Nouns
Sentence Construction
Words of the Day
Root Words
Misc
100
Define a noun.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea.
100
These are the two main parts of a sentence.
What is subject and predicate?
100
Define the word "decode".
What is break apart?
100
List the two roots we worked on this week.
What is Lev and Alt?
100
In ____ Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
What is 1492?
200
Grandmother, coffee shop, pencil, and pride are all examples of this type of noun.
What is common noun?
200
This is the first way to tell if your sentence is incomplete.
What is finding the verb?
200
Define the word "contrast".
What is tell how things are different; draw a distinction?
200
The students were _________ when the teacher did not assign homework over the weekend.
What is relieved?
200
Arachnophobia is the fear of ________.
What is spiders?
300
Family, army, committee, and cast are all types of this type of noun.
What is collective noun?
300
This is the definition of a subordinate clause (also dependent clause).
What is a sentence fragment that depends on more information to complete it.
300
Hanging out with friends is an example of this type of relationship.
What is interpersonal?
300
In India, cows are highly revered animals. They are _______ in Indian culture.
What is exalted?
300
The Great Pyramids of Giza were built for this reason.
What is a tomb?
400
List the nouns in the following sentence: I went to the store to purchase garlic bread, a red comforter, and a new shirt.
What is I, store, bread, comforter, shirt?
400
These are the three most common ways to figure out if your sentence is a fragment.
What is find the verb, find the subject, make sure sentence is not a subordinate clause?
400
Sitting alone at home doing your homework is an example of this type of relationship.
What is intrapersonal?
400
Define alleviate.
What is to make suffering, deficiency, or a problem less severe?
400
The River Thames is in this country.
What is England.
500
List the eight types of nouns.
What are common, proper, singular, plural, possessive, count, noncount, and collective?
500
Fix the following example: Even though I listen every day in Ms. Gondringer's class. I still cannot hear the directions because all my peers are rudely talking over her.
What is: Even though I listen every day in Ms. Gondringer's class, I still cannot hear the directions because all my peers are rudely talking over her.
500
"Of or relating to language" is the definition of this word.
What is linguistic?
500
Everyone was crying at the my grandfather's funeral, so my brother decided to tell a funny story to lighten the mood. He was practicing ___________.
What is levity?
500
Scientists use the order of classification to categorize animals. List all sections of the order of classification, in order.
What is kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.