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Nouns and Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives and Adverbs
Conjunctions and Interjections
Prepositions
100
Names a specific person or thing
What is a proper noun
100
Three common types of verbs are:
What are action, linking, and helping verbs.
100
A this part of speech often ends in ly.
What is adverb
100
A common acronym used to name coordinating conjunctions
What is FANBOYS?
100
Name a common preposition beginning with the letter A that also expresses time.
What is after?
200
Refers to 2 or more persons, places, objects or ideas.
What is a plural noun
200
a verb that is joined by a helping verb
What is a main verb
200
This part of speech can often be found in two places in a sentence: before a word it describes and after a linking verb
What is an adjective?
200
Sentences that begin with these do not stand alone as complete thoughts. This often results in a sentence fragment.
What are dependent words?
200
This type of phrase connects prepositions with what another part of speech.
What is a Prepositional Phrase?
300
True or false, words can be nouns or verbs in a sentence depending on how they are used in a sentence.
What is true: I use Google for research (noun). I sometimes google a topic to find out more about it. (verb)
300
To find the subject in a sentence, the first thing you should do is?
What is locate the verb and ask who or what is doing the action.
300
The words a, an, and the are adjectives and are also known as
What is an article?
300
Sentences using FANBOYS are called what type of sentence?
What is a compound sentence?
300
Prepositional phrases often appear between these in a sentence.
What are subjects and verbs?
400
These words are examples of what type of pronoun: Either, each, everyone, nothing, both, several, all, any, most, none.
What are indefinite pronouns.
400
This type of phrase begins with the word "to." Name the phrase and what part of speech it never is in a sentence?
What is an 1) infinitive phrase and it is never 2) the verb of a sentence.
400
When comparing two things, these two letters are added to an adjective or adverb
What are the letters er -- My brother is taller than my sister.
400
When using a coordinating conjunction, this type of punctuation is needed to join two complete thoughts
What is a comma?
400
A prepositional phrase will never be
What is the subject of a sentence?
500
The word whom is an example of what type of pronoun?
What is an object pronoun.
500
Words classified as this part of speech sometimes appear between the main verb and the helping verb, but are not part of the verb.
What is an adverb? (words such as not, always, just, never) Example: I cannot be late for Prof.Pierson's grammar class.
500
An adjective that means "healthy"
What is well?
500
Starting a sentence using a dependent word sometimes creates
What is a sentence fragment?
500
The subject of this sentence is: Leaves from our neighbor's tree covered our lawn.
What is leaves?