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Round 1
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Easy
Grammar
Wimpy
Warm-ups
Challenging
Wicked
Grammar
Warm-ups
Evil
Box
Ms. Efford 
Of
Chocolates
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Easy
Wicked
Wimpy Challenging
Grammar Warm-ups Grammar Warm-ups
Evil
Box of
Ms. Efford Chocolates
Round 2
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Final
Jeopardy
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Abstract or Concrete noun?
respect
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What is abstract?
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The adjective that correctly
completes the following
sentence:
The road by my cousin’s
house is the (curvier,
curviest) one in the county.
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What curviest?
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The correct adverb to complete
the following sentence:
Ron hardly ever has (no, any)
extra change.
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What is any?
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The number of adverbs in the
following sentence:
Tammy and her sister always play
so nicely together.
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What is four?
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The correct pronoun to complete
the following sentence:
Pam and (she, her) donated blood.
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What is she?
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Which sentence is complete?
A. Although the World Cup
tournament is held every four
years.
B. Soccer is the most popular
sport in the world.
C. The only soccer player
allowed to handle the ball.
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What is B. Soccer is the most
popular sport in the world?
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Name five first person pronouns.
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What are I, me, mine, my, our, we,
ours, us?
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Which word correctly completes
the sentence?
Excited fans, eager to watch the
marathon, (line, lines) up early to
buy their tickets.
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What is line?
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Name the literary device being
used in the following sentence:
Huffing and puffing, the old
locomotive complained grumpily
as he trudged up the hill.
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What is personification?
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Which of the following sentences is
an example of imaginative writing?
A. A science fiction story about a
25th century amusement park
B. An article about the history of
theme parks
C. A biography of the man who
holds the world’s record for time
on a roller coaster
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What is A. A science fiction story
about a 25th century amusement
park?
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The antecedent of the
possessive pronoun in the
following sentence:
Someone shouted his name
over a loudspeaker.
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What is someone?
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The way in which the boldfaced word is
being used in the following sentence:
Jenny always earns money for her school
clothes.
A. Subject
B. Direct object
C. Indirect object
D. Object of the
preposition
E. Predicate nominative
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What is B. Direct Object?
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The way in which the boldfaced word is
being used in the following sentence:
Their grandparents live in Florida.
A. Subject
B. Direct object
C. Indirect object
D. Object of the
preposition
E. Predicate nominative
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What is A. subject?
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The way in which the boldfaced word is
being used in the following sentence:
Tad became a bricklayer.
A. Subject
B. Direct object
C. Indirect object
D. Object of the
preposition
E. Predicate nominative
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What is E. predicate nominative?
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The way in which the boldfaced word is
being used in the following sentence:
Stay away from the alley.
A. Subject
B. Direct object
C. Indirect object
D. Object of the
preposition
E. Predicate nominative
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What is D. object of the
preposition?
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The part of a book that lists, in
outline form, the information
contained in the book in the
order in which it appears.
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What is the table of contents?
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Find the intransitive verb in
the following sentence:
The barracuda swam away
before I could take a picture.
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What is swam?
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A phrase that means the
wheels of more than one bus.
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What is the buses’ wheels?
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Words that would be found on
a dictionary page with
guidewords skier and snowy.
A. Swat
D. Skimpy
B. Skid
E. Snowplow
C. Skewer
F. Slippery
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What are snowplow, and skimpy,
slippery?
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Identify the simple predicate in the
following sentence:
Rainfall in the Atacama Desert
measures about three-hundredths of
an inch per year.
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The helping verb(s) in the following
sentence:
He may have gone to a baseball game.
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What are may and have?
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The following sentence that shows
correct usage:
A. Tony Hawk is the skate boarder
whom has won many X-games
Championships.
B. Whoever wants to learn about the
sport of skateboarding, ask Tony.
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What is B. Whoever wants to
learn about the sport of
skateboarding, ask Tony. ?
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The prepositional phrase(s)
in the following sentence:
One of the robins has built
a nest in the pine tree.
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What are “of the robins” and “in
the pine tree”?
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The correct punctuation and
capitalization of the following
magazine article:
the youngest balloonist crosses
the continent
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What is “The Youngest
Balloonist Crosses the
Continent” ?
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Action or linking verb?
The guitarist is playing with
his father.
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What is action verb?
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The main meaning or idea of a
written selection.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Mood
Setting
Bias
Theme
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What is D. Theme ?
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The plural spelling of the noun
decoy.
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What is decoys?
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A reference source listing
synonyms for many words.
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What is a thesaurus?
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The correct verb to fill in the
following sentence correctly:
Each of the houses (play, plays)
in the tournament.
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What is plays?
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The connotation of a word.
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What are the positive or negative
words and feelings associated
with that term?
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Irregular
Nouns
Adjectives Adverbs
Pronouns Objects
Round 1
verbs
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Jeopardy
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Identify the correct verb:
Has the choir ever (sung, sang)
that tune?
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Identify the correct verb:
I could have (drank, drunk) a
gallon of water.
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Identify the correct verb:
The boxer (sprang, sprung) to his
feet during the count.
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Identify the correct verb:
Has the puppy (laid, lain) there
long?
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Identify the correct verb:
Records were (broke, broken)
during the Olympics.
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The possessive of tools that
belong to two carpenters
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What is the carpenters’ tools?
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Abstract or Concrete noun?
respect
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What is abstract?
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The correct spelling of the plural
noun bunch.
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Adjective or noun?
Georgette has a tea server in her
new apartment.
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What is an adjective?
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Common or proper noun:
GRANDSTAND
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What is a common noun?
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The correct degree of adjective:
This is the (more interesting,
most interesting) flower in the
exotic flower show.
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What is most interesting?
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The predicate adjective in the
following sentence:
The young lady is excited about her
new job.
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What is excited?
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The proper adjective in the
following sentence:
Nancy’s interesting trip to the quiet
moors of the English countryside
must have been fascinating.
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What is English?
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Limiting adjective or descriptive
adjective:
This cord is frayed.
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Function: Adjective or Noun?
Many had been invited.
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The correct adverb:
This light shines (more brightly,
most brightly) of all the lights in
our home.
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Identify the adverb:
Yearly the broker sends a stock
report to his customers.
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Identify the adverb:
Our pockets were absolutely
empty.
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Adverb or preposition?
The guard entered in through the
security door.
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Identify the correct adverb:
I (can’t can) hardly see the board
from here.
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Subject or predicate nominative:
The last ones to finish were we.
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The type of pronoun shown
below:
His house is painted yearly.
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What is a possessive pronoun?
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Identify the antecedent of the
pronoun:
Will and I don’t want our meals.
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The type of pronoun shown
below:
The lady washed the car herself.
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What is a reflexive pronoun?
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Identify the correct pronoun:
Dad gave the tickets to (who,
whom)?
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Identify the direct object:
The hikers carried their packs
across town.
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Identify the object of the
preposition:
Do you want me to go with you?
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What is you?
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Identify the indirect object:
The corporation owner gives that
charity organization a large
donation each year.
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Identify the predicate nominative:
Hannah is the girl in the striped
blouse.
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Identify the function of the
underlined word:
Some art enthusiasts purchased
them for their homes.
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What is a direct object?
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Jeopardy
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A gerund.
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What is a verb being used as a
noun, which always ends in
-ing?
Example:
Learning is an easy process for
some.
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