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Parts of Speech
Types of Sentences
Subjects and Predicates
Correct Grammar
POT-pourri
100
This is the adverb in the following sentence: Joey ran speedily down the hill trying to catch his bike.
What is speedily?
100
Take the garbage out.
What is imperative?
100
This is the simple subject in the following sentence: My older brother likes to ride dirt bikes.
What is brother?
100
This form of "be" belongs in the blank: She _______ creative and likes to draw.
What is "is"?
100
One of these words: "to, two, too" belongs in the blank. I want to go to the store, _____.
What is too?
200
This is the verb phrase in the following sentence: Chris and Bobby are running through the brush.
What is are running?
200
Where are all the peaches?
What is interrogative?
200
This is the simple predicate in the following sentence: Dexter took his sister to the store to buy some hair things.
What is took?
200
This form of "be" belongs in the blank: They ________ tired of having to wait in line.
What is "are"?
200
Their, There, They're This is _________ favorite place to eat.
What is their?
300
What part of speech is the word "painting" in this sentence? The painting hung on the wall in the hallway.
What is a noun?
300
What a wonderful smell that is!
What is exclamatory?
300
This is the compound subject in the following sentence. Marcy and her dog like to go for walks at the park.
What is Marcy and her dog?
300
This is the adverb form of the adjective "good." For example: She plays the guitar _____________.
What is well?
300
This is the meaning of the idiom "raining cats and dogs".
What is raining hard or pouring?
400
This is the number of adjectives in the following sentence: The hungry, growling bear slashed angrily at the camper's stinky bag of trash.
What is three? (hungry, growling, stinky)
400
I went to the store and bought fresh-made Key Lime Pie.
What is declarative?
400
This is the compound predicate in the following sentence: Meggie and Tawny went for a swim and laid by the pool.
What is went and laid?
400
This is an example of what grammatical error: On the first day.
What is a sentence fragment?
400
This is a type of writing that uses the words like or as. Her hair was golden like the sun.
What is a simile?
500
When these forms of the word "hot" are inserted into the following sentences, they read correctly: 1. This potato is ___________. 2. This potato is ___________ than that potato. 3. This potato is the _____________ in the bag.
What is hot, hotter, hottest? (all answers needed for credit)
500
Both of these types of sentences end in a period.
What is declarative and imperative?
500
This is the complete predicate in the following sentence: Terrence and Barry like to watch football games on Saturdays.
What is like to watch football games on Saturdays.
500
This is an example of this kind of grammatical error: She ran to the store got some milk and went to her house and cooked some mashed potatoes they were tasty.
What is a run-on sentence?
500
This type of writing compares two things, but does not use any comparative words. Example: Jessie is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
What is a metaphor?