Parts of Speech
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
In the sentence, "The cat slept," this is the subject.
What is cat?
In the sentence, "She went to the store," this is the type of phrase "to the store" is.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This type of clause can stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
This type of clause can stand alone but often follows a dependent clause to form a complex sentence.
What is an independent clause?
An independent clause can be as short as two words—subject and verb—yet still be a complete sentence!
In this sentence, "She runs quickly," this is the part of speech of "quickly."
What is an adverb?
In the sentence, "He plays the guitar," this is the direct object.
What is guitar?
In the sentence, "Running late, he skipped breakfast," this is the type of phrase "Running late" is.
What is a participial phrase?
In the sentence, "Because it was raining, we stayed inside," this is the type of clause "Because it was raining" is.
What is a dependent (subordinate) clause?
In complex sentences, this word often begins a dependent clause, such as "because," "although," or "when."
What is a subordinating conjunction?
Subordinating conjunctions can flip the sentence around! "When I arrived, they left" and "They left when I arrived" mean the same thing, but the clauses are reversed.
This part of speech connects words or phrases, such as "and," "but," or "or.'
What is a conjunction?
In the sentence, "They gave him a trophy," this is the indirect object.
What is him?
In the sentence, "I want to learn Spanish," this is the type of phrase "to learn Spanish" is.
What is an infinitive phrase?
In the sentence, "He sang while she played the piano," identify how many clauses there are.
What are two clauses?
In the sentence, "I bought a new book, and I read it all night," these two types of clauses are present.
What are two independent clauses?
The most famous example of two independent clauses joined by a conjunction comes from Julius Caesar: "I came, I saw, I conquered."
In te sentence, "We gave her a gift," this is the part of speech of "gave."
What is a verb?
This is the term for the main verb and all of its modifiers in a sentence.
What is the predicate?
This type of phrase includes a noun and its modifiers and acts as a single part of speech.
What is a noun phrase?
This type of sentence contains two or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or semicolon.
What is a compound sentence?
A sentence with two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause is called this.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
The longest sentences in English literature can be compound-complex sentences! A single sentence can stretch for hundreds of words if it has multiple clauses.
What is a preposition?
In the sentence, "The weather was bad," this is the complement.
What is bad?
In the sentence, "The boy wearing the red shirt is my friend," this is the type of phrase "wearing the red shirt" is.
What is an adjective phrase?
This type of sentence contains at least one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This punctuation mark is often used to separate two independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
Semicolons are sometimes called "super commas" because they let you join two related thoughts without using conjunctions.