Transcript Grammar Jeopardy - Morton District 709 Schools

Fourth Grade
Grammar
Jeopardy
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Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Sentences
Punctuation
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Final Jeopardy Question
What is a common noun?
General name for persons, places, or
things
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10 Point Question
What is a proper noun?
Names a particular person, place, or
thing and begins with a capital
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20 Point Question
What is a possessive noun?
A noun that shows ownership
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30 Point Question
What is a pronoun?
A word used in place of a noun
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40 Point Question
What is a plural noun?
Names more than one person, place or
thing.
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50 Point Question
What are verbs?
Words that tell about action
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10 Point Question
What are helping verbs?
Verbs that are always found with another
main verb
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20 Point Question
What are linking or state of being verbs?
Verbs found when no action is involved
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30 Point Question
What are main verbs?
Verbs that come after helping verbs
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40 Point Question
What is a contraction?
Combines two words in a shortened form
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50 Point Question
What parts of speech do adjectives
describe?
Nouns and pronouns
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10 Point Question
When do you add “-er”?
Add this ending to an adjective when
comparing two people, places or things
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20 Point Question
When do you add “-est”?
Add this ending to an adjective when
comparing three or more people, places
or things
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30 Point Question
What three kinds of information do adjectives
give?
What kind, how many, or which one
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40 Point Question
What are words that begin with a vowel?
Use the adjective “an” before these
words
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50 Point Question
What parts of speech do adverbs describe?
Verbs or adjectives
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10 Point Question
What do adverbs tell about the words they
describe?
How, where, when
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20 Point Question
What can be added to an adjective to form
an adverb?
The ending “-ly”
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30 Point Question
What are “-er” and “-est”?
Endings added to short adverbs to
show comparison
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40 Point Question
What are “more” and “most”?
Use these words before adverbs ending
in “-ly” to show comparison
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50 Point Question
What is a sentence?
A group of words that tells a complete
thought
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10 Point Question
What is a subject?
The part of a sentence that names
whom or what the sentence is about
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20 Point Question
What is a predicate?
The part of a sentence that says
something about the subject
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30 Point Question
What is a sentence fragment?
A group of words that is missing a
predicate or a subject
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40 Point Question
What is a compound sentence?
Two short sentences about the same
idea joined by or, and, or but
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50 Point Question
What is a period?
Punctuation mark used after
statements, commands, and initials
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10 Point Question
What are quotation marks?
Show exact words a person says
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20 Point Question
What is a comma?
Sets apart words in a series and after
the greeting of a friendly letter
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30 Point Question
What is an apostrophe?
Shows missing letters in a contraction
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40 Point Question
What is an exclamation point?
Use after a command that shows
strong feeling
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50 Point Question
Final Jeopardy Question
These are the four kinds of sentences.
What are statements, questions, commands, and
exclamations?