Grammar Jeopardy

Homophones

100

Which their/there/they're means ownership? 

Their. 

200

Which form of your/you're is used to mean 'you are'?

You're.

300

Which form of to/too/two means 'also/excessive'? 

Too.

400

Accept or Except: Will you please _ my help?

Accept. 

500

Led or Lead: He _ the blind man to the ice cream shop. 

Led. 

Verb, Adjective, Noun

100

The Grand Canyon is visited by thousands of tourists every year. 

Grand Canyon, tourists, year - noun

Visited - verb

Thousands - adjective

200

The staff is required to watch a long safety video every year. 

staff, video, year - nouns

watch - verb

long - adjective

300

The cleaning crew vacuums and dusts the small office every night.

crew, office, night - nouns

vacuums, dusts - verbs

small - adjective

400

For the bake sale, two dozen cookies will be baked by Susan. 

bake sale, cookies, Susan - nouns

baked - verb

two dozen - adjective

500

That entire stretch of bumpy dirt road was paved by the crew. 

stretch, road, crew - nouns

paved - verb

bumpy, dirt - adjective

Common Grammar Mistakes

100

I can see that (your / you're) worried.

you're

200

The football team won (its / it's) final game.

its

300

Last year's historic blizzard affected all Canadian provinces (accept / except) PEI.

Except

400

We went to Paris and stayed (there / their / they're) for two weeks. (Its / It's) a big city compared to what we're used to.

there and It's

500

I went to (your / you're) house to borrow (your / you're) math book.

your and your

Punctuation / Capitalization

100

Place the Comma: Drew wants to go home but Sarah doesn't want to leave yet. 

Drew wants to go home, but Sarah doesn't want to leave yet.

200

Place the capital letters: i went to lunch with my mother barbara, brother Sam, and sister elizabeth.

I went to lunch with my mother Barbara, brother Sam, and sister Elizabeth.

300

Correct the two punctuation errors: Yes the plane will land at 5:30pm.

Yes, the plane will land at 5:30pm

400

Fix the punctuation and capitalization: While i was in spain the food was delicious. and the people were friendly

While I was in Spain the food was delicious . and the people were friendly.

500

Insert the comma:

Let's eat grandma!

What is: Let's eat, grandma!

Verb Tense and Proper Pluralization

100

We walk/walked in the park yesterday. 

Walked.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/verb_tenses/active_verb_tenses.html

200

Alberta and Saskatchewan have some of the coldest (winters / winter's). 

winters

300

My (dogs / dog's) are named Paislee and Sophie. 

dogs

400

He (needed / need) to go to the library. (Yarmouths / Yarmouth's) library has a lot of free books.  

Needed, Yarmouth's

500

There (is / are) a lot of people in the world. The (worlds / world's) population is 7.97 billion people. 

Are, world's