Parts of Speech | Usage | Dress-ups | Vocabulary | Punctuation/Other Concepts |
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What names a person, place, thing or an idea?
Nouns
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What are words that sound alike, but are spelled differently and have different meanings?
Homophones
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What are clauses used to describe the noun that comes immediately before it?
Who/Which Clause
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What is unusual; strange; unexpected?
Bizarre
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What does every sentence have at the end?
End Marks
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What are the words a, an, the?
Articles
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What are words that express a strong emotion, such as ow, oh, ugh, whew?
Interjections
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What gives a strong image or feeling of actions?
Strong verbs
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What is told; revealed something private or previously unknown?
Divulged
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What is used when someone speaks in a story?
Quotations
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What replaces a noun to avoid repetition?
Pronouns
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What is a symbol that a sentence needs to start a new paragraph?
Indent
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What are strong because they provide a stronger image or feeling or add more detail.
Quality adjectives
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What is gorgeous; magnificent; dazzling?
Splendid
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What is used to show ownership or create contractions?
Apostrophes
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What verbs appear with action verbs to help them along such as am, is, was were, be being, been?
Helping Verbs
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What connects parts of speech, phrases and clauses?
Coordinating Conjunction
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What describes or modifies adjectives or verbs?
-ly Adverbs
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What is like an elf, small and merry or mischievous?
Elfin
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What opener works for sentences beginning with interjections, interrupters, or transitional words and expressions?
Transitional opener
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What are descriptive words that describe (or modify) nouns and pronouns?
Adjectives
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What are an expression that cannot be understood literally, word for word.
Idiom
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What start phrases that usually show some relationship dealing with space or time or tell the position of something?
Prepositions
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What is living nearby?
Neighboring
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What is the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in two or more words in close proximity?
Alliteration
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