Parts of Speech
What are the 2 Principal Elements of a sentence?
What are the Subject and Predicate?
What is a verbal?
What is: a word that looks like a verb, but is not performing an action (or the like)
What is: The thesis?
What do you call a 3 line poem that follows the syllable pattern 5-7-5?
What is a Haiku?
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Ernie is my cat.
What questions does an Adverb answer?
What is: How? When? Where? and Why?
What are the 3 types of Verbal?
What are: Participle, Gerund, and Infinitive?
Which character was able to drive steel with a hammer in each hand?
Who is John Henry?
Coming from Latin and Greek Roots, this word directly translated means "same name":
What is: Homonym?
The dangerous ducks swim in the pond.
What are the 3 main Types of Sentence?
What are: Simple, Compound, and Complex?
A Verbal Participle can only function as a...
What is an Adjective?
If you wanted to argue against or attack a point, you might write an essay that is considered a...
What is a Refutation?
What was the name of the Iconic "Baseball" video Ms. Little showed to demonstrate the importance of pronouns?
What is "Who's on First"?
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Buddy and Ernie are not friends, but they are friendly.
What are the 2 types of Subordinate Clause?
What are Adverbial and Adjectival?
A Verbal Gerund can only function as a...
What is a Noun?
What was the name of the terrible teacher that Charles Dickens wrote about in one of our sample readings?
Who is Wackford Squeers?
This religious-sounding word is a synonym for a "Works Cited" page:
What is a bibliography?
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My carnivorous duck is gnawing on my arm because he has no manners.
Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Pronouns, Conjunctions, Interjections!
What function can an Infinitive perform that other verbals cannot?
What is an Adverb?
(he pretended he was attacked and built up a huge "bodyguard")
Who is Pisistratus?
What were the 4 Vocab words used in your Creative Writing Stories?
What are: Impetuous, Terse, Melancholy, and Astute?
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