What Am I?

Punctuation

100

I come before and after an appositive.

A comma

200

I come at the end of a sentence.

A period

300

I sometimes come after a conjunctive adverb, I am not a period nor a comma.

a semicolon

400

You add me to the end of a phrase or a sentence when you express a feeling.

an exclamation mark (!)

500

You add me when you provide an example of something.

a colon (:)

Verb Tenses

100

I am used when the doer of the action is unknown, or not important. 

Passive Voice

200

I am used when you talk about an action that started in the past but continues in the present.

Present Perfect

300

I am a verb tense used to talk about an action that was in progress at a definite period in the past.

Past Progressive Tense

400

I am a verb tense used to talk about daily routines and facts.

Present Simple Tense

500

I am used to talk about the relations of completed actions in the past.

Past Perfect

Parts of Speech

100

I am a part of speech that describe nouns and pronouns. 

Adjective

200

I am a part of speech that names a person, a thing, a place and an idea

Noun

300

I am a part of speech that provides information about how, when, where, why, or to what extent something happened. 

An adverb

400

 a word that shows the relationship between that noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence

 A preposition

500

I am  a word used to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences 

A conjunction

Sentence Structure

100

I have a verb and a subject but I am not a sentence. What am I?

Dependent Clause

200

I usually come at the end of the sentence to add more information about time. I should include a preposition. What am I?

Prepositional phrase of time

300

I connect clauses and sentences. I am a part of speech. What am I?

Conjunctions

400

I sometimes start with a verb. What am I?

Question

500

I have two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction. What am I?

Compound Sentences