Parts of Speech
Identify the noun in the following sentence:
"The train was derailed."
Train
What type of sentence is the following?
The car came to a stop because he put on the brakes.
Complex
What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?
Like a knife through butter, he easily sliced with the log in half with his axe.
Simile
What type of punctuation is missing in the following sentence?
The car turned right too quickly and I gripped my seatbelt.
Comma
What is the acronym helps you remember the coordinating conjunctions?
FANBOYS
Identify the verb in the following sentence:
The boy was kicking the soccer ball.
Was kicking
What sentence type is the following?
My best friend and I fled the scene of the crime and vanished.
Simple
What types of figurative language are used in the following sentence?
The child was a frog on a lilypad, waiting with withheld breaths to leap from one bed to another.
Metaphor and alliteration
What type of punctuation is missing in the following sentence?
Yes, I do believe we have a test today, he told me quietly during announcements.
Quotation marks
A gerund is what part of speech transformed into what other part of speech?
A noun transformed into a verb
Identify the adjectives in the following sentence:
The bright red ball sailed quickly through the totally empty sky.
Optional: the
What type of sentence is the following?
Although he begged and begged me, I did not help him in finishing his homework.
Complex
What types of figurative language are used in the following sentence?
The pirate's hand holding the hooked blade hurled it skyward like a graduation cap, and then on the deck he danced a merry jig for 48 hours straight.
Simile, alliteration, hyperbole
What type of punctuation is unnecessary in the following sentence?
If you'd like to attend the carnival with me--and I truly think you'd have a good time,--please be ready to leave by 7 p.m.!
A participle is what part of speech transformed into what either of what two parts of speech?
A verb transformed into either an adjective or adverb
Which part of speech are the prepositional phrases in the following sentence acting as?
At the hill's top stood the fearless child.
Adverb
What sentence type is the following?
Kicking the dust from his bootheels, he exited the work site and went home.
Simple
Which of the above is NOT included in the following sentence:
He strolled through the whispering pines, footfalls crick-crackling on fallen limbs, the moon above a cup pouring its liquid light on the land below.
Hyperbole
What is the convention error in the following sentence?
The red, rusty, rickety tricycle stand in the rain; I'm too tired to go outside and bring it in, so I just let it stay there, getting ever rustier.
Subject-verb agreement (it should be, "tricycle STANDS")
What type of sentence is the following?
The man who waited patiently for his meal received his order before any other customer received theirs.
Complex
Which part of speech is the participial phrase acting as in the following sentence?
The clouds, broken by a bright orange late evening sun, sailed westward and disappeared behind a cloud.
Adjective
What sentence type is the following?
Neither rain nor snow stopped the postman from completing his route, and entering home late that night with his cap and jacket damp with melting snow, he sat down to a hearty meal and then decided to head to bed.
Compound
Which TWO types are NOT used in the following sentence?
Organized as bees in a hive, fish assembled into hundreds of thousands of schools at the darkest edge of the reef, whispering to one another with hushed blurbs and gurgles.
The following students must report to the office, and if they aren't on time--it starts at 2:30--they will miss the special event; Jimmy, Johnny, and James.
Semicolon
Identify the subjects and verbs in the following sentence:
If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
Subjects: music, you, appetite
Verbs: be, play, give, may sicken, die