Parts of Speech Crossword
Across
- 1. used to describe (or modify) a noun or a pronoun
- 5. nouns that refer to more than one noun; usually ends is -s or -es
- 8. nouns that refer to class/type; the first letter is not capitalized unless at the beginning of a sentence
- 9. pronouns that do not specifically identify the noun they are referring to
- 10. nouns that we cannot see, touch, or detect readily through our senses
- 12. the noun or pronoun that a pronoun replaces
- 14. person, place, thing, or idea
- 15. nouns that are collection or group of things
- 18. pronouns that replace possessive nouns
- 20. adjectives that call up images, tone, and feelings
Down
- 1. a verb that tells what the subject DOES
- 2. a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun
- 3. nouns we can see, touch, or detect through our senses
- 4. a, an, the
- 6. a verb that tells what subject is; expresses a state of being
- 7. expresses action or a state of being
- 11. pronouns that refer to specific nouns; specifies number, gender, case, and POV
- 13. adjectives used to indicate specific things (this, that, these, those)
- 16. a verb used with a main verb to help express the main verb further
- 17. particular nouns; the first letter is ALWAYS capitalized
- 19. nouns that refer to one noun