What's in a noun?
A noun by any other name
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Verb is the word
Oh my!
100

Define a noun

What is a person, place, thing, event, or idea?

100

Define a pronoun

What is a word that takes the place of a noun or pronoun?

100

Define an adjective

What is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun?

100

Define a verb

What is a word that expresses an action or state of being?

100

An adverb can modify three types of words. They are...

What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?

200

What three categories does the noun "invitations" fall under?

What is common, concrete, and plural?

200

Personal pronouns come in first, second, and third person. Give the singular and plural second-person personal pronouns.

What are you and you (y'all)?

200

Adjectives such as "smarter" and "more exciting" are called...

What are comparative adjectives?

200

Which one of these is not always an action verb: dream, feel, walk, or think

What is feel?

200

Sara asked to speak to me because I had her book. Identify the conjunction.

What is because?
300
Nouns such as "flock" and "team" are what category?

What are collective nouns?

300
Mine, yours, and hers are all this type of pronoun

What is possessive?

300

After comparative, you have adverbs such as "greenest" and "most entertaining" which are called...

What are superlative adjectives?
300

You can often recognize a linking verb by replacing it with what symbol?

What is an equal sign?

300
This part of speech relates the noun to the rest of the sentence

What is a preposition?

400

Possessive nouns are indicated by what punctuation?

What are apostrophes?

400

Define an antecedent

What is the word that a pronoun replaces?

400

Identify the adjectives in this sentence: It was a sunny day and the three white chickens were excited.

What are sunny, three, white, and excited?

400

The part of the sentence that receives the verb is called...

What is the object?

400

The teacher told us we were being too loud because we were playing Uno. Identify the adverb

What is too?

500
Nouns can be either subjects or objects in a sentence. What does a subject do?

What is performs the action of the sentence?

500

Give the name for pronouns such as myself, herself, themselves

What is reflexive?

500
An adjective may tell you how many or what kind. Mrs. Hurn called these categories...

What are quality and quantity?

500

The two parts of speech that will follow a linking verb

What are adjective or noun?

500
This category title is this part of speech

What is an interjection?