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Verbs
Nouns and Pronouns
Modifiers
Verbals
Wild Card
100
This kind of verb helps to complete th meaning of the main verb.
What is a helping verb?
100
This noun names a particular person, place, or thing and is always capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
100
These are what adverbs modify.
What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?
100
This kind of verbal only acts as a noun.
What is a gerund?
100
These two clauses together form a complex sentence.
What are an independent clause and a dependent clause?
200
These are all of the "to be" verbs.
What are "am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been?"
200
This noun names things you cannot touch, like ideas, feelings, or qualities.
What is an abstract noun?
200
This kind of verbal always starts with the word "to."
What is an infinitive?
200
These are the four sentence types.
What are declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences?
300
This is the verb tense of "had jumped."
What is the past perfect tense?
300
This kind of noun names a group or things that are considered a unit.
What is a collective noun?
300
In the sentence, "Jimmy is taller than Johnny," the word "taller" is this kind of adjective.
What is comparative?
300
In the sentence, "Showering in the morning is a good way to start the day," the phrase "showering in the morning" is this kind of phrase.
What is a gerund phrase?
300
This kind of conjunction is used in a compound sentence.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
400
This kind of verb has a direct object.
What is a transitive verb?
400
These are the four demonstrative pronouns.
What are "this, that, these," and "those"?
400
Participles act as these kinds of modifiers.
What are adejctives and adverbs?
400
In the sentence, "The trained guide went out in the snow," the word "trained" is this kind of verbal.
What is a participle?
400
This is the name of the kind of comma used before the conjunction at the end of a list (e.g., I like lions, tigers, and bears.").
What is an oxford comma?
500
This is what nouns and adjectives are called when they following a linking verb.
What is a predicate noun and a predicate adjective?
500
In the sentence, "Burton know himself very well," the word "himself" is this kind of pronoun.
What is a reflexive pronoun?
500
In the sentence "Phileas Fogg seems lonely and friendly, not ugly," the words "lonely, friendly" and "ugly" are adjectives because of this reason.
What is because of the word "seems" acts as a linking verb?
500
In the sentence, "Now is is time to leave," the infinitive "to leave" acts as this in the sentence.
What is an adjective?
500
In the sentence, "To discover a new continent must have been exciting for an explorer," this is the subject of the sentence.
What is "to discover a new continent"?