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Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
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100
A noun is a _________, place,idea, or thing.
What is a person?
100
A verb expresses __________, events, 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 relates a ______ or a pronoun to other words in a sentence.
What is noun?
200
A _________ noun usually adds an "s" or "es" at the end to indicate more than one.
What is a plural noun?
200
A verb _________ is a combination of a helping verb and a main verb.
What is a verb phrase?
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
An example of a "form of be" linking verb and an example of a helping verb that is NOT a "form of be."
answers will vary
300
The ________ adjectives "this," "these," "that," and "those," are identical used to modify nouns or noun phrases.
What are demonstrative?
300
Some (but not all) adverbs can be identified by their characteristic "_____" ending.
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
Which word is the linking verb in this sentence? Miss Lewis is happy her students aced their parts of speech test.
What is is?
400
An __________ adjective ("which" or "what") modifies a noun or noun phrase rather than standing on its own, for example "Which book did he say he wanted?"
What is an interrogative adjective?
400
In the following sentence, "inside" is used as a(n) ____________. Miss Lewis put her kittens inside.
What is an adverb?
400
A prepositional phrase can function as a ______, an _________, or an __________.
What are a noun, an adjective, or an adverb?
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 three main categories of verbs: __________, _________, and ____________.
What is action, linking, and helping?
500
An _____________ adjective ("any" "many" "all" "few") modifies a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase, such as "Many goldfish swim in that pond."
What is an indefinite adjective?
500
You can use a ___________ adverb ("also," "consequently," "finally," "furthermore," "hence," "however," "indeed," "meanwhile," "nevertheless," "next," "nonetheless," "otherwise," "still," "then," "therefore," and "thus") to join two clauses together.
What is a conjunctive adverb?
500
In the following sentence, "outside" is used as a(n) _______________ Miss Lewis put her dogs outside the house.
What is preposition?