Parts of Speech
A person, place or thing
What is a noun?
Punctuation that ends a question.
What is a question mark?
A sentence with one independent clause
What is a simple sentence?
What the sentence is about
What is the subject?
A noun that a pronoun refers to.
What is an antecedent?
An action or state of being
What is a verb?
Punctuation mark that goes between two independent clauses with a conjunction.
What is a comma?
A sentence that asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
The noun or pronoun being acted upon.
What is the direct object?
A group of words that acts as a single part of speech but lacks a subject and a predicate
What is a phrase?
A word that modifies a verb, adjective or adverb.
What is an adverb?
Punctuation that goes between two independent clauses without a conjunction?
What is a semicolon?
A sentence that has two or more independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
The noun or pronoun receiving the direct object.
A verbal that ends in -ing and acts like a noun.
What is a gerund?
A word that shows a relationship between a noun and the rest of the sentence.
What is a preposition?
Punctuation mark that goes at the end of an independent clause before a list.
What is a colon?
A sentence that contains at least one dependent clause and one independent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
A clause with a subject and a verb that cannot stand on its own.
What is a dependent clause?
A type of sentence in which the subject receives the action.
What is passive voice?
A word that connects words, phrases or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
Punctuation mark that goes at the beginning and end of a quotation.
What are quotation marks?
A sentence that contains at least one dependent clause and more than one independent clause.
What is a compound complex sentence?
A word or phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
The words the, a, and an.
What are articles?