200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt Parts of Speech What’s my role? Phun with Phrases Adjectives, Adverbs, and Nouns, Oh my! Who/Whom/ Which/That
We are the two parts of speech that may act as the subject.
What are nouns and pronouns?
It’s the part of speech underlined in the following sentence: Mrs. Ash, my favorite teacher of all time, hopes I will do well on the Grammar Test.
What is an adverb?
Either...or, neither...nor, and not only...but also are examples of this type of conjunction.
What are correlative conjunctions?
These are ALL of the coordinating conjunctions.
What are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So?
It’s the gerund in the following sentence. Though studying is my least favorite way to spend my time, I do it anyway.
What is studying?
It’s the predicate nominative in the following sentence. Mrs. Ash, my English teacher, is hoping you’ll review tonight; she is also the creator of the test.
What is creator?
It’s the number of prepositions in the following sentence. To end this game with a high score, you will need to read each answer to yourself as I read it aloud.
What is two?
It’s the direct object in the following sentence: Before she went to the store, Carrie created a grocery list; that Carrie, she is a planner!
What is list?
It’s the antecedent in the following sentence: Mrs. Ash told herself that she would walk Bea and Butters at least twice a day.
What is Mrs. Ash?
It’s the adverb in the following sentence: Well, I thought, I’ve thoroughly reviewed the material; I hope I do a good job.
What is thoroughly?
The trip that we will take next week should be a nice break from the regular routine.
What is an adjective clause?
Because I forgot to set my alarm, I missed my first two classes.
What is an adverb clause? (It tells why.)
Which college you attend will be determined by a number of factors.
What is a noun clause?
I would have made it to practice on time if I had remembered to bring my jersey.
What is an adverb clause?
Whoever wins this game will earn a few bonus points on his or her test.
What is a noun clause?
It’s the gerund phrase in the following sentence: Aching after a long run, I crashed on the couch to watch a show about eating insects.
What is “eating insects”? (It’s the object of the preposition.)
It’s the TYPE of phrase acting as an object of the preposition: After washing clothes for hours, Mrs. Ash spent the afternoon enjoying the beautiful weather.
What is a gerund phrase? (“washing clothes for hours”)
It’s the word modified by the infinitive phrase: To encourage her students’ participation, Mrs. Ash made this most awesome Jeopardy! game.
What is made? (“To encourage her students’ participation” tells why she “made” the most awesome game.)
It’s the number of verbal phrases in the following sentence: Excited about football season, Mrs. Ash invited her family to her house to enjoy a tailgate.
What is two? “Excited about football season” is a participial phrase. “to enjoy a tailgate” is an infinitive phrase.
It’s the infinitive phrase acting as the subject. To many people, Glee is the best new show on television, and to watch the show is mandatory.
What is “to watch the show”?
_____ is going to make an A on the Grammar Test?
What is who?
That student _____ revised her essay earned an additional five points!
What is who?
The quizzes _____ we’ve taken over the past two weeks are great study guides.
What is that?
The argument, _____ I’m sure you’ve already heard, was made again at last night’s meeting.
What is which?
The argument ____ Mr. Ash made was completely ridiculous.
What is that?