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Grammar Section 1
Grammar
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Parts of Speech
WILD CARD
100
Name the participle in the following sentence: Having eaten their lunch, the students went out onto the ice.
What is "having?"
100
Identify the prep phrase as an adverb, adjective or noun: Groups OF FEMALES, CALVES, AND YOUNG MALES live together.
What is an adjective?
100
Identify the infinitive phrase in the following sentence: To afford room and board is one reason for wanting a scholarship.
What is "for wanting a scholarship?"
100

In the sentence below, "of" is what part of speech? Sacramento is the capital of California.

What is a preposition?

100
These words often end in ING.
What are gerunds?
200
Name the participle in the following sentence: The audience applauded the couple skating in the competition.
What is "skating?"
200
Identify the gerund in the following sentence: My job, working in the retirement home, gives me great satisfaction.
What is "working in the retirement home?"
200
Complete the following with the correct interrogative adverb: ____________did they manage to get to a continent surrounded by water?
What is "how?"
200

In the sentence below, "should" is what part of speech? This should be an easy test.

What is an adverb?

200

Is the following sentence simple, compound, or complex? Bees have a language for communication, but it is not an oral language.

What is compound?

300
Identify the adverb: But civilians were already here when he arrived.
What is "already?"
300
Identify the preposition and OP in the following sentence: The brain of this type of whale can exceed 20 pounds.
What is "of" and "type" and "whale?"
300
Identify the gerund phrase: Working with older adults might be a career choice.
What is "with older adults."
300

In the sentence below, "felt" is what part of speech? After painting all day, I felt very tired.

What is a linking verb?

300
Identify the participle: Ellen, having trained for years, prepared to perform.
What is "having?"
400
Identify the adverb in the following sentence: "Christopher Columbus sailed westward from Spain in 1492.
What is "westward?"
400
Identify the participle phrase: The school trophy case contained the winners' names engraved in brass.
What is "engraved in brass?"
400
Name the participle in the following sentence: Spectators gathered to watch the skaters flying around the rink.
What is "flying?"
400

In the sentence below, "Every" is what part of speech? Every month the moon orbits the Earth.

What is an adjective?

400
Identify the prepositional phrase: A whale's teeth can be 8 inches in length.
What is "in length?"
500

Identify the adverb in the following sentence: The first American most likely came by way of the Bering Strait.

What is "likely"?

500
Identify the adverb and then label it as an adverb of degree, place, time, manner, affirmation or negation: But civilians were already here when he arrived.
What is "already" and adverb of manner?
500
Identify the participle phrase in the following sentence: Having eaten their lunch, the students went out onto the ice.
What is "having eaten their lunch?"
500

In the sentence below, "sparsely" is what part of speech? The sky leaked raindrops onto the sparsely scattered seeds.

What is an adverb?

500

Which of the intolerables listed in the sentence below is the correct one? Does your/you're mother wear army boots?

What is your?