Subjects/Predicates
Which typically comes first in a sentence, the subject or the predicate?
What is the subject?
Name any common noun
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Find the action verb in this sentence: The French probably invented tennis in about 1150.
What is invented?
Identify the subject pronoun used in the sentence: I went to the park with you.
What is I?
Identify the adverb in the sentence: Machu Picchu sits silently in the Andes.
Turn this fragment into a complete sentence: among the trees.
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Identify all of the proper nouns in this sentence: Radios were used to help rescue survivors of the shipwrecked Titanic.
What is Titanic?
What is football?
Fill in the blank in the sentence with the correct possessive pronoun: I bought a new book at the store, and I am happy it is all _______.
What is mine?
Use the superlative form of the adjective in parentheses: Remains of huts from about 120,000 years ago are the (old) buildings yet found.
What is oldest?
Identify the simple subject: All people change their environment.
What is people?
Add appropriate punctuation to make this possessive: the boys shoes
What is the boys' shoes?
Identify the indirect object in the sentence: Michael Jordan shows his teammates new shots.
What is teammates
Name the pronoun and its antecedent: The students read books in the library. They are focused.
What is they- pronoun, students antecedent?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence: Michelangelo was born in a small town.
What is in a small town?
Identify the complete predicate: Rangers explore and protect the forest.
What is explore and protect the forest?
Possessive or contraction? Elaine's going to the exhibit.
What is contraction?
Identify the main verb and helping verb in this sentence: The students are jumping rope now.
What is are jumping?
Choose the correct interrogative pronoun: To (who/whom) does Zeus give a gift?
What is whom?
Identify all conjunctions in the following sentence: Both London and Paris would be amazing to visit someday.
What is both, and?
What kind of word ALWAYS starts the predicate in a sentence?
What is a verb
Identify the abstract noun in this sentence: Thomas Edison was an inventor with so many ideas.
What is ideas?
Identify the linking verb: Our pitcher appears very nervous today.
What is appears?
Identify the indefinite pronoun in the sentence: Make sure you write down everything the teacher says during the lecture.
What is everything?
State the part of speech of each word in the following sentence: Wow! The statue is enormous.