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Grammar & Punctuation Rescue

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A grammar review game covering parts of speech, sentence types, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, and subject-verb agreement and tenses. Built for Grades 4-8. 25 ready-to-play clues, no prep needed. This is a Grades 4–8 English / ELA review game in a Jeopardy-style format: a teacher puts the board on one screen, teams pick clues by point value, and the class answers out loud — no student devices or accounts needed. Categories: Parts of Speech, Sentences & Fragments, Commas & Apostrophes, Quotation Marks, Agreement & Tenses.

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  • Parts of Speech

    What part of speech names a person, place, or thing?

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    Noun

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  • Sentences & Fragments

    What punctuation ends a telling sentence?

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    Period

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  • Commas & Apostrophes

    What punctuation separates items in a simple list?

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    Comma

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  • Quotation Marks

    What punctuation marks show someone's exact words?

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    Quotation marks

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  • Agreement & Tenses

    Which verb is correct in: The dog (bark/barks) at cars?

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    barks

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Parts of Speech

$100 — What part of speech names a person, place, or thing?
Noun
$200 — Which part of speech shows action or a state of being?
Verb
$300 — Which part of speech describes a noun or pronoun?
Adjective
$400 — Which part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or adverb?
Adverb
$500 — What part of speech shows position or relationship, like "under" or "beside"?
Preposition

Sentences & Fragments

$100 — What punctuation ends a telling sentence?
Period
$200 — What do we call a sentence that asks a question?
Interrogative sentence
$300 — What do we call an incomplete sentence missing a subject or predicate?
Fragment
$400 — What error is two sentences joined without proper punctuation or a conjunction?
Run-on sentence
$500 — What two main parts must every complete sentence have?
Subject and predicate

Commas & Apostrophes

$100 — What punctuation separates items in a simple list?
Comma
$200 — Which punctuation shows where letters are left out in a contraction?
Apostrophe
$300 — What punctuation should you add before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence?
A comma
$400 — To show that the book belongs to one student, what letters do you add to student?
's
$500 — Which word is correct for possession: its or it's?
its

Quotation Marks

$100 — What punctuation marks show someone's exact words?
Quotation marks
$200 — In American English, do commas and periods go inside or outside the closing quotation mark?
Inside
$300 — What punctuation separates a speaker tag from the quoted sentence?
Comma
$400 — What kind of quotation marks enclose a quote inside another quote?
Single quotation marks
$500 — If the quoted words are a full sentence, what should you do to the first word?
Capitalize it

Agreement & Tenses

$100 — Which verb is correct in: The dog (bark/barks) at cars?
barks
$200 — Which verb is correct in: The students (is/are) ready?
are
$300 — Which pronoun takes a singular verb: everyone or both?
everyone
$400 — What is the past tense of go?
went
$500 — Should you switch between past and present tenses within one paragraph?
No

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