People, Places, Things, and Ideas
This part of speech includes people, places, things and ideas.
What is a noun?
Sometimes called a dynamic verb, this part of speech shows what the subject is doing.
What is an action verb?
You can use a series of these parts of speech to describe a noun.
What is an adjective?
Rephrase the following sentence, replacing all 3 nouns with pronouns: Sebastian likes homework more than Jane.
What is "He likes it more than she?"
A noun’s a special kind of ______,
It’s any name you ever heard,
I find it quite interesting...
What is a word?
This type of noun is specific and must be capitalized in writing.
What is a proper noun?
This is another name for a stative verb, which only expresses existence, for example I am.
What is a state-of-being verb?
These parts of speech usually have the suffix -LY, and can make a sentence seem awkward if too often haphazardly or if never interjected.
What is an adverb?
This part of speech joins words or groups of words together.
What is a conjunction?
Verb, that's what's ______________.
What is happening?
Unlike concrete nouns, this type of noun cannot be observed by our senses.
What is an abstract noun?
This kind of state-of-being verb connects the subject to a direct object or an adjective, for example "I am awesome."
What is a linking verb?
This is the type of an adjective that is most frequently used in a sentence.
What is an article?
This part of speech shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
We hiked along without care, then we ran into a bear. He was a ______ bear; he was a scary bear.
What is hairy?
This piece of punctuation may be used to join two or more words together to form a compound noun, (although it is not always used).
What is a hyphen?
These types of verbs assist a main verb to express its meaning in a verb phrase. For example, "You learned" can become "You may have learned."
What is a helping verb?
The positive adverbs yes, indeed, and forever have these negative counterparts.
What are no, not, and never?
A sentence consists of a subject and this, which is comprised of a verb and possibly a direct object.
What is a predicate?
Conjuction Junction, what's your function? Hooking up words and phrases and _________________.
What are clauses?
This is the name for a noun that has been replaced by a pronoun.
What is an antecedent?
This is the name for the present participle of a verb, acting as a noun. For example, "Rising early is easy."
What is a gerund?
While comparatives can compare two items using "more" or the suffix "-er", this type of comparison looks at three or more items and uses "most" or "-est."
What is a superlative?
Active voice is structured SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT, but English allows this order to be reversed in this wordier voice.
What it passive voice?
You see a pronoun was made to take the place of a noun,
'Cause saying all those nouns over and over
Can really wear ______ _______."
What is you down?