5th Grade Grammar Jeopardy!

Choose the Verb

100

He set the book on the table.

What is set?

200

The smoke rose over the mountains.

What is rose?

300

Please send this to my brother.

What is send?

400

Identify the main verb and the helping verb in this sentence:

I am going for a walk today.

What is am?

What is going

500

Identify the verb and prepositional phrase in this sentence:

I am lying on the couch today.

What is lying?

What is on the couch?

Misc.

100

Identify and correctly cite the book:                           I am going to read Charlotte's Web

What is:

Charlotte's Web

200

Identify the correlative conjunction pair:             

We will either watch a movie or play a board game.

We will either watch a movie and play a board game.

What is either/or?

300

The correct form of the following sentences:

Every year since I was 5, I (have/will) visited the circus that (travel/travels) from New York.

What is HAVE, TRAVELS?

400

The correct form of the following sentence: Twenty candies (were/was) in the bag, now only one (is/are) left.

What is WERE, IS?

500

Each student in our class (come/comes) from California, but my brother and sister (are/is) from North Carolina.

What is COMES, ARE?

Commas

100

Where should the comma(s) be? We went to the store and we bought some milk.

What is WE WENT TO THE STORE, AND WE BOUGHT SOME MILK?

200

Where should the comma(s) be? Today is March 10 2009

What is MARCH 10, 2009?

300

Where should the comma(s) be? Although I studied all night I wasn't ready for the test.

What is ALTHOUGH I STUDIED ALL NIGHT, I WASN'T READY FOR THE TEST?

400

Where should the comma(s) be? My brother who is six feet tall likes to play basketball.

What is MY BROTHER, WHO IS SIX FEET TALL, LIKES TO PLAY BASKETBALL?

500

Where should the comma(s) be? We bought bananas apples oranges and limes.

What is WE BOUGHT BANANAS, APPLES, ORANGES, AND LIMES?

Definitions

100

Names a person, place, thing, or idea

What is A NOUN?

200

The part of speech that describes an action or indicates a state of being.

What is A VERB?

300

Describes nouns or pronouns.

What is AN ADJECTIVE?

400

Substitutes for nouns or noun phrases

What is A PRONOUN?

500

Modifies verbs and adjectives. Typically ends in -ly

What is AN ADVERB?

Misc

100

The contraction for the words "could + not"

What is COULDN'T?

200

The possesive form of "they" (spelled correctly!)

What is THEIR?

300

The proper adjective in this sentence: I love to eat Chicago style pizza!

What is CHICAGO?

400

The prepositional phrase in this sentence: We saw the squirrel running up a tree.

What is UP A TREE?

500

She "don't know nothing" is an example of a "double" this.

What is A DOUBLE NEGATIVE?