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Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
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100
A noun is a _________, place, or thing.
What is a person?
100
A verb expresses __________, or states of being
What are actions?
100
An adjective modifies a _________ or pronoun.
What is a noun?
100
An adverb can modify a _________, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause.
What is a verb?
100
A preposition links ______, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence.
What are nouns?
200
A _________ noun usually adds an "s" or "es" at the end to indicate more than one.
What is a plural noun?
200
The present participle verb form of run is _______________.
What is "is running"?
200
Examples of ___________ adjectives are "his" "my" "their" "yours" and "its."
What are possessive adjectives?
200
An adverb indicates manner, _______, place, cause, or degree, and answers questions like "how" "when" "where" and "how much"
What is time?
200
A ___________ _________ is made up of the preposition, its object and any associated adjectives or adverbs.
What is a prepositional phrase?
300
To form a _____________ noun and to show that it owns or is closely related to something else, you would usually add an apostrophe and the letter "s"
What is a possessive noun?
300
Examples of auxillary verbs, more commonly known as __________ verbs, are "be" "do" and "have."
What are helping verbs?
300
A type of verbal that ends in --ing and acts as an adjective is called a _________________.
What is a participle?
300
Some (but not all) adverbs can be identified by their characteristic "_____" suffix.
What is "ly?"
300
The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the _________ of the preposition.
What is the object?
400
A __________ noun usually starts with a capital letter to indicate the name of a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
400
The verb is a critical element of the ___________ of the sentence, which tells something about the subject.
What is the predicate?
400
______________is the comparative form (compares 2 things) of good.
What is better?
400
Unlike an ____________, an adverb can be found in various places within the sentence.
What is an adjective?
400
Four examples of prepositions are _________, ______, ______, and __________. (Choose any four)
What are "to, on, across, above", etc...?
500
You use ___________ like "he," "which," "none," and "you" to make your sentences less cumbersome and less repetitive.
What is a pronoun?
500
There are four principle parts of a verb: basic form, present participle, past form, and ______ ___________.
What is past participle?
500
The superlative form of useful is _______________. Example: A shovel is the ______________of all the garden tools.
What is most useful?
500
You can use a ___________ conjunction, such as "if, unless, after, as, because," to combine dependent and independent clauses.
What is subordinating?
500
A prepositional phrase can function as a ________, an _____________, or an __________.
What is a noun, an adjective or an adverb?