Parts of Speech
Phrases
Vocab-Unit 4
Misc. Grammer
100
A word used in place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
100
"William ran towards the goal" What is the prepositional phrase?
What is "towards the goal"?
100
To find out by reasoning
What is infer?
100
Carlos wants to visit Paris Italy Germany and China. How many commas should be in this sentence?
What is 3?
200
A verb is?
What is a word that shows action or a condition of being?
200
"George's specialty was making a perfect souffle. What is the gerund?
What is "making"?
200
Thunder and boom are synonyms for
What is reverberate?
200
Dear Mr. Kurasu of the Kiragowa Corporation What punctuation should follow "corporation"?
What is a colon?
300
A word used to tell when, where, how, what kind, or how much
What is an adverb?
300
A verbal that acts as an adjective plus its modifiers/complements.
What is a participal phrase?
300
Legal and lawful are antonyms for
What is controband?
300
When should one use quotations? (At least two)
What is repeating exact words, to show irony, to show an unusual usage of a word or phrase, to refer to a word itself rather than its associated meaning, or to refer to nicknames/false titles?
400
A conjunction...
What is joining words together?
400
"To keep library records up to date is easy on the computer" is what type of infinitive phrase?
What is a noun infinitive phrase?
400
What people thought was her ________ of mystery was actually a mask for her shyness.
What is aura?
400
"Tomorrow will be Wednesday May 15 2013." Where should all of the commas go?
What is after Wednesday and 15?
500
A word that connects a noun or pronoun to another word in the same sentence
What is a preposition?
500
"The poetry of Robert Frost is identified with rural New England, the place where Frost was raised." What is the appostive phrase?
What is "the place where Frost was raised."?
500
Some flight attendants dread a _________ airline passenger mare than they do rough weather.
What is querulous?
500
It seems difficult to know everythg about the human body. Where should the quotaion marks go?
What is around "know"?