Grammar

Question 1

Name 5 out of 8 parts of speech.

Answer 1

Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Conjunction, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Interjection

Question 2

What is an adverb?

Answer 2

A word that describes a verb

Question 3

What is one example of comparative form?

Answer 3

-er Better, Nicer, Faster, Sweeter, Louder, Funnier

Question 4

What is one example of Superlative form?

Answer 4

-est Loudest, nicest, best

Question 5

Give one example of a conjunction.

Answer 5

But, so, and, or, yet, for, and nor

Question 6

Coordinating Conjuntion: Two examples

Answer 6

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

Question 7

What is an interjection

Answer 7

A word used to convey or express sudden feelings or emotions (Yikes! Hey! What?)

Question 8

What is a noun

Answer 8

A person, place or thing

Question 9

How to change a noun to an adjective

Answer 9

Add suffix to root word

Question 10

What is a pronoun

Answer 10

Word that replaces a noun (He, she, it, they)

Question 11

What’s a verb

Answer 11

an action word

Question 12

active voice

Answer 12

when the subject preforms the action denoted by the verb

Question 13

Passive voice

Answer 13

The subject recieves the action of the verb rather than preforming it.

Question 14

How to change a verb to a noun

Answer 14

add suffix -tion or -ment

Question 15

Interoggative pronouns

Answer 15

who, whom, whose, what, which

Question 16

Present Participle

Answer 16

the -ing form of a verb when it’s used as an adjective

Question 17

Past Participle

Answer 17

end with -ed, -en, -d, -t, or -n

Question 18

Future Perfect Tense

Answer 18

A verb tense for verbs that will occure in the future.

Question 19

Use of Quotation Marks?

Answer 19

“Denots speech!” I say

Question 20

Parallelism

Answer 20

when two words or phrases are parallel in meaning.

Question 21

Colon

Answer 21

Used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.

Question 22

Compound or Complex sentence

Answer 22

A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependant clauses. Example “Though Mitchel prefers watching romantic films, he rented the latest spy thriller, and he enjoyed it very much.”

Question 23

Misplaced Modifier

Answer 23

A word or phrase that’s in the wrong spot.