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Concrete, Abstract, Proper, or Common
Possessive Nouns
Collective Nouns
Appositives
Micellaneous
100
The word "life" is both a ____________ and a ___________ noun.
What is abstract and common?
100
A possessive noun shows this.
What is ownership?
100
A collective noun names a ______________ of individuals.
What is a group?
100
An appositive is a ____________ placed next to another _________ to identify it or add information to it.
What is a noun and a noun?
100
The 3 things a noun describes.
What is a person, place, or thing?
200
Every proper noun should always be this.
What is capitalized?
200
This is the punctuation mark always found when showing possession.
What is an apostrophe?
200
The collective noun form of the word 'geese' is this.
What is a flock?
200
An appositive ______________ is a group of words that includes an appositive and other words that describe the appositive.
What is a phrase?
200
This is the name of a word made by combining two words into one by leaving out one or more letters.
What is a contraction?
300
Concrete nouns name things that can be this.
What is seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted?
300
To make possessive any singular noun, these two things must be added to the noun.
What is an apostrophe and an 's'?
300
The collective noun form of the word 'hippopotamus' is this.
What is a bloat?
300
This is the punctuation that is typically found near the appositive, setting is apart from the rest of the sentence.
What is a comma?
300
Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the collective noun. "Each political party (works, work) untiringly for its candidate."
What is works?
400
Abstract nouns name these three things.
What is ideas, qualities, or characteristics?
400
When a singular noun ends in an 's', to make it possessive one must add this.
What is an apostrophe and an 's'?
400
When the collective noun is a singular unit, use a ____________________ verb.
What is a singular?
400
An appositive can come at the _______________, ______________, or ________ of a sentence as long as it appears next to the noun it identifies.
What is the beginning, middle, and end?
400
Choose the correction form of the noun to complete the sentence. "It took ten (years, years') time for Voyager 2 to reach Neptune."
What is years'?
500
The nouns in the following sentence are: "The radio was first used for communication between ships at sea."
What is radio, communication, ships, and sea?
500
When a plural noun ends in an 's', one must add this.
What is only an apostrophe?
500
When the collective noun refers to the individual members of the group, use a ______________ verb.
What is a plural?
500
What is the appositive in the following sentence? "A simple solution had occurred to Appert, an expert on food."
What is "an expert on food"?
500
Pluralize the following words: Goose Moose Deer
What is geese, moose, and deer?