This type of noun is the name of a particular, specific, person, place, thing or idea.
What is a proper noun?
100
What is the subject and the correct verb in the following sentence:
About three quarters of the book (focus, focuses) on modern artists from Latin America.
What is three quarters and focuses
100
It is a verb form that ends in -ing and is used in the same way as a noun is used.
What is a gerund?
100
A punctuation mark that can introduce lists, is placed between the hour and the minute, goes after a salutation in a letter, explains or restates the preceding material, or introduces a long or formal quotation.
What is a colon?
100
The spelling for the second month of the year.
What is F E B R U A R Y?
200
A group of words that have a subject and a predicate but does not express a complete thought.
What is a subordinate clause?
200
What is the subject and correct verb in the following sentence:
A group of students (discuss, discusses) a story by Ron Arias.
What is a group and discusses?
200
The verb type that is used in the following sentence:
Ms. Elizabeth, our English teacher, became the director of the play.
What is a linking verb?
200
The correct capitalization from the following pair:
a. courses in mathematics b. courses in Mathematics
What is a?
200
A synonym for clandestine.
What is secret?
300
It is an action verb that is followed by a direct object answering the question who or what.
What is a transitive verb?
300
What is the subject and correct verb in the following sentence:
Each of those jackets (costs, cost) too much.
What is each and costs?
300
The type of verbal form the word "hearing" is in the following sentence:
Hearing my dad's voice on the phone, I answered quickly.
What is a participle?
300
The punctuation mark that should go between fruit and bananas in the following sentence:
In the basket were several fruit bananas, apples and oranges.
What is a colon?
300
Someone who is loud and noisy.
What is boisterous?
400
It is a sentence that has two main clauses and at least one subordinate clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
400
What is the subject and the correct verb in the following sentence:
The Swiss Alps (stand, stands) along the southeastern border of Alaska.
What is Swiss Alps and stand
400
The verbal used in the following sentence:
Would you ever want to go on a two-week trip to Colorado?
What is an infinitive?
400
The word that should be in italics in the following sentence:
The French word fleur-de-lis is sometimes used to refer to the iris.
What is fleur-de-lis?
400
An antonym for a short, sweet speech.
What is a tirade?
500
A punctuation mark that separates main clauses that are not joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction, or separates two main clauses that are joined by a coordinating conjunction when one or both of the clauses already contain several commas.
What is a semicolon?
500
What is the subject and the correct verb in the following sentence:
The audience (have, has) given two standing ovations for Sweet Honey in the Rock.
What is audience and has
500
What type of action verb is the verb in the following sentence:
Uncle Roscoe met me at the bus station.
What is a transitive verb?
500
What word or words should be underlined in the following sentence:
Eugenia Collier's short story "Marigolds" was first published in Negro Digest in 1969.
What is Negro Digest?
500
A written request for a government or leader to take action.