This document contains a quiz on punctuation and grammar in the form of a Jeopardy game board. The game board includes 5 categories (Commas, Verb Use, Sentence Boundaries, Parts of Speech, Sentence Construction) with 5 questions of increasing value ($100-$500) under each category. The questions test a range of grammar and punctuation rules and concepts, and the document provides the question prompt and answer for each one. The final question is a Final Jeopardy question about punctuation marks.

1. Punctuation and Grammar Jeopardy
Commas
Verb
Use
Sentence
Boundaries
Parts of
Speech
Sentence
Construction
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Final Jeopardy: Punctuation marks

2. $100 Question from Commas
These are used along with
commas to combine two
independent clauses into one
sentence.

3. $100 Answer from Commas
What are coordinating conjunctions?
(or FANBOYS)

4. $200 Question from Commas
Commas are used to set off introductory
words or introductory “groups of words,”
which are called _________________.

5. $200 Answer from Commas
What are phrases (or clauses)?

6. $300 Question from Commas
Use commas to separate sentence items in a
________________.

7. $300 Answer from Commas
What is a series?

8. $400 Question from Commas
Commas should be used to set off
(restrictive or nonrestrictive)
elements in a sentence.

9. $400 Answer from Commas
What is nonrestrictive?

10. $500 Question from Commas
Commas should be used to set off
any nonessential, “parenthetical”
or added details in a sentence.
(true or false)

11. $500 Answer from Commas
What is “true”?

12. $100 Question from Verb Use
This quality distinguishes
a verb as a “regular” verb.

13. $100 Answer from Verb Use
What is an “ed” ending
in past tense?

14. $200 Question from Verb Use
The three primary verb tenses.

15. $200 Answer from Verb Use
What are past, present and future?

16. $300 Question from Verb Use
The letter which commonly ends
plural nouns and singular verbs.

17. $300 Answer from Verb Use
What is the letter “s”?

18. $400 Question from Verb Use
The rule or practice which stipulates
that singular nouns require singular
verbs and plural nouns require plural
verbs.

19. $400 Answer from Verb Use
What is subject/verb agreement?

20. $500 Question from Verb Use
The word “have” in the following
sentence:
“I have given this a great deal of
thought.”

21. $500 Answer from Verb Use
What is a helping verb?

22. $100 Question from Sentence
Boundaries
A group of words, punctuated as a sentence,
which does not express a complete thought.

23. $100 Answer from Sentence
Boundaries
What is a sentence fragment?

24. $200 Question from Sentence
Boundaries
Two simple sentences joined by
only a comma.

25. $200 Answer from Sentence
Boundaries
What is a comma splice?

26. $300 Question from Sentence
Boundaries
Two simple sentences combined
together with no internal punctuation.

27. $300 Answer from Sentence
Boundaries
What is a fused sentence?
(Or a run-on sentence?)

28. $400 Question from Sentence
Boundaries
Example: “When Moby Dick
was still a minnow.”

29. $400 Answer from Sentence
Boundaries
What is a sentence fragment?

30. $500 Question from Sentence
Boundaries
Example:
“Put the lime in the coconut, shake
them both together.”

31. $500 Answer from Sentence
Boundaries
What is a comma splice?

32. $100 Question from
Parts of Speech
Names a person, place, thing, or idea.

33. $100 Answer from
Parts of Speech
What is a noun?

34. $200 Question from
Parts of Speech
Word which can be used to take
the place of a noun in a sentence.

35. $200 Answer from
Parts of Speech
What is a pronoun?

36. $300 Question from
Parts of Speech
Word that describes an action or
occurrence or indicates a state of being.

37. $300 Answer from
Parts of Speech
What is a verb?

38. $400 Question from
Parts of Speech
A word which describes or modifies
a noun or a pronoun.

39. $400 Answer from
Parts of Speech
What is an adjective?

40. $500 Question from
Parts of Speech
A word which modifies a verb,
an adjective, or an adverb.

41. $500 Answer from
Parts of Speech
What is an adverb?

42. $100 Question from Sentence
Construction
Any group of words with its
own subject and predicate (verb).

43. $100 Answer from Sentence
Construction
What is a clause?

44. $200 Question from Sentence
Construction
A clause which could be punctuated
as a simple sentence.

45. $200 Answer from Sentence
Construction
What is an independent clause?

46. $300 Question from Sentence
Construction
A clause which does not express
a complete thought.

47. $300 Answer from Sentence
Construction
What is a dependent clause?
(OR: What is a relative clause?)

48. $400 Question from Sentence
Construction
Two or more independent clauses
joined into a sentence with correct
internal punctuation.

49. $400 Answer from Sentence
Construction
What is compound sentence?

50. $500 Question from Sentence
Construction
One dependent clause and
one independent clause
joined together into one
sentence.

51. $500 Answer from Sentence
Construction
What is a complex sentence?

52. Final Jeopardy: Punctuation
Punctuation mark which is preceded by an
independent clause and introduces
whatever follows it.

53. Final Jeopardy Answer
What is a colon?