Hint | Example | First Letter | Answer | % Correct |
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(part of speech) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent. | The portions at the burger joint were humongous. | A | Adjective | 100%
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(part of speech) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. | Farley greedily scarfed up all the leftover spaghetti. | A | Adverb | 93%
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(part of speech) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences, and which shows how the two joined parts are related. | You must either roll doubles or go to jail. | C | Conjunction | 70%
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(part of speech) A word that functions as the name of an object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea. | mammal | N | Noun | 67%
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A sentence that has two or more independent clauses, joined by a conjunction (such as 'but', 'and') and/or punctuation (such as ','). | Durward spoils the ending of every single whodunit I start to read, although I’ve asked him not to. | C | {Compound} sentence | 63%
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The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon. | Odette bought the last sack of flour. | D | {Direct} object | 63%
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(part of speech) A type of word that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective. | He’s just not that into you. | P | Pronoun | 63%
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(part of speech) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. | defenestrate | V | Verb | 63%
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A shortened form of a word or word phrase, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark. | can’t | C | Contraction | 59%
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A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence, but functions as either a noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence. | As soon as I get a job, I’m going to move out of my mom’s basement. | D | S | {Dependent | Subordinate} clause | 56%
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A verb form that functions as a noun. | Melvin always thought that brushing one’s teeth regularly was overrated. | G | Gerund | 56%
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(part of speech) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion. | Egad! You scared me half to death! | I | Interjection | 56%
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A word or phrase that is a noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity. | Beavis | P | {Proper} noun | 56%
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A noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a transitive verb (typically as a recipient), but is not the primary object. | After dinner, Cordelia showed her guests home movies of her trip to Pocatello. | I | {Indirect} object | 52%
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A sentence that contains an independent clause as well as one or more dependent clauses, such as a relative clause, an adverbial clause, or a noun clause. | Despite not yet having a driver’s license, Kimmie often borrowed the family car when her parents went out with the neighbors. | C | {Complex} sentence | 48%
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(part of speech) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word. | You’d be surprised what goes on under the boardwalk! | P | Preposition | 48%
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A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; the “dictionary form” of a verb. | bloviate | I | Infinitive | 44%
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A written sentence that inappropriately joins two (or more) independent clauses into a single sentence, often with only a comma as separator (comma splice), which should be rendered either as separate sentences or as clauses joined more appropriately (such as by a semicolon or by a comma and coordinating conjunction). | I’m really angry with Alistair for pantsing me at the prom I was so embarrassed I had to leave! | R | {Run-on} sentence | 44%
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A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and, in modern writing, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop (period) or other punctuation. | The lights are on, but nobody’s home. | S | Sentence | 44%
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A personal pronoun, having a form of "self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself. | I taught myself to play the accordion, even though my friends thought it was a nerdy thing to do. | R | {Reflexive} pronoun | 41%
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A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect. | You should receive your Form W-2 by the end of January. | A | H | {Auxiliary | Helper | Helping} verb | 37%
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A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply. | What are the odds that you will still be sitting on that couch when I get home from work tonight? | I | {Interrogative} sentence | 37%
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An action verb which does not take a direct object. | The angels wept when I auditioned for the church choir. | I | {Intransitive} verb | 37%
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A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words. | endless rounds of JELL-O® shots | P | Phrase | 33%
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The degree of comparison used when comparing the level of an attribute among three or more people, things or actions. | Having known them all since childhood, I can safely say that Phoebe is the vainest of the Murgatroyd sisters. | S | Superlative | 33%
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A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. | A watched pot never boils. | P | Participle | 30%
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