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Sentence Types
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Punctuation
100

The sentence that asks something. (Example: Who killed William Frankenstein?)

What is a question?

100

A person, place, thing or idea.

What is a noun?

100
A part of speech that describes an action, occurrence, or state of being.
What is a verb?
100

They describe a noun.

What are adjectives?

100
The first letter of the beginning of a sentence needs this.
What is capitalization?
200

A sentence that expresses strong feeling. (Example: I can't wait to get my revenge!)

What is an exclamation?

200

A word that is used to replace a noun after first reference. 

"Victor dug up a body and then Victor took parts of that body back to Victor's laboratory, where Victor began to create Victor's life-vision."

What is a pronoun?

200

Verbs such as fleeing, strangling, bounding

What are action verbs?

200

"Elizabeth looked exhausted after the trial." The adjective in this sentence is ________.

What is "exhausted."

200

What is the italicized section of this sentence called?

"The Creature, bereft with grief because of his actions, hoped to make amends with Victor."

An appositive

300

A sentence that gives information. (Example: Elizabeth was disgusted by frogs.)

What is a statement?

300

Victor hoped to create life in order to make this "supernatural" idea a reality (hint: Vampires are an example of an entity that have this trait.)

What is immortality?

300

This action verb is the manner in which Victor's little brother, William, was murdered

Strangled

300

"Victor, normally self-assured, screeched when he saw the undead creature's pearly-white teeth." The adjectives in this sentence are (3) __________.

What are self-assured, undead, pearly-white

300

Which sentence uses the semi-colon ( ; ) correctly?

1. "Victor was alarmed by the presence of Henry; indeed, he wished his old friend would do him a service and go away."

2. "The Creature listed his demands to Victor; a companion, a fancy carriage, a new haircut."

"Victor was alarmed by the presence of Henry; indeed, he wished his old friend would do him a favor and go away."


(Semicolons are used to join two independent, but related, clauses that aren't joined by a subordinating conjunction. "Indeed" is an adverb.)

400

A sentence that tells someone to do something. (Example: Go away from this place and stop haunting my family at once)

What is a command?

400

body parts -- NOT "body part"

What is a plural noun?

400
Verbs such as am, is, are, was, be.
What are linking verbs?
400
"The dark clouds parted to make way for golden sunshine." There are _______ adjectives in this sentence.
What is two?
400

True or False: This sentence is missing a comma: "Alphonse went to the market and bought fish, grieved the strangulation death of his son, William, made a soup using the fish argued with Victor and then was in bed before 9 p.m."

What is true?

(Bonus 100 points for the group that can find the missing comma the fastest)

500

What should the ending punctuation be for this sentence?

"The climb is steep, the path zigs and zags, and the landscape is terrifically desolate"

PERIOD

500

The name of Robert Walton's ship in the film version of "Frankenstein."

Prometheus

500

In the sentence: "Victor fled quickly from his House of Ruin." -- "quickly is an example of a what?

1. Verb

2. Adverb

3. Adjective

4. Dance Move

2. Adverb

500
True or False: Numbers can be adjectives. (Example: "He had two apples in his bag.")
What is true?
500

True or false: Sentences can have different meanings depending on where a comma is placed.

"Victor loved cooking, his family, and his pets."

"Victor loved cooking his family and his pets."

What is true?