Kinds of Sentences
What kind of sentence ends with a question mark?
Interrogative
What are the common nouns in this sentence:
The teacher asked the students to be quiet.
teacher, students
What is the complete subject in this sentence:
The chubby penguin ate a lot of fish.
The chubby penguin
Which type of figurative language uses the words, "like" or "as" to compare two things?
Simile
Name 3 literary elements?
character, setting, plot, theme, point-of-view
What kind of sentence is a statement and ends with a period?
Declarative
What are all the nouns in this sentence?
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears in the football stadium.
Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, stadium
What is the complete predicate in this sentence:
The freckled face girl completed the assignment on time.
completed the assignment on time
What type of figurative language in this sentence:
Sister Susie sold seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration
What kind of sentence is this:
Harry, go pick up the pencil you dropped by the door.
Imperative
What kind of sentence ends with an exclamation point?
Exclamatory
Which proper nouns should be capitalized in this sentence:
The baseball team plays during the months of july and august.
July, August
What is the simple subject in this sentence:
The black haired, bearded man rode is motorcycle down the highway.
man
What type of figurative language is found in this sentence:
I have a million things to do tonight!
Hyperbole
What is a run-on sentence?
When two or more independent clauses (also known as complete sentences) are connected improperly.
What kind of sentences gives an order and ends with a period?
Imperative
Name the common noun and the proper noun in this sentence:
The young boys were playing in the middle of Main St.
boys, Main St.
What is the simple predicate in this sentence:
The elderly woman shopped for groceries at the downtown market.
shopped
What type of figurative language gives human qualities to a non human thing?
Personification
What type of figurative language is in this sentence:
It's raining cats and dogs outside.
Idiom
What does it mean when a sentence is a fragment?
It is not a complete sentence and is missing either a subject or predicate
What is an acronym?
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word.
What is the complete predicate in this sentence:
The old looking man went to the park to feed the pigeons.
went to the park to feed the pigeons
What is Onomatopoeia?
The formation of a word by the imitation of a sound made by or associated with that word.
What is Author's Purpose for writing?