Parts of Speech Jeopardy

This term describes a noun that names a specific person, place, or thing and is capitalized, such as Paris.

What is a proper noun?

This term describes a general, non-specific noun that is not capitalized, such as city.

What is a common noun?

This term describes a noun that names something you can see, touch, or otherwise sense, such as a table.

What is a concrete noun?

This term describes a noun that names an idea, quality, or feeling you cannot touch, such as honesty.

What is an abstract noun?

This term describes a noun that names a group of things treated as one unit, such as team or flock.

What is a collective noun?

This type of verb links the subject of a sentence to more information about it, such as is, am, or are.

What is a linking verb?

This type of verb shows a physical or mental action, such as jump or think.

What is an action verb?

This type of verb helps the main verb and includes words like has, will, and did.

What is a helping verb?

This is the past-tense form of the verb go.

What is went?

This is the past-tense form of the irregular verb swim.

What is swam?

This is the antonym of short that describes something with great height.

What is tall?

This adjective, a synonym for huge or gigantic, describes something extremely large in size.

What is enormous?

This type of adjective compares two things and often ends in -er, such as taller or faster.

What is a comparative adjective?

This type of adjective compares three or more things and often ends in -est, such as tallest or fastest.

What is a superlative adjective?

This is the correct comparative form of the adjective good.

What is better?

This adverb, formed by adding -ly to the adjective loud, describes a sound made at high volume.

What is loudly?

This adverb is the opposite of the word late when describing what time something happens.

What is early?

This is the type of adverb that answers the question how, such as quickly or carefully.

What is an adverb of manner?

This is the type of adverb that answers the question where, such as outside or nearby.

What is an adverb of place?

This is the correct adverb form of the adjective quick.

What is quickly?

This subject pronoun is used in place of a female person's name, such as in place of Maria in a sentence.

What is she?

This type of pronoun shows ownership, such as mine, yours, or hers.

What is a possessive pronoun?

This type of pronoun refers back to the subject of the sentence, such as himself or themselves.

What is a reflexive pronoun?

This subject pronoun refers to a group that includes the speaker, such as the speaker plus at least one other person.

What is we?

This pronoun is used to ask a question about a person's identity, such as asking about the person at the door.

What is who?

In the sentence The puppy barked loudly, the word loudly tells how the puppy barked, making it this part of speech.

What is an adverb?

In the sentence The tall boy laughed, the word tall describes the boy, making it this part of speech.

What is an adjective?

In the sentence She quickly ran away, the word she takes the place of a name, making it this part of speech.

What is a pronoun?

In the sentence The children played outside, the word played shows the action taking place, making it this part of speech.

What is a verb?

In the sentence Wow, that trick was amazing, the word Wow expresses sudden emotion and stands apart from the sentence, making it this part of speech.

What is an interjection?