as "I have a million things to do," is called what?
What is a hyperbole?
What is the antonym of the word "gigantic"?
What is tiny (or small)?
Which ocean is off the coast of California?
The Pacific Ocean
Identify the two adjectives in this sentence: "The brave knight rode a white horse."
What are brave and white?
What is a pronoun? Give one example.
A word used in place of a noun (e.g., he, she, it, they).
What is the main message or life lesson of a story called?
What is the theme?
Explain the meaning of the idiom "piece of cake".
What does it mean that something is very easy?
What is the only state in the U.S. that is made up entirely of islands?
Hawaii
What are words that have the same or almost the same meaning called?
What are synonyms?
Identify the subject of this sentence: "The fluffy dog chased the red ball."
What is the fluffy dog?
What is a reference book that provides the synonyms and antonyms of words?
What is a thesaurus?
What does the root word "graph" mean in the words "autograph" and "photograph"?
What is to write or draw?
Identify the subject in this sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
The fox