Crazy for Clauses
Fun with Phrases
Sentence Structure
Sentence objects and complements
Subject and Predicates
100
A group of words that contain a subject and a verb
What is a clause?
100
A group of words that begin with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun
What is a prepositional phrase?
100
a sentence that has two or more independent clauses
What is a compound sentence?
100
an adjective that follows a linking verb and further describes the subject.
What is a predicate adjective?
100
two or more verbs or verb phases that are joined by a conjunction and have the same subject
What is a compound predicate?
200
a clause that has a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
200
a phrase that starts with a verb form usually preceded by the word "to"
What is an infinitive phrase?
200
a sentence that has only one independent clause and no subordinate clauses.
What is a simple sentence?
200
answers the question "what?" after an action verb
What is the direct object?
200
simple subject and all the words that modify it
What is a complete subject?
300
a subordinate clause that modifies a verb, adjective, or an adverb.
What is an adverb clause?
300
A phrase that begins with a verb form ending in "ing" and is used the same way a noun is used.
What is a gerund phrase?
300
A sentence that has more than one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause.
What is a complex-compound sentence?
300
answers the question "to whom?", "to what" or "for what" after an action verb.
What is an indirect object?
300
verb or verb phrase that expresses the essential thought about the subject of the sentence.
What is a simple predicate (the verb)
400
a subordinate clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective clause?
400
a phrase that begins with a noun or pronoun placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or give additional info about it.
What is an appositive phrase?
400
a group of words that fails to be a sentence because it doesn't contain an independent clause.
What is a sentence fragment?
400
noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and further identifies the subject
What is a predicate noun?
400
two or more simple subjects that are joined by a conjunction and have the same verb.
What is compound subject?
500
a subordinate clause that is used as a noun.
What is a noun clause?
500
a phrase that begins with a verb form that is used as an adjective
What is a Participial phrase?
500
A sentence that has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
500
A noun or a pronoun that follows a preposition and completes its meaning.
What is the object of a preposition?
500
Principle noun or pronoun that tells what a sentence is about
What is a simple subject?
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