Subject/ Predicate
Sentence/ Fragment
Possessive Nouns
Types of Sentences
Thinking Questions
100
Jumped over the moon. This sentence is missing...
What is the subject?
100
Karla loves to go shopping.
What is a complete sentence?
100
Possessive form of fly
What is fly's?
100
The school bus is filled with children.
What is a declarative sentence?
100
What word tells whom or what the sentence is about? (This questions helps us to identify...)
What is identifying the subject?
200
Everyone in the class. This sentence is missing...
What is the predicate?
200
Carried me up to the fourth floor.
What is a sentence fragment?
200
Possessive form of school & boy
What is school's and boy's?
200
Is the school bus filled with children?
What is an interrogative sentence?
200
What word tells what the subject is or does? (This questions helps us to identify...)
What is identifying the predicate?
300
All of the girls enjoy reading books. The simple predicate in the sentence is...
What is enjoy?
300
April and the other girls all day long.
What is a sentence fragment?
300
Possessive form of women and elephants
What is women's and elephants'?
300
Throw that away!
What is an exclamatory sentence?
300
Does this group of words express a complete thought? (this questions helps us to identify...)
What is identifying a complete sentence?
400
Cried after his toy broke. Complete the sentence and identify what is missing.
What is (a boy's name) and the subject?
400
A complete sentence always contains these
What are a subject and a predicate?
400
A possessive noun does this
What is shows possession/ ownership?
400
Take the garbage outside.
What is an imperative sentence?
400
We can use these thinking questions when trying to identify if a sentence is declarative or imperative.
What is ... Does this sentence make a statement? and Does this sentence give a command?
500
The simple predicate.... The simple subject...
What is tells what the subject is or does? What is tells who or what the sentence is about?
500
A sentence does this, but a sentence fragment does not.
What is express a complete thought?
500
Re-write the following sentence using a possessive noun The balls rolled down the hill. The balls belonged to the teachers.
What is The teachers' balls rolled down the hill.
500
These clues help us identify what type of sentence we're reading.
What is a period and making a statement for declarative, an exclamation point and showing strong emotion for exclamatory, a question mark and asking something for interrogative, and a period and giving a command for imperative?
500
How do thinking questions help us in grammar?
What is they help guide our thinking or help us remember what clues to look for in sentences.
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