Sentences
A sentence that can stand alone as a simple sentence.
What is an independent clause?
I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they
What are subject pronouns?
Groups of words that can be taken away without changing the meaning of the sentence.
What is a nonrestrictive element?
A word that shows a relationship between a noun/pronoun and another word in a sentence.
What is a preoposition?
A statement that ends with a period.
What is a declarative sentence?
Although he was rich, he was still unhappy.
What is a complex sentence?
Me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them
What are object pronouns?
Fancy that's my cat's name likes to chase mice.
Identify the nonrestrictive element and punctuate correctly.
Fancy, that's my cat's name, likes to chase mice.
Dashes and parentheses are also considered correct.
The girl was sitting in the chair.
Identify the preposition.
In
A question which ends with a question mark.
What is interrogative?
After, although, as long as, because, before, provided, since
What are subordinating conjunctions?
Pronouns that show ownership
What are possessive pronouns?
With nonrestrictive elements, commas do what action?
What is a pause?
Kenzlee was sitting beside her friend.
Identify the prepositional phrase.
Beside her friend.
A command.
What is imperative?
True or false: If the dependent clause comes before the independent clause in a compound sentence, a comma must follow the dependent clause.
True
The noun that the pronoun is referring to.
What is an antecedent?
Dashes and parentheses do what actions with non restrictive elements?
Dashes interrupt and parentheses whisper.
The noun that the preposition is referring to.
What is a run-on sentence?
A sentence that contains an independent clause, a dependent clause, and a subordinating conjunction.
What is a complex sentence?
Max went to the store. He bought groceries. What is the antecedent?
Max
A noun or pronoun that follows another noun or pronoun, and provides detail and extra information to the sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence.
What is an appositive?
Please drop me off near the lake.
Identify the object of the preposition.
Lake
A sentence that shows excitement and ends in an exclamation point.
What is exclamatory?