Nouns
Verb or Verb phrase
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Adjective or Adverb
100
List all of the nouns: Kylie Jenner disputed three rumors about her personal life in one tweet late Thursday.
What is Kylie Jenner, rumors, life, tweet, Thursday.
100
Identify the verb or verb phrase whichever one exists: To read the story, however, you first have to answer a riddle.
What is have?
100
Identify 3 different prepositions: According to another source close to the couple, Prince William requested "two Pizza Express pizzas be delivered to their room at the Lindo Wing (at London's St Mary's hospital)" on the day his wife gave birth to her first son Prince George.
What are according to, to, at, on?
100
Identify the conjunctions: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association loves to nominate celebrities, but this year, they left a few off the list — no Angelina Jolie for directing “Unbroken,” no Ben Affleck for “Gone Girl,” no Bradley Cooper for “American Sniper” and no Julia Roberts for HBO’s “The Normal Heart.”
What is but, and?
100
Identify the adjectives: The Sony Pictures musical remake has been surrounded by bad buzz.
What is Sony, musical, bad?
200
Identify the abstract noun: As previously reported by Us, the two have been seeing each other since this fall, though they have not publicly confirmed their romance.
What is romance?
200
Identify the verb or verb phrase: Roaring like a freight train from hell, the Northridge earthquake threw sleeping Angelenos from their beds at 4:31 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994.
What is threw?
200
Identify the preposition for the object supermarket: "They both really love their pizza," the insider told Us at the time, adding that Middleton's also been spotted buying frozen pizzas at the supermarket over the years.
What is at?
200
The Hollywood Foreign Press shined the spotlight on the little-seen CBS Film indie about a group of gay-rights activists who joined the 1984 British coal-miners strike; however, they chose it over “Big Eyes,” “Begin Again,” “Inherent Vice” and “Annie.”
What is however?
200
Identify the adverb: It’s incredibly rare for a show to pop back into contention after dropping out.
What is incredibly?
300
Identify the singular concrete noun: A Florida couple who allegedly moved into a 7,500-square foot mansion and even wrote about it on Facebook faces charges of grand theft, forgery and unlawful filing.
What is mansion?
300
Identify the verb or verb phrase: With more than $40 billion in property and economic losses, Northridge was one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history.
What is was?
300
Identify the number of prepositions: The charity auction and dinner was held in honor of the Clara Lionel Foundation, an organization created in honor of her grandparent to improve the quality of life for communities globally.
What is 6?
300
Identify the conjunctions: It not only got snubbed there, but also didn’t pick up a single nomination — not for its lead actor (Jack O’Connell), supporting actor (Takamasa Ishihara), screenplay (by the Coen brothers) or director (Jolie).
What is not only, but also, or?
300
Identify the adverbs: Holiday hooliganism is no longer limited to thieves running off with baby Jesus from a nativity scene or vandals throwing eggs at mangers.
What are no longer?
400
Identify the compound noun or nouns: Justin, 24, and Jenna, 23, Dean allegedly set up residence in the Keystone Heights, Florida, home -- the centerpiece of a 240-acre estate -- in September
What are Keystone Heights and centerpiece?
400
Identify the verb or verb phrase: The earthquake's shaking was stronger than the force of gravity, lifting furniture off the floor and buildings off their foundations.
What is was?
400
Identify the preposition for the compound object Brad Pitt, Kim, Kardashian, and Jimmy Kimmel: Many celebs turned out for the event like Brad Pitt, Kim Kardashian (in a see-through skirt), and Jimmy Kimmel, but in a wine red Zac Posen mermaid gown that hugged her in all the right places, the Barbados-born singer stole the show.
What is like?
400
Identify the conjunctions: Even though it’s the biggest drama on TV — and critics felt like season five experienced a creative surge, it would probably take an actual zombie apocalypse for any recognition from a major awards body.
What is Even though, and?
400
Identify the adverb: More alarmingly, the players want to abandon the triangle offense that new team president Phil Jackson and coach Derek Fisher have have spent significant time and resources attempting to install, according to Broussard.
What are more alarmingly?
500
Identify the gerund: It's a short bit of writing, but it answers at least one question and links a few very important events in the books.
What is writing?
500
Identified the verb or verb phrases: The five-months pregnant duchess shared the delicacies with a Kensington Palace assistant, her private secretary Rebecca Deacon and hairstylist Amanda Cook-Tucker while she prepared for her evening engagement.
What are shared and prepared?
500
Identify the number of prepositions: The event raised $375,000 in a live auction. Salma Hayek and her husband Francois-Henri Pinault snagged a piece of artwork by Damien Hirst for $190,000 and another lucky participant came away with the privilege of naming a Gucci handbag for an upcoming line.
What is 7?
500
Identify the conjunction: You would think that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association would find room for the French actress’ stellar turn in the Dardenne brothers’ drama, especially after her performance got notices from the New York Film Critics Circle and Boston Society of Film Critics Awards last week.
What is after?
500
Identify the adjectives: The eight-part series follows the search for a missing boy in France and follows in the footsteps of last year’s powerhouse Starz entries “The White Queen” and “Dancing on the Edge” (which earned that now infamous upset win for Jacqueline Bisset).
What are eight-part, missing, last, powerhouse, Starz, infamous?