👮Grammar Police
A word that describes a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
The answer you get when you multiply 8 by 7.
What is 56?
On a standard graph, this is the name for the horizontal line that goes left to right.
What is the X-axis?
A story that is entirely made up by the author and is not a true event.
What is fiction?
If a question asks you to find the "sum" of two numbers, you must use this math operation.
What is addition?
The punctuation mark you must use at the end of an excited or loud sentence.
What is an exclamation point?
In the fraction 3/4, the number 3 is called this.
What is the numerator?
An educated guess you make before you start a science experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
The term for the person or voice who is telling the story to the reader.
What is the narrator?
If a multiple-choice question asks "Which of the following is NOT true?", you must find this many true statements in the answers.
What is three?
Use the correct spelling to complete this sentence: "They left _____ backpacks in the classroom." (There, Their, or They're).
What is "their"?
The total perimeter of a square if one side is 5 inches long.
What is 20 inches?
This instrument is the standard tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The time and physical place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
If a reading question asks you to identify the "tone," it is asking you to identify the author's what?
What is attitude (or emotion)?
This part of speech describes an action, like "run," "jump," or "think."
What is a verb?
According to the order of operations (PEMDAS), you must solve this part of an equation first.
What are parentheses?
This type of graph uses a circle divided into slices to show parts of a whole.
What is a pie chart?
A word that means the exact opposite of another word, like "hot" and "cold."
What is an antonym?
If a math question has variables like 'x' in the answer choices, you can use this strategy to solve it easily.
What is plug in real numbers?
This grammatical error occurs when you write "He returned back home" instead of "He returned home."
What is redundancy?
If you have a bag with 3 red marbles and 7 blue marbles, this is the percentage chance of pulling a red marble.
What is 30%?
In an experiment, this is the variable that the scientist changes or controls.
What is the independent variable?
A conclusion you reach based on evidence and reasoning, rather than being told directly by the author.
What is an inference?
If two grammar answer choices function exactly the same way—like a period and a semicolon—you can take this action for both of them.
What is eliminate them both?