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This is the definition of an adjective.
What is a word that modifies (or describes) a noun or pronoun?
100
The maladroit boxer fell down repeatedly.
What is "maladroit"?
100
You are very pretty!
What is "very"?
100
Find the modifier mistakes in the following sentence: Aunt Annie's alligator ate Alvin's angrily ape.
What is angrily should be just "angry"?
100
How do I make the adverb "quickly" comparative?
What is "more quickly"?
200
This is the definition of an adverb.
What is a word that modifies (or describes) an adjective, verb, or another adverb? (must have all three)
200
You should be the bigger person in arguments with friends.
What is "bigger"?
200
Your ideas are continually surprising.
What is "continually"?
200
Find the modifier mistakes in the following sentence: Between Anto and I, and am definitely the fastest.
What is fastest ought to be "faster"?
200
What part of speech is the word "blue"?
It depends! Correct answers are either, "It is a noun or an adjective," or "I don't know if I can't see how it is used in a sentence."
300
This is the definition of a noun.
What is any person, place, thing, or idea?
300
Find all of the adjectives in this sentence: The argumentative squirrel ran thoughtlessly across the trembling branch as he sought the safety of his warm, dry home.
What is "argumentative," "trembling," "warm," and "dry"?
300
Don't touch that burning tree!
What is "not"?
300
Find the modifier mistakes in the following sentence: The last book I read was also the best book that I have ever read.
What is Nothing?
300
My friend and I are disagreeing with each other. He thinks he's smartest, but I think I am. How can we figure which one of the two of us is smartest?
What is "You can't! You need three people (at least) for someone to be 'smartest'. Otherwise one of you is just 'smarter'."
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This is the definition of a pronoun.
What is a word that takes the place of a noun?
400
Find all of the adjectives in the following sentence: Though no one thought to tell Robertson anything about his problems, he still managed a blunder that would be heard about for years to come.
What is "none"?
400
Find all of the adverbs in the following sentence: Mildred's best hope lay with the protective soldiers she had hired to defend her peaceful home.
What is "none"?
400
Find the modifier mistakes in the following sentence: There are less people here today than there were here yesterday.
What is less should be "fewer"?
400
Spell the superlative form of "lucky."
What is "luckiest"?
500
This is the definition of the term "part of speech."
What is the category a word fits in, based on how it is used?
500
Find the adjectives in the following sentence: In these uncertain times, the only real certainty is that no problems can be solved without devoted consideration, which is noble and just.
What is "these," "uncertain," "only," "real," "no," "devoted," "noble," and "just"?
500
Find all of the adverbs in the following sentence: Never have more people given less time that during the meeting yesterday, when they walked out without waiting for their lonely children.
What is "never" and "yesterday"?
500
Find the modifier mistakes in the following sentence: While out for a walk through the verdant park yesterday, I saw the fastest dog in the world; he ran through gleefully barking like a maniac, but I knew that in his deepest heart, he was actually very sad.
What is none?
500
List all four articles.
What are a, an, the, and the?