Nouns/Pronouns
Give an example of a proper noun.
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Name the three articles. Are they adjectives or adverbs?
What are a, an, the? What are adjectives?
Identify the conjunction in the following sentence: "I wanted to go to the park, but it started raining."
What is but?
The punctuation mark that usually follows an interjection when it is used to express strong feelings.
What is an exclamation point?
The word for a figure of speech that compares two things using “like” or “as”
Provide the nouns in the following sentence: "He had a business meeting before the soccer game."
What is meeting and game?
Name the three parts of speech adverbs can modify/describe.
What are adjectives, verbs, and verbs?
Name the seven coordinating conjunctions.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
Identify the interjection in the following sentence: "Well, I suppose we can try again tomorrow."
What is "well"?
Author of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven"
Name an interrogative pronoun.
What are what, which, who, whom, or whose?
Provide the adverb(s) in the following sentence: "He ran fast to avoid the quickly moving zombies."
What are fast and quickly?
Provide 6 commonly used prepositions.
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Identify the helping verb in the following sentence: "They might go to the concert if they can."
What is "might"?
You will find the characters "Gollum" and "Frodo Baggins" in this book and film series.
What is Lord of the Rings?
Name a possessive pronoun.
What is mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, or theirs?
Provide an example of a sentence with an adverb modifying an adverb.
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Name the part(s) of speech that the object of a preposition is.
What are nouns and pronouns?
Name three "to be" verbs (hint: these are used as linking verbs).
What are am, are, is, was, were, be, been, and being?
Poet that wrote "The Road Not Taken"
Who is Robert Frost?
List THREE categories for nouns
What are proper, common, concrete, abstract, and collective nouns?
Provide the adjective(s) in the following sentences: "The ancient ruins of the dying city were fascinating." (include articles)
What are the, the, ancient, dying, and fascinating?
Provide the preposition(s) in the following sentence: "It is permissible for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with."
What are for and with?
Identify the verbs in the following sentence: "The report was written by the team after they had gathered all the data."
What are was, written, had, and gathered?
A 14-line poem, typically written in iambic pentameter, with a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?