Parts Of Speech

Question 1

Intransitive Verb

Answer 1

Doesn’t require a direct object.

Question 2

Adjective

Answer 2

Modifies nouns and pronouns
Answers:
What kind?
Which one?
How many?

Question 3

Adverb

Answer 3

Modifies adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.
Answers:
Where?
How?
When?
To what extent?

Question 4

Noun

Answer 4

Person, place, thing, or idea.

Hint: some end in ment or tion

Question 5

Demonstrative pronoun

Answer 5

Points out person, place, thing, idea.

Ex: That is the Statue of Liberty.

Question 6

Indefinitive Pronoun

Answer 6

Not specifically named.

Ex: Something is bothering me.

Question 7

Interrogative Pronoun

Answer 7

Introduces a question.

Ex: Who discovered DNA?

Question 8

Relative Pronoun

Answer 8

Introduces a subordinate clause.

Ex: The book [that I need] belongs to John.

Question 9

Independent clause

Answer 9

Subject+Verb

Ex: It might rain tomorrow

Question 10

Dependent clause

Answer 10

Subject+verb

Ex: Because it is going to rain tomorrow.

Question 11

Independent clause + Independent clause=

Answer 11

Comma splice/run on sentence

Fix with a period to make two sentences, a comma with a conjunction, or a semicolon where a period would go.

Question 12

Interjection

Answer 12

Shows emotion of excitement.

Question 13

Conjunction

Answer 13

FANBOYS

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Question 14

Preposition

Answer 14

Shows the relation between one thing to another.

Question 15

Transitive Verb

Answer 15

Requires a direct object. Something receives the action.

Subject+verb+What/whom? Direct object.