1. Grammar Jeopardy 10 20 30 40 50 Parts of Speech Subjects Predicates
Types of Sentences
Prepositions 10 20 30 40 50

2. This part of speech is a person, place,
Category 1 – 10 points
This part of speech is a person, place,
thing, or idea. Give the part of speech.
Category

3. Give an example of a noun that is an idea.
Category 1 – 20 points
Give an example of a noun that is
an idea.
Category

4. Category 1 – 30 points
A verb is: ___________
OR _______________

5. Category 1 – 40 points
This part of speech
describes a noun or pronoun.

6. Category 1 – 50 points
Name five state of being verbs.

7. Category 2 – 10 points
Identify the simple subject/s in the following sentence:
Fundamentals of College Writing begins at
3:00 in the afternoon.

8. Category 2 – 20 points
Identify the simple subject/s of this sentence:
After the fall quarter, students and teachers will have a two week break before the winter quarter.

9. Category 2 – 30 points
Identify the simple subject/s of this sentence:
Students in this class are required to write three response essays, and the final essay must be written in class.

10. Category 2 – 40 points
Identify the simple subject/s of this sentence:
It was a night where dreams were made because Omaha, Nebraska, has a professional football team of its very own, and 23,067 fans were loving each and every minute of it.

11. Category 2 – 50 points
Identify the simple subject/s of this sentence:
It was a night where childlike
enthusiasm and roaring support
were put back into professional football.

12. Category 3 – 10 points
Identify the simple predicate/s:
There were plenty of winners Friday night.

13. Category 3 – 30 points
Identify the simple predicate/s:
There’s no doubt about it because 23,067 fans can’t be wrong.

14. Category 3 – 20 points
Identify the simple predicate/s:
One time Lady Gaga performed in Omaha as the opener for New Kids on the Block, and the concert sold out quickly.

15. Category 3 – 40 points
Identify the simple predicate/s:
When the University of Nebraska-Lincoln joined the conference, it also had joined an academic network expected to strengthen the effort to construct a massive digital archive of poetry.

16. Category 3 – 50 points
Identify the simple predicate/s:
Lady Gaga might not still be wearing her meat dress, but Nebraska would be a good place to pick up a new one.

17. Category 4 – 10 points
What kind of sentence is it? Explain.
According to police, a man blasted pepper spray into the face of a 66-year-old church volunteer in southwest Ohio.

18. Category 4 – 20 points
What kind of sentence is this? Explain:
All those fevers, coughs, sprained ankles and other health problems people encounter don’t end when they head off to college.

19. Category 4 – 30 points
What kind of sentence is it? Explain.
Because there is an exam next class period, the students are preparing carefully and studying well.

20. Category 4 – 40 points
What kind of sentence is it? Explain.
Police told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the older man struggled and suffered minor injuries, but he will recover.

21. Category 4 – 50 points
What kind of sentence is it? Explain.
A man scuffled with officers and was hit with a Taser twice before officers handcuffed him.

22. Category 5 – 10 points
What is a preposition? Give three examples.

23. Category 5 – 20 points
Find the prepositional phrase/phrases:
She loves the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

24. Category 5 – 30 points
Find the prepositional phrase/phrases:
In the morning, she opens the door and lets the sun shine over her face.

25. Category 5 – 40 points
Find the prepositional phrase/phrases:
Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go.

26. Category 5 – 50 points
Find the prepositional phrase/phrases:
Before the winter, we must go through our closets and throw out all of the clothing we’ve out-grown.

27. Final Jeopardy! As a team, decide how much you will wager (must be equal to or less than your team’s current total score).

28. It had only one purpose that I could think of.
Final Jeopardy
It had only one purpose that I could think of.
  1. Circle Subordinating Conjunctions. Put a box around Coordinating Conjunctions. 2. Put parentheses around each clause. 3. Label the Simple Subject/s (S) and the Simple Predicate/s (V). 4. Underline the complete subject/s once and the complete predicate/s twice Label each clause as independent (I) or dependent (D). 6. Label each sentence as simple, compound, complex, OR both compound/complex.