Parts of Speech
Tense Terrors
Tricky Grammar
Adverbs and Adjectives
Collective Pronouns
100

What part of speech is the word "quickly" in the sentence "She ran quickly to the door."

Adverb

100

What tense is used in "She walks to school every day."

Simple Present

100

What's wrong with this sentence? "Me and him went to the store."

Should be "He" and "I"

100

Multiple Choice: in the sentence:  "The tall giraffe ate leaves." The word tall is an: a) adverb b) adjective

Adjective

100

True or False: The collective noun in this sentence is championship:  "The team won the championship."

False - it is team

200

What part of speech does the word "blue" represent in the sentence "the blue ballon floated away"? The answer is TWO words!

Descriptive Adjective

200

Change "he eats lunch" to the PAST PERFECT tense.

He HAD eaten lunch.

200

Correct the error: "Each of the students have a pencil."

Each of the students has a pencil.

200

What is the word "softly" in the sentence "He spoke softly to the baby."

Adverb

200

Choose the correct verb "The committees ___ meeting today" (is) or (are)

are

300

What part of speech connects words, phrases or clauses?

Conjunctions

300

Identify the tense in the sentence "They will have finished the project by Friday."

Future Perfect

300

Complete this sentence with the correct form "Neither the teacher nor the students (is) or (are) ready.

are - the verb agrees with the closest subject 

300

Choose the correct word: "She looked _______in her costume."  beautiful or beautifully?

Beautiful

300

True or False - this sentence uses a collective noun properly: "The flock of birds flew south for the winter."

True

400

In the sentence "Several people arrived at 9am for the class" what part of speech is the word "several" ?  The answer has two words/

Quantitative Adjective

400

What's the tense in this sentence? "By the time we arrived they had left."

Past Perfect

400

Complete this sentence with the correct form : 

"The armies (is) (are) marching to war but the team (is) (are) ready for battle.

armies are

team is

400

Identify all the adjectives and adverbs in this sentence: "The extremely loud music played constantly.


Adjective  = Loud   Adverbs = extremely and constantly

400

Complete this sentence: "The jury ___ (are) (is)  still deliberating on the verdict.

is

500

True or False. In the sentence "The cat hid under the bed" the word "cat" is a preposition.

False. Cat is the subject and UNDER is the preposition.

500

Rewrite this sentence in the future progressive tense:

"She is writing a letter."

"She will be writing a letter."

500

True or False: This sentence "The 5th batallion are currently deployed in Iraq." is grammatically incorrect.

True

500

True or False - This sentence has a demonstrative adjective:  "He has a limp but he can still run." 

False. It has a possessive adjective

500

Fill in the blank "Neither of the groups____ready."  (was) or (were)

was