English Grammar Vocabulary - Statistics

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Hint	Example	First Letter	Answer	% Correct
(part of speech) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.	The portions at the burger joint were humongous.	A	Adjective	97%
(part of speech) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.	Farley greedily scarfed up all the leftover spaghetti.	A	Adverb	95%
(part of speech) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences, and which shows how the two joined parts are related.	You must either roll doubles or go to jail.	C	Conjunction	70%
(part of speech) A word that functions as the name of an object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea.	mammal	N	Noun	70%
(part of speech) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.	defenestrate	V	Verb	69%
(part of speech) A type of word that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective.	He’s just not that into you.	P	Pronoun	64%
The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.	Odette bought the last sack of flour.	D	{Direct} object	59%
A noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a transitive verb (typically as a recipient), but is not the primary object.	After dinner, Cordelia showed her guests home movies of her trip to Pocatello.	I	{Indirect} object	57%
A verb form that functions as a noun.	Melvin always thought that brushing one’s teeth regularly was overrated.	G	Gerund	53%
A sentence that has two or more independent clauses, joined by a conjunction (such as 'but', 'and') and/or punctuation (such as ',').	Durward spoils the ending of every single whodunit I start to read, although I’ve asked him not to.	C	{Compound} sentence	51%
A shortened form of a word or word phrase, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.	can’t	C	Contraction	50%
A word or phrase that is a noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.	Beavis	P	{Proper} noun	50%
A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence, but functions as either a noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence.	As soon as I get a job, I’m going to move out of my mom’s basement.	D \| S	{Dependent \| Subordinate} clause	48%
(part of speech) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word.	You’d be surprised what goes on under the boardwalk!	P	Preposition	47%
A sentence that contains an independent clause as well as one or more dependent clauses, such as a relative clause, an adverbial clause, or a noun clause.	Despite not yet having a driver’s license, Kimmie often borrowed the family car when her parents went out with the neighbors.	C	{Complex} sentence	45%
A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and, in modern writing, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop (period) or other punctuation.	The lights are on, but nobody’s home.	S	Sentence	45%
(part of speech) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.	Egad! You scared me half to death!	I	Interjection	44%
The degree of comparison used when comparing the level of an attribute among three or more people, things or actions.	Having known them all since childhood, I can safely say that Phoebe is the vainest of the Murgatroyd sisters.	S	Superlative	42%
A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply.	What are the odds that you will still be sitting on that couch when I get home from work tonight?	I	{Interrogative} sentence	39%
A personal pronoun, having a form of "self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself.	I taught myself to play the accordion, even though my friends thought it was a nerdy thing to do.	R	{Reflexive} pronoun	39%
A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.	You should receive your Form W-2 by the end of January.	A \| H	{Auxiliary \| Helper \| Helping} verb	38%
A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; the “dictionary form” of a verb.	bloviate	I	Infinitive	37%
A written sentence that inappropriately joins two (or more) independent clauses into a single sentence, often with only a comma as separator (comma splice), which should be rendered either as separate sentences or as clauses joined more appropriately (such as by a semicolon or by a comma and coordinating conjunction).	I’m really angry with Alistair for pantsing me at the prom I was so embarrassed I had to leave!	R	{Run-on} sentence	30%
A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb.	A watched pot never boils.	P	Participle	27%
A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.	endless rounds of JELL-O^® shots	P	Phrase	24%
An action verb which does not take a direct object.	The angels wept when I auditioned for the church choir.	I	{Intransitive} verb	23%

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