The document provides definitions and examples of the eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and interjections. It defines each part of speech and provides examples to illustrate their meanings and uses in the English language.

1. JEOPARDY! The Eight Parts of Speech Click Once to Begin

2. JEOPARDY! 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500 Nouns Verbs Adjective/Adverb Prepositions Pronoun Conjunction/Interjection

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4. What is the definition of a noun?

5. A noun is a naming word. It names a person, place, thing, idea, living creature, quality, or action.

6. What type of noun names a specific person, place of thing?

7. Proper noun

8. What type of noun names any person, place thing or idea?

9. Common noun

10. What type of noun names a noun you can perceive with one or more of your senses?

11. Concrete noun

12. What type of noun can you not perceive with one or more of your senses?

13. Abstract noun

14. What is an action verb?

15. They are used to show when somebody does something.

16. What are state-of-being verbs?

17. State-of-being verbs are verbs that state that something IS.

18. What are helping verbs?

19. Helping verbs are verbs that are used in a verb phrase (meaning, used with a second verb) to show tense, or form a question or a negative.

20. If you have a singular subject, you must have what type of verb?

21. Plural

22. What is an adjective?

23. Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing (noun) in the sentence

24. List the three articles.

25. a, an, and the

26. Adjectives have degrees, what are the three degrees?

27. the positive, the comparative, and the superlative

28. Christian music and French fries are examples of what type of adjective

29. Proper Adjectives

30. What is an adverb?

31. Adverbs are words that modify a verb , an adjective, or another adverb.

32. What is the definition of preposition?

33. A preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence.

34. What is a prepositional phrase?

35. A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition , a noun or pronoun that serves as the object of the preposition.

36. What are the two primary things prepositions can tell you?

37. Time and place

38. What is wrong with this sentence? “Where are you at?”

39. You can’t end a sentence with a preposition.

40. What is a phrasal verb?

41. The combination of verb and preposition .

42. What is a pronoun?

43. Pronouns refer to a noun, an individual or individuals or thing or things (the pronoun's antecedent) whose identity is made clear earlier in the text.

44. What is the definition of antecedent, when referring to pronouns?

45. The word the pronoun is replacing.

46. What are personal pronouns?

47. Personal pronouns stand for persons or things

48. What are the five demonstrative pronouns?

49. this/that/these/those/such

50. What are the four relative pronouns?

51. who/whoever/which/that

52. What is a conjunction?

53. A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence.

54. What are the seven coordinating conjunctions?

55. FANBOYS : F or- A nd- N or- B ut- O r- Y et- S o

56. What are interjections?

57. Interjections are words or phrases used to exclaim or protest or command.

58. Most interjections are treated as parenthetical elements, and are set of by what?

59. Commas

60. A forceful interjection, is followed by what?

61. Exclamation Point