Grammar jeorpardy 2
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This document contains a quiz on punctuation and grammar in the form of a Jeopardy game board. The game board includes 5 categories (Commas, Verb Use, Sentence Boundaries, Parts of Speech, Sentence Construction) with 5 questions of increasing value ($100-$500) under each category. The questions test a range of grammar and punctuation rules and concepts, and the document provides the question prompt and answer for each one. The final question is a Final Jeopardy question about punctuation marks.
Grammar jeorpardy 2
- 1. Punctuation and Grammar Jeopardy Commas Verb Use Sentence Boundaries Parts of Speech Sentence Construction Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy: Punctuation marks
- 2. $100 Question from Commas These are used along with commas to combine two independent clauses into one sentence.
- 3. $100 Answer from Commas What are coordinating conjunctions? (or FANBOYS)
- 4. $200 Question from Commas Commas are used to set off introductory words or introductory groups of words, which are called _________________.
- 5. $200 Answer from Commas What are phrases (or clauses)?
- 6. $300 Question from Commas Use commas to separate sentence items in a ________________.
- 7. $300 Answer from Commas What is a series?
- 8. $400 Question from Commas Commas should be used to set off (restrictive or nonrestrictive) elements in a sentence.
- 9. $400 Answer from Commas What is nonrestrictive?
- 10. $500 Question from Commas Commas should be used to set off any nonessential, parenthetical or added details in a sentence. (true or false)
- 11. $500 Answer from Commas What is true?
- 12. $100 Question from Verb Use This quality distinguishes a verb as a regular verb.
- 13. $100 Answer from Verb Use What is an ed ending in past tense?
- 14. $200 Question from Verb Use The three primary verb tenses.
- 15. $200 Answer from Verb Use What are past, present and future?
- 16. $300 Question from Verb Use The letter which commonly ends plural nouns and singular verbs.
- 17. $300 Answer from Verb Use What is the letter s?
- 18. $400 Question from Verb Use The rule or practice which stipulates that singular nouns require singular verbs and plural nouns require plural verbs.
- 19. $400 Answer from Verb Use What is subject/verb agreement?
- 20. $500 Question from Verb Use The word have in the following sentence: I have given this a great deal of thought.
- 21. $500 Answer from Verb Use What is a helping verb?
- 22. $100 Question from Sentence Boundaries A group of words, punctuated as a sentence, which does not express a complete thought.
- 23. $100 Answer from Sentence Boundaries What is a sentence fragment?
- 24. $200 Question from Sentence Boundaries Two simple sentences joined by only a comma.
- 25. $200 Answer from Sentence Boundaries What is a comma splice?
- 26. $300 Question from Sentence Boundaries Two simple sentences combined together with no internal punctuation.
- 27. $300 Answer from Sentence Boundaries What is a fused sentence? (Or a run-on sentence?)
- 28. $400 Question from Sentence Boundaries Example: When Moby Dick was still a minnow.
- 29. $400 Answer from Sentence Boundaries What is a sentence fragment?
- 30. $500 Question from Sentence Boundaries Example: Put the lime in the coconut, shake them both together.
- 31. $500 Answer from Sentence Boundaries What is a comma splice?
- 32. $100 Question from Parts of Speech Names a person, place, thing, or idea.
- 33. $100 Answer from Parts of Speech What is a noun?
- 34. $200 Question from Parts of Speech Word which can be used to take the place of a noun in a sentence.
- 35. $200 Answer from Parts of Speech What is a pronoun?
- 36. $300 Question from Parts of Speech Word that describes an action or occurrence or indicates a state of being.
- 37. $300 Answer from Parts of Speech What is a verb?
- 38. $400 Question from Parts of Speech A word which describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun.
- 39. $400 Answer from Parts of Speech What is an adjective?
- 40. $500 Question from Parts of Speech A word which modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.
- 41. $500 Answer from Parts of Speech What is an adverb?
- 42. $100 Question from Sentence Construction Any group of words with its own subject and predicate (verb).
- 43. $100 Answer from Sentence Construction What is a clause?
- 44. $200 Question from Sentence Construction A clause which could be punctuated as a simple sentence.
- 45. $200 Answer from Sentence Construction What is an independent clause?
- 46. $300 Question from Sentence Construction A clause which does not express a complete thought.
- 47. $300 Answer from Sentence Construction What is a dependent clause? (OR: What is a relative clause?)
- 48. $400 Question from Sentence Construction Two or more independent clauses joined into a sentence with correct internal punctuation.
- 49. $400 Answer from Sentence Construction What is compound sentence?
- 50. $500 Question from Sentence Construction One dependent clause and one independent clause joined together into one sentence.
- 51. $500 Answer from Sentence Construction What is a complex sentence?
- 52. Final Jeopardy: Punctuation Punctuation mark which is preceded by an independent clause and introduces whatever follows it.
- 53. Final Jeopardy Answer What is a colon?