THE NAMING GAME
A noun names a _____, _____ or _____.
What is a person, place or thing?
A pronoun replaces a noun to avoid _____.
What is repetition?
What are the modifiers in this sentence:
Five men in blue suits were the last ones to leave.
What is five, blue and last?
Name three prepositions.
What is are, from, to, in, of, at, by, for, with, etc.?
What punctuation is used when connecting two independent clauses?
What is a comma?
What is the proper noun in this sentence:
Camryn went to Houston last summer.
What is Camryn or Houston?
Name three personal pronouns.
What is I, you, he, she, it, we, you or they?
What are the two types of modifiers?
What are adjectives and adverbs?
Identify the prepositional phrase:
Before the class, he reviewed his notes.
What is "before the class?"
A word or phrase that connects words, phrases, or ______.
What are clauses?
What type of noun is the word "team" in this sentence:
The team is winning the game.
What is a collective noun?
This type of pronoun shows ownership, like "mine" or "hers."
What is a possessive pronoun?
In what instance is a hyphen not used in modifying words?
What is after an -ly word?
Choose the correct preposition:
They are interested ___ learning AP Style.
What is in?
These three conjunctions are used in correlative pairs: either/or, neither/nor, and both/___.
What is and?
Does the following sentence have a singular or plural noun?
Each of the students played the game.
What is a singular noun?
What are demonstrative pronouns? Can you name some?
What is this, that, these or those?
This common AP style error involves placing a modifier too far from the word it modifies, making the sentence unclear.
What is a misplaced modifier?
Choose the correct prepositional phrase:
He fell off of the roof.
He fell off the roof.
What is he fell off the roof?
Never use “off of” or “outside of"
What type of conjunction is used to join a dependent clause to an independent clause?
What is a subordinating conjunction?
*When, where, after, before, if
Fill in the blank:
The Miami Heat ____ battling for first place.
What is are?
*Team or group names with no plural forms take plural verbs
Fill in the correct pronoun:
Between you and ___, the mayor was wrong.
What is me?
Fix this dangling modifier:
Taking our seats, the game started.
What is "Taking our seats, we watched the game start."
Which combination is correct:
Different from...
Different than...
What is "different from?"
The acronym FANBOYS helps you remember the seven coordinating conjunctions. What are they?
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so?