English

There are two answers to this question: Spell "whether" correctly in the following sentence: "Whether or not I go fishing today will depend on the weather."

Whether, weather

Identify all the adjectives in the following sentence: I bought my mom a wonderful old Italian clock for her birthday.

Wonderful, Old, and Italian

Identify the conjunction in the following sentence: I try very hard in school yet I am not receiving good grades.

Yet

There are two answers to this question: Spell "your" correctly in the following sentence: Your doing a good job on your report.

You`re, your

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: The sweet potatoes in the vegetable bin are green with mold.

in the vegetable bin

This is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters, like IRS or FBI, and sometimes syllables, like Brexit.

Acronym

This part of speech is a describing word and its role is to qualify a noun or noun phrase by giving more information about the object signified. An example is the word happy in the following sentence, "I saw three happy kids."

Adjective

In the following sentence, what part of speech is the word very? He worked very quickly.

Adverb

The following sentence is an example of what kind of figurative language? The big boy bagged a bull moose when he went hunting last week.

Alliteration

What is the name of the symbol that means "and", as in New York & Company, Proctor & Gamble, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, or Abercrombie & Fitch?

Ampersand

This term refers to a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar. Similes and metaphors are used to develop these comparisons. Examples include, "Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer." or "You are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard."

Analogy

What is it called when a name is spelled backwards and is used as a pseudonym? Oprah Winfrey uses her first name as one of these for the name of her production company --Harpo.

Ananym

What do we call the word that a pronoun stands for or replaces? The word comes from Latin words that mean 'going before.'

Antecedent

What are words called whose meaning is opposite to that of another word? Examples include: in and out; open and close; left and right.

Antonyms

This term refers to statements that contain a truth or opinion that are often told with a pinch of humor, which gives them a universal acceptance. An example of these statements is from Benjamin Franklin when he said, "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Aphorism

This is a word or group of words that gives more information about the subject. It is usually set apart from the rest of the sentence by commas.

Appositive

This part of speech is a word that is used alongside a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. Examples of this part of speech in the English language are the, a, an, and, in certain contexts, some.

Articles

When wanting to refer to something at the bottom of the page or something you want to comment on in your writing what symbol should be used?

Asterisk

This is a part of speech that is used to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. An example is the word 'and' in the following sentence, "Mary went to the supermarket and bought oranges." Other examples include, because, but, or, and yet.

Conjunction

What punctuation marks should be used in place of commas to set off a phrase in the middle of a sentence for emphasis.

Dashes or hyphens

The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote a book, On Rhetoric, in which he explains his theories on persuasive language. This is the Greek word meaning "character" or "ethics" and it is used as a technique in persuasive speech to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology.

Ethos

What term refers to replacing a disagreeable or possibly offensive term or phrase with a more agreeable one?

Euphemism

What type of composition would you be writing if you wrote about how to use a fire extinguisher?

Expository

Identify all the gerunds in the following sentence: Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Feeling, Expressing, Wrapping, Giving

What term describes the following literary devices; alliteration, hyperbole, idiom, imagery, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, and simile?

Figurative Language

What are the two reasons that apostrophes are used?

For contractions and possessions

This is a term for a verb form that functions as a noun. In English, the term has been applied to words ending in '-ing' in certain uses. Examples include reading, working, asking, and jumping.

Gerund

The rules governing speech and writing are called what?

Grammar

An indirect object is a noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a transitive verb, but is not the primary object. Identify the indirect object in the following sentence, "Jim built his granddaughter a sandcastle on the beach."

Granddaughter

Identify the verb in the following sentence: I hear the train coming.

Hear

What term refers to words that have the same pronunciation and at the same time, they have the same spelling, but different meanings. An example is the word 'bear' as it could mean 'a wild animal' or 'to withstand'. Another example is the word 'lie' as it could mean 'to tell something that is not true' or 'to be in a horizontal position.'

Homonym

What term refers to words that have same pronunciation, but have different spellings and meanings? Examples include meat and meet (m-e-e-t and m-e-a-t, knew and new (k-n-e-w and n-e-w), road and rode (r-o-a-d and r-o-d-e).

Homophone

The use of exaggeration for emphasis or effect, usually humorous, as in the following sentence is called what? I told you a million times not to exaggerate in your writing.

Hyperbole

What is the implied meaning of this idiom? The lesson was over my head.

I didn't understand

What do we call an expression whose meaning must be learned because the words do not have their usual meanings? Examples include: to break the ice, kick the bucket, and throw in the towel.

