Books
Who wrote "Animal Farm"?
George Orwell.
What is a verb?
A word that describes an action, a state of being, or an occurrence
What is the singular of fish?
Fish.
What is the adverb in this sentence: "Jeff is extremely talented"?
What is an antecedent?
A word or phrase that a pronoun refers back to.
Who is the totalitarian figure in "Animal Farm"?
Napoleón
What is a pronoun?
A word that replaces a noun or noun phrase in a sentence.
What is the plural of person?
People.
What is the adverb in this sentence: "Actually, I'm not sure"?
Actually.
What are personal pronouns?
What was "The Indian in the Cupboard" about?
At first, Omri is unimpressed with the plastic Indian toy he is given for his birthday. But when he puts it in his old cupboard and turns the key, something extraordinary happens that will change Omri's life forever.
For Little Bear, the brave Iroquois Indian, comes to life...
What is an adjective?
What is an abstract noun?
Something that cannot be perceived by the senses.
Do adverbs always end in -ly?
Usually, they are, but not always.
Give 3 examples of possessive pronouns.
mine, yours, ours, his, hers, theirs, and its.
What was Zlata's Diary about?
It is a record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor’s cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant.
What is a noun?
A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things or to name a particular one of these.
A collective noun denotes a group or collection of people or things.
What is the difference between an adverb and an adjective?
While adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and entire sentences, adjectives can only modify nouns and pronouns.
Are possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives the same?
No.
What is "Animal Farm" about?
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
What is a preposition?
A word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word.
Concrete, abstract, plural, singular, countable, uncountable, collective, proper, common, and compound.
Mention 3 types of adverbs.
Of place, time, manner, degree, frequency, and purpose.
What are 3 types of pronouns?
Personal, relative, possessive, subject, object, demonstrative, indefinite, reflexive, intensive, interrogative, reciprocal, distributive.