Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This sentence type has one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
What is a fragment?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so are examples of these.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
This part of speech replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
In “The fluffy cat slept on the couch,” this word is the adjective.
What is "fluffy"
“I wanted pizza, but my brother wanted tacos.” is this type of sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
"I finished my homework I watched TV" is this type of sentence error.
What is a run-on sentence?
For, and, nor, but, yet, and so are known by this acronym.
What is FANBOYS?
In “Maria jumped over the puddle,” this word is the action verb.
What is "jumped"?
In “Jordan quickly finished his assignment,” this word is the adverb.
What is quickly?
“When the bell rang, the students packed their bags.” is this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
Adding a subject and complete thought would fix this error: “Because I was tired.”
What is a fragment?
This conjunction best completes the sentence: “I wanted to go outside, ___ it was raining.”
What is "but"?
The word “is” belongs to this type of verb.
What is a being verb?
In “The nervous student answered the question,” “nervous” is this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
A sentence with two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction is called this.
What is a compound sentence?
“After the basketball game.” is incomplete because it is missing this.
What is an independent clause/complete thought?
In “Wow! That roller coaster was terrifying,” this word is an interjection.
What is "wow!"?
This part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
In “She quietly opened the door,” these three words are the pronoun, adverb, and action verb.
What are "she", "quietly", and "opened"?
In “Because the bus was late, I missed the beginning of class,” “Because the bus was late” is this type of clause.
What is a dependent clause?
"Wow i forgot my homework i left it on the kitchen table" contains two major errors.
What is run-on sentence and capitalization?
This FANBOYS conjunction shows contrast and could replace “but” in some sentences.
What is yet?
In “Oh no! The extremely tired student slowly walked into class,” these two words are adverbs.
What are extremely and slowly?