Idiom

This is a grammatical term that can be used as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb and will almost always begin with 'to' followed by the simple form of the verb. Examples of this term include to sleep, to look, to read, and to throw.

Infinitives

Words such as: Oh!, Hey!, Gee!, and Ouch!, that are used to express emotion or strong feelings are known as what?

Interjections

The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote a book, On Rhetoric, in which he explains his theories on persuasive language. This is the Greek word meaning "opinion" or "reason" and it is used as a technique in persuasive speech to persuade an audience using logical arguments and supportive evidence.

Logos

What type of composition would you be writing if you wrote about the day you learned to ride a bike?

Narrative

When advertising, marketers often use words that are made up or assigned a new meaning. A few examples are blogosphere, ginornmous, sassafraction, and flustrated. What are these words called that are made up or assigned a new meaning?

Neologisms

This part of speech refers to some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas. These can be a subject or an object of a verb, can be modified by an adjective, and can take an article or determiner.

Noun

This is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Examples include splash, thud, buzz, zoom, and slap.

Onomatopoeia

This term is a figure of speech that combines two terms that are normally contradictory, but contain a concealed point. Examples include dark light, living dead, deafening silence, irregular pattern, and same difference.

Oxymoron

What are words or phrases that are spelled the same backwards as forwards? Examples of words include: mom, dad, radar, or racecar. Examples of phrases include: Madam, I'm Adam or Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog!

Palindrome

Identify all the concrete nouns in the following sentence: Suddenly, a large roaring black panther appeared from behind the rock.

Panther and Rock

This is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words. It typically explains or clarifies a text and serves to put the source's statement into perspective or to clarify the context in which it appeared. For example, "The signal was red" might be restated as "The train was not allowed to pass because the signal was red".

Paraphrase or Paraphrasing

There are two answers to this question: First, what voice is the verb in when the subject of the sentence is acted upon instead of performing the action of the sentence? Second, what voice does an action verb have when the subject of the sentence performs the action?

Passive Voice, Active Voice or Passive, Active

The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote a book, On Rhetoric, in which he explains his theories on persuasive language. This is the Greek word meaning "suffering" and it is used as a technique in persuasive speech to appeal to the emotions of the audience and elicits feelings that already reside in them.

Pathos

This term refers to the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman. Examples include, "The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky." or "The wind howled its mighty objection."

Personification

This is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work. It is considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics. It is subject to sanctions like penalties, suspension, and even expulsion.

Plagiarism

Name the type of verbs that have the same subject and direct object. Example: He laughed himself into a coughing fit.

Reflexive

Identify the common noun in the following sentence: We wanted to try a new restaurant, so we went to Olive Garden.

Restaurant

A direct object is a noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a transitive verb. Identify the direct object in the following sentence, "Jim built his granddaughter a sandcastle on the beach."

Sandcastle

Identify the proper noun in the following sentence: He never goes anywhere without Sarah.

Sarah

This is a method of rapidly covering a great deal of material in order to locate a specific fact or piece of information. This is very useful for finding a specific name, date, statistic, or fact without reading the entire article.

Scanning

What point of view is given in the following passage? "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You`re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who`ll decide where to go."

Second person point of view or Second person

This is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning in language, programming languages, and formal logic. It is concerned with the relationship between words, phrases, signs, and symbols and what they stand for in reality.

Semantics

List the pronouns in the following sentence: She told me herself that he would be there.

She, me, herself, he

This is a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things with the help of the words "like" or "as". Examples include "John is as slow as a snail." or "The water well was as dry as a bone."

Simile

This is a method of rapidly moving the eyes over text with the purpose of getting only the main ideas and a general overview of the content.

Skimming

What is the grammatical mistake in the following sentence called? I wanted to vigorously shake his hand.

Split infinitive

What are words or phrases called where the order of the sounds are mixed up? Examples include: Flutterby meaning butterfly, ossifer meaning officer, goys and birls meaning boys and girls, and keys and parrots meaning peas and carrots.

Spoonerisms

What are words called whose meaning is the same or nearly the same to that of another word? Examples include: large and big; little and small.

Synonyms

What do we call the grammatical arrangement of words, showing their connection and relation?

Syntax

Identify the collective noun in the following sentence: This year's basketball team includes three players who are over six feet tall.

Team

There are three answers to this question: Spell "there" correctly in this sentence: There the girls who met there mother over there.

