Parts of Speech 2023-24

Question 1

Thirteen-year-old Willis Gibson made worldwide news at the beginning of January.

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adjective

Question 2

Previously, only bots and AI had gotten the game to its "kill screen," but Gibson froze the game with score 999,999.

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adverb

Question 3

Willis made it to what gamers call a "kill screen," a point where the code glitches, crashing the game.

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noun

Question 4

Gibson is the first player to officially beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris.

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verb

Question 5

The original version of Tetris was created in 1984, so Gibson plays it on an old cathode-ray tube television.

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conjunction

Question 6

This may not seem like a big deal to most, but it is considered a major achievement in the world of video games.

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conjunction

Question 7

Vince Clemente, president of the Classic Tetris World Championship confirmed, “This has never been done by a human."

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proper noun

Question 8

As the game froze, Gibson exclaimed, "Yes! I’m going to pass out. I can’t feel my hands.”

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interjection

Question 9

Gibson began playing just two years ago, and quickly rose to be one of the country's top competitive players.

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adjective

Question 10

Many people inside the gaming world considered Tetris unbeatable.

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preposition

Questions 10