Parts of Speech
Define noun.
What names a person, place, thing, activity, or idea?
What is the definition of a verb?
What is a verb is a word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb.
Define interjection.
What is a word or phrase used as a strong expression of feeling/emotion.
What type of subordinate clause is introduced by a relative pronoun?
What is an adjectival clause?
What are the four verb types?
What is Transitive, Intransitive, Linking, and Helping?
Define adverb.
What modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb?
What type of subordinate clause is introduced by a subordinate conjunction?
What is an adverbial clause?
What are the 4 verb attributes?
What is Person, Place, Voice and Mood?
Define preposition.
What relates a noun or pronoun to another word?
Name the most common subordinating conjuctions. (Hint: mnemonic)
What is when, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, unless, and because?
Name the principal parts of to be.
What is to be, am, are, is, was, were, being, been?
Define adjective.
What modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, qualifying or limiting?
Name the relative pronouns.
What is who, whom, whose, which, that, whoever, whomever, what and whatever?
The 12 verb tenses are made from the 4 verb forms and 3 verb times. Name either the 4 forms or the 3 times.
What is simple, perfect, progressive and perfect progressive?
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What is present, past and future?