An everyday term for a person, place, thing, or idea; only capitalized at the beginning of a sentence.
What is a common noun.
100
Show action being done to something or someone else.
What is an action verb.
100
A word that replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun.
100
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is an adverb.
100
A word used to connect words, phrases, or clauses together.
What is a conjunction.
200
A word that references a specific person, place, thing, or idea; is always capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
200
Verbs like am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been.
What are being, helping, or linking verbs.
200
A pronoun used as a subject, like she or they.
What is a subjective pronoun.
200
Words that modify nouns and pronouns and answer the questions Which one? What kind? and How many?
What are adjectives.
200
A word that shows how an object relates or connects with something else.
What is a preposition.
300
Find the nouns in this sentence: My dog ate pizza off of my plate when I wasn't looking.
What is dog, pizza, and plate.
300
Find the verbs in this sentence: She shouted and stomped her foot.
What are shouted and stomped.
300
Pronouns that indicate possession, like his, hers, and ours.
What are personal possessive pronouns.
300
Find the adverb in this sentence: She ran swiftly to pass her competitors and snag the gold medal.
What is swiftly.
300
Find the prepositional phrase: After I ate dinner, I had to take a nap.
What is after I ate dinner.
400
Find the idea/abstract noun in this sentence: I gave my sister permission to ride my bike after school.
What is permission.
400
Find the verb phrase: He must have been an actor.
What is must have been.
400
Find the pronouns in this sentence, and BONUS 100 points if you can identify what type of pronoun: Sonja made herself breakfast yesterday.
What is herself and BONUS: reflexive pronoun.
400
Words that determine specificity, such as a, an, and the.
What are articles.
400
Find the correlative conjunctions: Either you go to the grocery store, or stay home and clean the bathroom.
What are either and or.
500
Find the direct object in the sentence: I gave a Nintendo DS to Michael for his birthday.
What is Nintendo DS.
500
Find the gerund: Eating is one of my favorite activities!
What is eating.
500
Find the indefinite pronoun: She whined that nobody bothered to wake her up on time.
What is nobody.
500
What is the superlative form of good.
What is best.
500
Find the coordinating conjunction in this sentence: I am going to prom with David, but I would rather go with Ben.
BONUS 100 POINTS: Name all 7 coordinating conjunctions.
What is but.
FANBOYS: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.