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Verbs
Singular & Plural Nouns
Parts of a Sentence
Root Words
Formal, Informal, and Popular English
100
This is the main verb in the sentence: "Jennifer might have become famous."
What is "become"?
100
Words that end in -s, -x, -z, -ch, and -sh are made plural by adding this to the end.
What is "es"?
100
The words that identify what the sentence is about are called this.
What is the "subject"?
100
Most root words come from these two languages.
What is Latin and Greek?
100
This type of speech is highly expressive and colorful and should not be used when writing
What is Popular English? (slang)
200
Sometimes a main verb is combined with one or more of these to help make its meaning clear.
What is a helping or auxillary verb?
200
Nouns that change their overall spelling when pluralized are called this.
What is "irregular"?
200
These are the words that tell what the subject does.
What is the "verb"?
200
This is the best source of information about word families.
What is a dictionary?
200
These are specialized words that make formal writing too wordy or convoluted
What is jargon?
300
Verbs are words that tell this.
What is what something does or is?
300
The plural form of crisis is this.
What is "crises"?
300
This is a group of words that does not make sense by itself.
What is a sentence fragment?
300
The common root in the words: transcribe, describe, inscription, subcribe
What is "scribe"? (to write)
300
Sentences are shorter and rules are relaxed somewhat.
What is Informal English?
400
The helping verb in this sentence: "The coach will arrive before four o'clock."
What is "will"?
400
The plural form of son-in-law.
What is "sons-in-law"?
400
The simple subject in this sentence: "A dozen bananas cost twelve dollars in the summer of 1897."
What is bananas?
400
This is the meaning of the root "micro" in such words as microscope, microwave, microphone, microbe
What is small?
400
Many of the words we use everyday and can find in the dictionary began life as this.
What is slang?
500
The helping verb in the sentence: "Has the doctor examined the teenager with her arm in a sling?"
What is "has"?
500
This is the general rule for pluralizing words that end in "f".
What is change the "f" to "v" and add "-es"?
500
The simple predicate (verb) in the sentence: "The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is one of the most important events in Canadian history."
What is "is"?
500
This is the meaning of "chronos" in words such as chronic, chronological, synchronize.
What is time?
500
This uses a serious tone and appears in textbooks, academic or technical work, and in most university essays.
What is formal?