Academic Language Quiz 1

word that describes or modifies nouns

• adjective

• adverb

• pronoun

• verb

modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb, often ends in "ly"

• adjective

• noun

• adverb

• conjunction

words that name people, places, things, or ideas

• pronoun

• noun

• adjective

• verb

words that express an action or state of being

• conjunction

• pronoun

• verb

• adjective

words that join other words or groups of words (and, but, or, so, yet)

• conjunction

• connotation

• verb

• adjective

a word that is used instead of a noun of noun phrase

• adjective

• conjunction

• pronoun

• verb

Which is an example of an adjective?

• house

• cold

• run

• slowly

Which is an example of an adverb? There might be more than one!

• playfully

• tomorrow

• skip

• him/her

Which is an example of a noun?

• sad

• basketball

• and

• tall

Which is an example of a verb? There might be more than one.

• is

• talk

• landscape

• short