Jeopardy Eight Parts of Speech

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Nouns VerbsAdjective/Adverb

Prepositions PronounConjunction/Interjection


What is the definition of a noun?


A noun is a naming word. It names a person, place, thing, idea, living creature, quality, or

action.


What type of noun names a specific person, place of

thing?


Proper noun


What type of noun names any person, place thing or idea?


Common noun


What type of noun names a noun you can perceive with

one or more of your senses?


Concrete noun


What type of noun can you not perceive with one or more of your

senses?


Abstract noun


What is an action verb?


They are used to show when somebody does something.


What are state-of-being verbs?


State-of-being verbs are verbs that state that something IS.


What are helping verbs?


Helping verbs are verbs that are used in a verb phrase

(meaning, used with a second verb) to show tense, or form a

question or a negative.


If you have a singular subject, you must have

what type of verb?


Plural


What is an adjective?


Adjectives are words that describe or modify another

person or thing (noun) in the

sentence


List the three articles.


a, an, and the


Adjectives have degrees, what are the

three degrees?


the positive, the comparative, and the superlative


Christian music and French fries are

examples of what type of adjective


Proper Adjectives


What is an adverb?


Adverbs are words that modify a verb, an adjective, or another

adverb.


What is the definition of preposition?


A preposition describes a relationship between other words

in a sentence.


What is a prepositional phrase?


A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition, a noun or

pronoun that serves as the object of the preposition.


What are the two primary things

prepositions can tell you?


Time and place


What is wrong with this sentence?

“Where are you at?”


You can’t end a sentence with a

preposition.


What is a phrasal verb?


The combination of verb and

preposition.


What is a pronoun?


Pronouns refer to a noun, an individual or individuals or thing

or things (the pronoun's antecedent) whose identity is made clear earlier in the text.


What is the definition of antecedent, when

referring to pronouns?


The word the pronoun is replacing.


What are personal pronouns?


Personal pronouns stand for persons or things


What are the five demonstrative

pronouns?


this/that/these/those/such


What are the four relative pronouns?


who/whoever/which/that


What is a conjunction?


A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins)

parts of a sentence.


What are the seven coordinating

conjunctions?


FANBOYS: For-And-Nor-But-Or-Yet-So


What are interjections?


Interjections are words or phrases used to exclaim or

protest or command.


Most interjections are treated as

parenthetical elements, and are set

of by what?


Commas


A forceful interjection, is followed by what?


Exclamation Point

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