They`re, their, there

Identify all the infinitives in the following sentence: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

to keep, to open

This part of speech conveys an action, an occurrence, or a state of being. Action words include run, learn, and read. Occurrence words include happen and become. State of being words include be, exist, and stand.

Verb

Identify the words that need to be capitalized the following sentence: we went to akron, ohio to visit the football hall of fame.

We, Akron, Ohio, Football, Hall, Fame

There are two answers to this question: Spell "where" correctly in the following sentence: Where do you plan to wear that new dress you bought last weekend?

Where, wear

Identify all the articles in the following sentence: A dog ran through the screen door.

A and the

The pilcrow symbol looks like a backwards P. What unit of text does it usually introduce?

A paragraph

What type of writing states a clear position, includes relevant information and offers compelling evidence in the form of facts and details?

A persuasive piece

This is a type of noun that refers to something with which a person cannot physically interact. It refers to an aspect, concept, idea, experience, state of being, trait, quality, feeling, or other entity that cannot be experienced with the five senses. Examples include love, hate, pride, and courage.

Abstract Noun or Abstract

This is a specially constructed phrase that is supposed to be the source of a word that is, or is claimed to be, an acronym. It is constructed by creating a new phrase to fit an already existing word, name, or acronym. For example, the Amber Alert program that now refers to Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old abducted and murdered in Texas in 1996.

Backronym or Bacronym

What is the term that describes a much used expression that has lost its freshness and descriptive power, such as" just the tip of the iceberg", "to fall on deaf ears," and "to make a mountain out of a molehill"?

Cliché

What part of a letter is represented by: Sincerely, Yours truly, or Best wishes?

Closing

This is a type of noun that refers to a collection or a number of people or things taken as a whole. Examples include group, herd, class, and jury.

Collective Noun or Collective

This is a type of noun that refers to words that are used to name general items rather than specific ones. Examples include teacher, police officer, couch, street, and mall.

Common Noun or Common

This is a type of noun that refers to things that you can experience through your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Examples include a flower, milk, pie, and music.

Concrete Noun or Concrete

The pronouns this, that, these, and those are referred to by what name?

Demonstrative Pronouns or Demonstrative

What are the symbols called that are added to letters of the alphabet to indicate different pronunciation than the letters are usually given.

Diacritical Marks

Use the appropriate forms of the word `dice` in this sentence. Some board games use a single ____, while others use two or more _____.

Die, dice

What might a writer use to show omission of unnecessary words or to show a break in his/her thoughts?

Ellipsis

There are two answers to this question: Spell "its" in the following sentence: Its obvious that the dog likes its bone.

It`s, its

Identify the abstract nouns in the following sentence: Childhood memories are sources of great joy.

Memories, Joy

This is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics without using the words "like" or "as". Examples include "He is the black sheep of the family." or "The assignment was a breeze."

Metaphor

This is any learning technique that aids information retention in the human memory. These allow the brain to have better memory and retention of the information by associating it with something more meaningful. Examples include ROY G BIV for remembering the seven colors of the rainbow or HOMES for remembering the names of the five Great Lakes.

Mnemonic Device or Mnemonics

What term means to needlessly repeat the meaning of other words or phrases, such as: old antique, return back, nice compliment, and proven fact?

Redundant

There are two answers to this question: First, what term refers to one or more letters added to the beginning of a word that changes its meaning or function? Second, what term refers to one or more letters added at the end of a word that changes its meaning or function?

Prefix, Suffix

The following words are examples of what part of speech? In, with, for, on, to, at, around, between, under, through

Preposition

There are eight parts of speech. Five of the eight parts of speech are noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, and adjective. Name the other three parts of speech.

Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection

What tense is the verb in the following sentence? He is having a hard time completing the assignment.

Present Progressive

Name the part of speech that takes the place of a noun.

Pronoun

What should you take the time to do when you are finished writing an essay or filling out an application form to check for errors?

Proofread

A noun that names a definite and particular person, place, or thing is what type of noun?

Proper

This part of speech has two distinct features: One, they name specific one-of-a-kind items, and, two, they begin with capital letters, no matter where they occur within a sentence. Examples include Oreos, Columbus, Jupiter, Mrs. Jones, and The Library of Congress.

Proper Noun

There are four answers to this question: Spell 'to' correctly in the following sentence: I`m to hot to help you carry to suitcases to the bus station.

Too, to, two, to

When writing, how are the following words or phrases used: finally, first, for example, meanwhile, then, and most importantly?

Transition words or Transition phrases

What is significant about this sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."?

Uses all the letters of the alphabet