Parts of Speech
This part of speech joins words or sentences together.
What is a conjuction?
This words means the opposite of pessimistic.
What is optimistic?
What is a compound sentence?
Define write and right.
Write - to use a pen or pencil to note something.
Right - opposite of left
When you use the article A, the next word should begin with a _______________.
What is a consonant?
The verbs that are used with a main verb.
What is a helping verb?
This word means gloomy and silent from anger.
What is sullen?
This type of sentence has all subject parts first and all predicate parts after the verb.
What is a natural order sentence?
Fix this sentence:
She seems confident that she's the right one four the job.
Four = For
Name 5 prepositions.
Answers vary.
Name the seven parts of speech we've learned already.
Noun, Adjective, Preposition, Conjunction, Verb, Adverb, Pronoun
This word means more than enough.
What is abundant?
This type of sentence has predicate words at the beginning of the sentence.
What is an inverted order sentence?
Fix this sentence:
There are only too ways two get to the school from the highway.
too = two
two = to
When you use the article "AN," the next word should begin with a _______________.
Give us an example of a phrase.
vowel
an elephant
Name all 7 conjuctions.
what are FOR, AND, NOR, BUT, OR, YET, SO
Blade: Knife:: Arm:______________
What is body?
This is the sentence that describes what a paragraph is about (in writing).
What is the topic sentence?
Define: hour and our
Hour - unit of time
Our - a possessive pronoun adjective
F stands for this type of sentence.
CD stands for this type of sentence.
What is a fragment?
What is a compound sentence?
These are the eight "be" verbs.
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
Wild: Untamed:: Soiled:______________
What is dirty?
These are the two ways to write a compound sentence.
1) With a comma and conjunction
2) With a semi-colon
Define weather and whether.
Weather - the conditions outside
whether - whether or not
What kind of sentence is this? What do we need to fix it?
I went to bed but I could not sleep.