Unit 11 Parts of Speech by Khem

Question 1

Adjective hunt: How cloudy and dark the sky looks!

Accepted Answer

Cloudy, dark, the, Cloudy, dark

Question 2

True or false: A transitive verb has an object.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What do adverbs modify?

Accepted Answer

Adjectives, verbs, and other ad verbs

Question 4

Pronoun or adjective: Those are excited fans.

Accepted Answer

Those - Pronoun

Question 5

"Mountain", "pie", "book", and "day" are all examples of what?

Accepted Answer

Common nouns

Question 6

Noun or adjective? The lecturer found a fruit basket in his hotel room.

Accepted Answer

Fruit - adjective

Question 7

What are some examples of proper nouns?

Accepted Answer

The Mona Lisa, English, Stephen King

Question 8

"Flock", "team", "gaggle", and "pride" are all examples of what?

Accepted Answer

Collective nouns

Question 9

Pronoun hunt: She is the candidate who plans to listen to the people.

Accepted Answer

She and who

Question 10

What makes up a verb phrase?

Accepted Answer

Action verbs and any helping verbs

Question 11

Find the object of the preposition. I rode through the village.

Accepted Answer

Village

Question 12

Find the adverb. She successfully aced her exam.

Accepted Answer

Successfully

Question 13

Adjective or Pronoun? These books are heavy.

Accepted Answer

These - adjective

Question 14

You may have to call the help desk. What is the word help in this sentence?

Accepted Answer

Adjective

Question 15

What is the function of a conjunction?

Accepted Answer

Join words or word groups that are used in the same way

Question 16

Clara uses shears to cut straggling branches from her trees. What is "shears" in this sentence?

Accepted Answer

Noun

Question 17

What is an antecedent?

Accepted Answer

The mentioned noun that the pronoun stands for

Question 18

Pronoun or adjective: Which movie are we going to see?

Accepted Answer

Which - adjective

Question 19

What is an example of a correlate of conjunction?

Accepted Answer

Either or

Question 20

The word "chicken" in "chicken dinner" is a(n)...

Accepted Answer

Adjective

Question 21

What does a linking verb do?

Accepted Answer

Links the subject of a sentence to the subject complement

Question 22

Find the verb phrase: Can a dog that small jump that high?

Accepted Answer

Can jump

Question 23

The flash of the light hurt her eyes. What is the word "light" in the sentence?

Accepted Answer

Noun

Question 24

What are some examples of prepositions?

Accepted Answer

Like, near, aboard, below

Question 25

Dale ran down the stairs and hugged his sister. What is the word "down" in this sentence?

Accepted Answer

Preposition

Question 26

True or false: helping verbs may be separated from the main verb.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

Find the verb phrase: We are always singing Nelly's praises.

Accepted Answer

Are singing

Question 28

How many articles are there to choose from in parts of speech?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 29

Pronoun and antecedent: Kaelyn bought her friends shoes at the mall. They were on sale.

Accepted Answer

Kaelyn : her ; shoes : they

Question 30

Which is an example of a compound preposition?

Accepted Answer

According to

Question 31

Find the adverb. The test was extremely boring.

Accepted Answer

Boring, Extremely

Question 32

What is an example of an interjection?

Accepted Answer

Ouch!

Question 33

Woo hoo! Last question! What is "woo hoo"?

Accepted Answer

Interjection

Question 34

Find the object of the preposition. Marge climbed down the ladder.

Accepted Answer

Ladder

Question 35

Find the helping verb: I am reading a book for English class.

Accepted Answer

Am

Question 36

What is an example of a noun?

Accepted Answer

Fire

Question 37

Which set of words are examples of linking verbs

Accepted Answer

Were, be, feel, taste

Question 38

Find the adverb. It was a fiercely competitive game.

Accepted Answer

Fiercely

Question 39

How can compound nouns be written in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

All of the above.

Question 40

Find the pronoun: Dylan loves to watch the game with his dad.

Accepted Answer

His

Question 41

What is a concrete noun?

Accepted Answer

A noun that we can perceive with one of our senses.

Question 42

What is an action verb?

Accepted Answer

Something that expresses a physical or mental activity.

Question 43

Preposition or adverb? Above, buzzards circled lazily.

Accepted Answer

Above – adverb

Question 44

What does an adjective do?

Accepted Answer

Modifies a noun or a pronoun

Question 45

True or false: Linking verbs are always transitive verbs.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 46

Pronoun or adjective: This is my final offer.

Accepted Answer

This - pronoun

Question 47

A preposition that consists of two or more words is called a what?

Accepted Answer

Compound preposition

Question 48

What is "light" in this sentence: Use care when you light a fire.

Accepted Answer

Verb

Question 49

"Liberty" is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

An abstract noun

Question 50

What are the two types of articles?

Accepted Answer

Indefinite and definite

Unit 11 Parts of Speech by Khem

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Unit 11 Parts of Speech by Khem

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