Capitalization
I start every sentence and always need a capital letter. What am I?
What is the first word?
I end a sentence that asks a question. What am I?
What is a question mark?
The sentence "The dog run fast" has a mistake. What is the correct verb?
What is runs?
): I am a word that sounds like "there" but means "belonging to someone." What am I?
What is their?
I am a group of words with no verb. Example: "Running down the hill." What am I?
What is a sentence fragment?
The name of my city is Philadelphia and the name of my state is Pennsylvania. Which words need capital letters?
What are Philadelphia and Pennsylvania?
I separate items in a list like apples, oranges, and bananas. What am I?
What is a comma?
I connect a person to the action they do. Example: "She plays soccer." What am I?
What is a verb?
The prefix "un-" means not. If I add it to "happy," what new word do I make?
What is unhappy?
I have one subject and one verb. Example: "The cat sleeps." What am I?
What is a simple sentence?
I come once a week and need a capital letter. Examples include Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. What am I?
What are days of the week?
The word "don't" uses me to show that a letter is missing. What am I?
What is an apostrophe?
In the sentence "Maria lost her pencil," I take the place of Maria's name. What am I?
What is she?
I am made of two words put together: "sun" and "flower." What am I?
What is sunflower?
I join two simple sentences with a word like "and," "but," or "or." What am I?
What is a compound sentence?
This holiday falls in December and needs capital letters for both words: "Christmas Day." What is the rule?
What is that holidays and special days are capitalized?
I come before and after the words someone is saying, like she said, "Let's play outside." What am I?
What are quotation marks?
The sentence "Yesterday I will go to the park" uses the wrong verb tense. What should it be?
What is went?
The suffix "-ful" means full of. If I add it to "care," what word do I make?
What is careful?
This sentence has no punctuation and runs together: "I like pizza and I like tacos and I like ice cream." What is the problem?
What is a run-on sentence?
The title of my favorite book is "charlotte's web." Which words should be capitalized?
What are Charlotte's Web?
In the address 123 Oak Street, Springfield, Ohio 45201, I separate the city from the state. What am I?
What is a comma?
"The quick brown fox," the words quick and brown describe the fox. What are they called? What are adjectives?
What are adjectives?
I am a common grade 4 word that is tricky to spell. It means "because" and sounds like "four." What am I?
What is for?
I can combine two short sentences: "The dog barked. The cat ran." What is one way to combine them?
What is "The dog barked and the cat ran" (or similar compound sentence)?