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Parts of Speech
Verb It Up
Pardon My Participles
Feeling Tense?
Get Sentenced
100
A word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence
What is a preposition?
100
In this sentence, it is "is."
What is the linking verb?
100
This participle often ends in "-ing" and functions as a noun
What is a gerund?
100
These are the future, past, and present
What are the simple tenses?
100
A set of words that does not convey a complete thought
What is a fragment?
200
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
200
A verb that links the subject to a word in the predicate
What is a linking verb?
200
This participle is usually preceded by "to"
What is an infinitive?
200
This will always have "will have been" or "shall have been" plus the present participle of a verb
What is the future perfect progressive?
200
This occurs when two or more sentences are joined improperly
What is a run-on?
300
A word that is exclamatory
What is an interjection?
300
This is a verb that is always part of a verb phrase.
What is a helping verb?
300
Find the participle: "Shane likes swimming."
What is "swimming?"
300
Identify the tense of the verb phrase in this sentence: "He had eaten the cake."
What is past perfect?
300
Identify the sentence error: Even though I like books, I don't understand comic books they are hard for me to read.
What is a Run-on?
400
A word which joins words or groups of words
What is a conjunction?
400
There are 9 of these
What are verb tenses?
400
Find the participle: "The toast is burnt."
What is "burnt?"
400

Identify the tense of the verb phrase in this sentence: "She was singing loudly."

What is past continuous?

400
Identify the sentence error: The dog, barking at the neighbor.
What is a fragment?
500
A word that shows action or links another word to the subject
What is a verb?
500
This shows mental or physical activity
What is an action verb?
500
find the participle: "The letter is typed."
What is "typed?"
500
Identify the tense of the verb phrase in this sentence: "I will be eating lunch with Sarah."
What is future perfect tense?
500
What punctuation mark is missing in this example? I like Star Trek but I love Star Wars.
What is a comma between Trek and but?