Nouns
This is the general term for a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
This part of speech is used to replace a noun to avoid repetition.
What is a pronoun?
This is the action word or state of being in a sentence.
What is a verb?
This part of speech joins words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
This part of speech is a word like green, fast, or huge that modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
This type of noun names a specific person, place, or thing and must always be capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
The specific type of pronoun that shows ownership or possession, like hers or theirs.
What is a possessive pronoun?
This type of verb connects the subject to a word that describes or identifies it, such as the verb "is" in: She is happy.
What is a linking verb?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so are the seven words in this specific group of conjunctions.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
In the sentence: "The puppy was very playful," the word "very" is this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
A noun that names an idea, feeling, or quality that you cannot see, touch, taste, smell, or hear. (Example: freedom)
What is an abstract noun?
This group of pronouns, which includes I, you, he, she, it, we, and they, takes the place of a person's name.
What are personal pronouns?
In the sentence: "The students will finish their project tomorrow," the word "will" is this kind of verb that helps the main verb.
What is a helping verb?
This type of conjunction comes in pairs, such as either/or and neither/nor.
What are correlative conjunctions?
Identify the part of speech of the word "over" in this sentence: "The cat jumped over the fence."
What is a preposition?
This type of noun is formed by combining two or more words, such as firefly or high school.
What is a compound noun?
In the sentence: "Who is going to the park today?", the word who is an example of this type of pronoun.
What is an interrogative pronoun?
The verb "ate" is the simple past tense form of this verb.
What is eat?
This type of transition word, such as however, therefore, or meanwhile, joins two independent clauses and must be preceded by a semicolon.
What is a conjunctive adverb?
Identify the part of speech of the word "late" in this sentence: "We stayed late to finish the assignment."
What is an adverb?
What is the subject (who or what the sentence is about) in the following sentence: Because the weather forecast predicted rain, the class decided to move the picnic indoors.
What is class?
The pronoun that ends in -self or -selves and refers back to the subject, such as in the sentence: "He taught himself to play guitar."
What is a reflexive pronoun?
What is the predicate (the action performed by the subject) in the following sentence: Beneath the sprawling, ancient oak tree, in the deepest corner of the sun-drenched meadow, stood the legendary hidden treasure chest.
What is stood?
You should place this punctuation mark before a coordinating conjunction when it connects two independent clauses.
What is a comma?
What part of speech is the word "past" in the sentence: "The old steam engine chugged past the station, leaving a trail of smoke."
What is a preposition?