This kind of letter appears at the beginning of every sentence.
What is a capital letter?
100
This type of punctuation always goes at the end of a question.
What is a question mark?
100
a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning
What is a homophone?
100
because he went to the store.
What is a fragment?
100
Four examples of the verb to have in the past tense, including the pronouns?
What are I had, you had, he or she had, they had, we had?
200
This type of noun must always be capitalized because it is the name of something.
What is a proper noun?
200
This type of punctuation always goes at the end of a complete sentence.
What is a period?
200
Three words meaning towards, a couple, and also.
What are to, two, and too?
200
a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (i.e., complete sentences) are joined without appropriate punctuation or conjunction
What is a run-on sentence?
200
prefix meaning to repeat
What is re?
300
This letter is always capitalized when it is by itself.
What is the letter I?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!! This question is worth 600 points.
This type of punctuation shows possession of nouns or proper nouns.
What are apostrophes?
300
Three words meaning a place, possession, and they are
What are there, their, and they're?
300
a sentence is composed of at least two independent clauses, with the proper punctuation or conjunction
What is a compound sentence?
300
either or both of a pair of signs used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
What are parentheses?
400
a noun used to refer to general people, places, and things
What is an improper noun?
400
punctuation marks surrounding a quotation, direct speech, or a literal title or name
What are quotation marks?
400
two words meaning to fly and hurt
What are soar and sore?
400
sentence expressing a strong feeling and ending with an exclamation point
What is an exclamatory sentence?
400
placed before the root of a word, thus altering the meaning of the word
What is a prefix?
500
The most common use of this punctuation mark is to inform the reader that what follows it lists elements of what came before it.
What is a colon?
500
two words meaning leader of a school and a fundamental truth that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior
What are principal and principle?
500
one independent clause and one dependent clause that cannot be split up
What is a complex sentence?
500
a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds