RtI

Parts of Speech

100

Identify the simple noun of the following sentence: Yesterday was the coldest day of the year. 

Yesterday

200

Identify the pronoun in the following sentence: She is on the telephone. 

She

300

Identify the adjectives (2) in the following sentence:

The rusty truck has an oversized trailer.

rusty, oversized

400

Which of the following is an adverb?

hairy, lazily, annoying, silly

lazily

500

Identify the preposition in this sentence:

The stoplight hangs above the street.

above

Brain Teasers

100

I’m not alive but I have five fingers, what am I?

A glove

200

What five-letter word gets shorter when you add two letters to it?

short

300

The more there is, the less you see. What is it?

Fog

400

Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Mount Everest

500

What has to be broken before you can use it?

An egg

Punctuation

100

Are you going to Riley's party this week (period, question mark, exclamation mark)

question mark

200

Is the following sentence correctly punctuated? "It is Marks’ turn to pick the movie."

No

300

Which sentence uses commas correctly?

1. The spoiled, fat cats found the garden full of cool, dark shadows.
2. Mr. Schaeffer viewed, a wild overgrown, unruly yard.
3. Kate, was a brave honest and wise, woman.
4. You guys know where the great, big barking pig, has got to?

1

400

In the following sentence, what word should the comma be after?

Rafa loves art but Aaron likes football.

After "art"

500

Which word(s) need to be capitalized? 

It was a bright, sunny day in dallas, texas. mr. perez could feel the sun's rays on his shoulders as he walked down columbus st.

Dallas, Texas, Mr., Perez, Columbus, St.

Brain Teasers

100

If tomorrow I said “the day before yesterday was Saturday,” which day is today?

Sunday

200

I come down, but I never go up. What am I?

Rain

300

What can be seen once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?

the letter "m"

400

A truck drove to the village and met 4 cars. How many cars were going to the village?

One truck

500

The more you take out of it, the bigger it becomes. What is it?

A hole

Grammar

100

The teacher is wondering _____ test paper has no name on it. (who's/whose)

whose

200

My mother works in a laboratory. (past, present, or future?)

present

300

All my books (is , are ) at home.

are

400

I did all my math homework _______ the last page. (accept/except)

except

500

Our teacher says this quiz will have no ______ on our final grade. (affect/effect)

effect