Category 2 Category 6 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 Category 1 8 th Grade English Jeopardy
A word that names a person, place or thing.
Noun 100
Tells who or what the sentence is about.
Subject 200
A sentence that has two or more simple sentences joined together.
Compound Sentence 300
The step in the writing process where you fix misspelled words, sentence problems, and address any grammatical problems.
Edit 400
The sentence in the beginning of an essay that tells what the essay is about.
Thesis Statement 500
A word that expresses an action, a condition, or a state of being.
Verb 100
The step in the writing process in which you begin thinking, writing down ideas, and placing them in order.
Pre-write 200
The sentence in a paragraph that tells what the paragraph is about.
Topic Sentence 300
A verb that ends in “ing” and is being used as a noun.
Gerund 400
The step in the writing process where you create your final draft.
Publish 500
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun. It tells which one, what kind, or how many.
Adjective 100
Helps the main verb make a statement or express action.
Helping Verb 200
The step in the writing process where you begin to write the actual paper.
Draft 300
A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with its object.
Prepositional Phrase 400
The noun or other pronoun that the pronoun is standing in for.
Antecedent 500
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb. It tells how, when, where, and to what extent
Adverb 100
Words or groups of words that help a paper move from one idea to another and shows the relationship between those points.
Transition 200
The order in which things happened based on time.
Chronological Order 300
A clause that can stand alone as a sentence.
Independent Clause 400
A word that sounds the same but has a different meaning and/or spelling.
Homophone 500
A word that is used to take the place of a noun or another pronoun.
Pronoun 100
Tells something about the subject or what the subject does.
Predicate 200
The step in the writing process where you add and delete information and rearrange sentences as needed.
Revise 300
A word that connects two sentences together but also carries the characteristics of an adverb.
Conjunctive Adverb 400
The variations in a language that can change based on different regions or social classes.
Dialect 500
A word that relates its object to some other word in the sentence.
Preposition 100
A word or pair of words that connect other words or groups of words together.
Conjunction 200
A clause that can not stand as a sentence alone.
Subordinate/Dependant Clause 300
A word or phrase used to show strong feeling or emotion.
Interjection 400
A sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses.
Complex Sentence 500