Parts of Speech
What can modify a noun?
An adjective
What is the "who" or the "what" of the verb?
The subject
What must have a subject and a verb?
A clause
True or False?
Always capitalize the first word of a quotation.
True.
Identify the figurative language that is being used in the following sentence:
Her blonde hair shined like the sun.
Simile (like the sun).
What can modify a verb, adjective or other adverbs?
An adverb
What follows an action verb, is a noun or a pronoun, and is never in a prepositional phrase?
a direct object
Which type of clause is also known as a subordinate clause?
Dependent clause
What joins two clauses without a coordinating conjunction?
A semicolon
Identify the figurative language that is being used in the following sentence:
Her eyes were diamonds, sparkling in the sunlight.
Metaphor (eyes were diamonds).
Which type of word can show a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in a sentence?
A preposition
What takes a direct object?
A transitive verb
Which type of sentence must have at two or more independent clauses plus one or more dependent clauses?
Compound-complex
What is used to make words possessive and to make contractions?
Apostrophe
Identify the figurative language that is being used in the following sentence:
The suspicious security cam followed her every move, determined to catch her in the act.
Personification: The suspicious security cam followed her every move, determined to catch her in the act.
Which verbal can only act as a noun?
A Gerund
What type of phrase is a noun or pronoun (along with modifiers) that follows and renames another noun or pronoun?
Appositive phrase
Identify the dependent clause on the following sentence:
The students acted differently whenever a substitute taught the class.
The dependent clause is:
whenever a substitute taught the class
Add capitalization and punctuation.
joe likes pizza fred likes tacos
Correct punctuation and capitalization:
Joe likes pizza; Fred likes tacos.
Identify the figurative language that is being used in the following sentence:
He gets one three points shot in gym class and now he thinks that he’s Steph Curry.
Allusion: He gets one three points shot in gym class and now he thinks that he’s Steph Curry.
Identify the helping and the action verb(s) on the following sentence:
William will have been jumping all day.
William will have been jumping all day.
will have and been are the helping verbs while jumping is the action verb.
Identify the type of phrase on the following sentence:
Cracked from top to bottom, the mirror was now ruined.
Participle Phrase
Identify the following type of this sentence:
She completed her essay, but she wasn’t happy with it because it seemed rushed.
Compound-complex
She completed her essay, but she wasn’t happy with it because it seemed rushed.
Add correct punctuation and capitalization:
we moved to chicago illinois in 1977
Correct punctuation and capitalization:
We moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1977.
Identify the figurative language that is being used in the following sentence:
The big stairs led up to a big house with a big front door.
Repetition: The big stairs led up to a big house with a big front door.