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Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions
100
A noun is a place, thing, idea, or this.
What is a person?
100
A verb expresses events, states of being, and indicates this.
What is action?
100
An adjective modifies this or a pronoun.
What is a noun?
100
An adverb can modify an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, a clause, or this.
What is a verb?
100
A preposition links pronouns, phrases, and these to other words in a sentence.
What are nouns?
200
This type of noun usually adds an "s" or "es" at the end to indicate more than one of something.
What is plural?
200
A verb in present tense tells what is currently happening while this tells the action that already occurred.
What is past tense?
200
Examples of these types of adjectives are "his," "my," "their," "yours," and "its."
What are possessive adjectives?
200
By answering questions like "how," "when," where," and "how much," an adverb indicates manner, place, cause, degree, or this.
What is time?
200
A prepositional phrase is made up of the preposition, any associated adjectives or adverbs, and this.
What is an object?
300
This type of noun shows that it owns or is closely related to something else and may involve adding an apostrophe and the letter "s."
What is possessive?
300
Examples of these are "be," "do," "will," and "have."
What are helping (or auxiliary) verbs?
300
This word is the plural of the demonstrative adjective "that," used to modify nouns or noun phrases.
What is "those?"
300
Some (but not all) adverbs can be identified by this characteristic suffix.
What is "-ly?"
300
This preposition, which may also be considered an adverb, means "moving in one side and out of the other side of" or "continuing in time toward completion of."
What is the word "through?"
400
This type of noun usually starts with a capital letter to indicate the name of a specific person, place, or thing.
What is proper?
400
This part of the sentence involves a verb in order to tell something about the subject's action or condition.
What is the predicate?
400
Meaning "kind and pleasant," students often confuse this adjective for an adverb because it ends with the suffix -ly.
What is friendly?
400
Unlike this descriptive part of speech, an adverb can be found in various places within the sentence.
What is an adjective?
400
A prepositional phrase can function as a noun, an adjective, or this.
What is an adverb?
500
These make sentences less repetitive by substituting for someone or something. Some examples are "he," "which," "none," and "yourself."
What are pronouns?
500
These verbs take a direct object, meaning the action is done to someone or something.
What is transitive?
500
This word is the indefinite adjective in the sentence, "Many goldfish swim in that pond."
What is "many?"
500
A conjunctive adverb (such as "also," "consequently," "finally," "furthermore," "hence," "however," "indeed," "meanwhile," "nevertheless," "next," "nonetheless," "otherwise," "still," "then," "therefore," and "thus") serves to join two of these together.
What are clauses?
500
A preposition usually indicates the temporal, meaning spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence, or this.
What is time?