Nouns / Pronouns
What are all of the subject pronouns?
What is wrong in the following sentence?
She deal with the challenges.
Deal should be deals - subject verb agreement
Give 5 examples of prepositions
answers will vary
What is the difference between a clause and a phrase?
A clause has a subject and a predicate, a phrase is just a group of words.
What is a simple sentence?
What is incorrect about this sentence:
Me and my friends played basketball.
It should be my friends and I since I is the subject pronoun and not me.
What is the difference between a transitive and intransitive verb?
Transitive verbs have direct objects and intransitive verbs do not
What do adverbs modify?
Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
Is the italicized part of the sentence an adverb clause or phrase?
The wedding was perfect although the catering arrived late.
Adverb Clause
True or False: both adjective and adverb clauses are dependent clauses
True
Their // Theirs
Their - possessive adjective
Theirs - possessive pronoun
What is the difference between a gerund and a participle?
A gerund is a verb acting as a noun and a participle is a verb acting as an adjective
What type of phrase is in the following sentence?
She ran around the bush.
Adverb phrase
Stranger Things, which broke records, is in its 4th season.
Adjective - which broke records
What type of sentence is the following? Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound Complex
I created a fictional world, and I wanted to travel through it.
Compound
What is the antecedent in the following sentence?
Ella dreamed of being a doctor, but she also wanted to be a lawyer.
Ella to She
What is an infinitive?
A verb form that can act as a noun or adverb
to + a verb
What is an adverbial noun?
A noun that modify an adverb
Example:
She ran for hours.
What are the subjects in the following sentence? Then name which belongs to the independent clause and which belongs to the dependent.
I binged Breaking Bad even though Walter White is terrible.
I, Walter White
TRUE or FALSE: the indirect object receives the direct object
True
Capitalize them!!!!
Is the following sentence an example of a gerund or participle?
Swimming is my favorite sport.
What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence and does it function as an adjective or adverb?
The dog with the big brown eyes wagged his tail.
With the big brow eyes, adjective
Do the following words usually start adjective or adverb clauses?
Who, Whom, Which, What, Where, That
Adjective clauses
TRUE or FALSE: All proper nouns should be capitalized
TRUE!!!