1. Jeopardy – MS. South English
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Commas
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Final Jeopardy

2. 1 - 100 This is a word that replaces a person, place, or thing.
Pronoun

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Hooks up word, phrases, and clauses.
Conjunction

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Names a special person, place, thing, or idea, and it must be capitalized.
Proper noun

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What is this word’s part of speech: Now
Adverb

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5 easy linking verbs
Is, are, was, were, am

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Something that describes a noun
Adjective

8. 2 - $200
What is this word’s part of speech: Wow!
Interjection

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What is this word’s part of speech: glossy
Adjective

10. 2 - 400 This is a type of noun that we don’t need to capitalize
Common noun

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This type of noun: Lori’s
Possessive noun

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It’s the word that the sound makes
Onomatopoeia

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Here is an example: Meg was as quiet as a mouse.
Simile

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Here is an example: It was so hot the flies were dropping out of the sky with heatstroke.
Hyperbole

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Here is an example: Sally has a chip on her shoulder.
Idiom

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Here is an example: The calendar slapped me in the face with today’s deadline.
Personification

17. 4 - $100
Which words in this book title should be capitalized? dead girls don’t write letters
All of them

18. 4 - 200 This is the punctuation we use with the title of a poem.
Quotation marks

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My daughter has one dog. What part of speech is one?
Adjective

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What do you really want? What part of speech is really?
Adverb

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The new store will be open in the spring. Which word should be capitalized?
Spring

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Where should the comma be placed? The answer is 15,229 I think.
After 15,229

23. 5 - $200
Where should the comma be placed?
July
After 12

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Where should the comma be placed? Oh I don’t know.
After oh

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Where should the comma be placed? When we returned from summer break we had all grown.
Between break and we

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This is a list of words in a sentence form that needs to be separated by commas.
A series

27. Final Jeopardy
Who is your favorite teacher in all the land?
MS. SOUTH 