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Parts of Speech
Double Negatives
Homophones, Homonyms & Homographs
Verbs
Affect vs. Effect
100

Names a person, place or thing.

What is a noun?

100
I didn't hardly notice you cut your hair. Correct/Incorrect
What is incorrect? I hardly noticed you cut your hair.
100
Homophones
What are words that have the same pronunciation, but different spelling and different meanings?
100

Expresses action or state of being.

What is a verb?

100
Affect
What is to have influence on. (Always a verb)
200

Links a noun to another word.

What is a preposition?

200
I didn't get no beans. Correct/Incorrect
What is incorrect? I didn't get any beans.
200
Homonyms
What are words which have the same spelling and same pronunciation, but different meanings?
200

Expresses an action that passes from a doer to a receiver.

What is a Transitive Verb?

200
Effect
What is something brought about by a cause. (Nearly always a noun)
300

Describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

300

The gas truck was not nonflammable. Correct/Incorrect

What is incorrect? The gas truck was flammable.

300
Homographs
What are words which have the same spelling, but different pronunciations and meanings?
300

Are formed by adding -d or -ed to the present tense.

What is a Regular Verb?

300

The D.A.R.E. program had an _______ on the student population.

What is effect?

400

Replaces a noun.

What is a pronoun?

400
I'm surprised that you won't get no money. Correct/Incorrect
What is incorrect? I'm surprised that you won't get money.
400
Homographs: wind and wind Use them correctly in a sentence.
What are answers will vary? Wind blowing and wind up a clock.
400

Cannot be formed by adding -ed to the present tense.

What is an Irregular Verb?

400
Smoking cigarettes can _______ the lungs and possibly be the cause of death.
What is affect?
500

How does an adverb describe a verb?

What is when, where, or how?

500
The teacher didn't think she deserved no credit. Correct/Incorrect
What is incorrect? The teacher thought she deserved no credit.
500
Homophone for paws.
What is pause?
500

Has no receiver of the action.

What is an Intransitive Verb?

500
The senior class prank had a major _______ on the entire student body.
What is effect?