Grammar and parts of speech

The eight parts of speech plus the grammar words that show up in every writing lesson: subject, predicate, synonym, homophone, contraction, prefix, suffix and more. Twenty-four clues, each with an example, so students practice spotting the idea rather than reciting a definition.

Games with this list

• Clue Bingo
• Match Up
• Summit Scramble
• I Have, Who Has?
• Talk Around It
• Act, Draw or Say
• Claim the Grid
• Quiz Night

The list

	Clue	Answer
1	A person, place, thing or idea	Noun
2	An action word, like run or think	Verb
3	Describes a noun, like big or blue	Adjective
4	Describes a verb, like quickly or softly	Adverb
5	Takes the place of a noun, like she or it	Pronoun
6	Shows where or when, like under or after	Preposition
7	Joins words or ideas, like and, but or or	Conjunction
8	A word that shows strong feeling, like Wow!	Interjection
9	The words a, an and the	Article
10	Who or what a sentence is about	Subject
11	The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does	Predicate
12	A complete thought with a subject and a verb	Sentence
13	A group of sentences about one main idea	Paragraph
14	A word that means the same, like happy and glad	Synonym
15	A word with the opposite meaning, like hot and cold	Antonym
16	Sounds the same but is spelled differently, like their and there	Homophone
17	Two words joined together, like sunflower	Compound word
18	Two words shortened with an apostrophe, like can't	Contraction
19	Added to the start of a word, like un- or re-	Prefix
20	Added to the end of a word, like -ful or -less	Suffix
21	More than one, like cats or children	Plural
22	The name of a specific person or place; it starts with a capital letter	Proper noun
23	Ends a sentence that asks something	Question mark
24	Shows missing letters or that something belongs to someone	Apostrophe

More english topics

• Synonyms
• Opposites (antonyms)
• Literary terms