Sentences
This type of sentence often has an understood subject of you.
What is an imperative sentence?
A group of words that has a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought (also known as a dependent clause).
What is a fragment?
An action verb that does not have a direct object.
What is an intransitive verb?
Nouns made of more than one word like highway, backpack, and mother-in-law.
What are compound nouns?
An oral, public communication that can have a variety of purposes.
What is a speech?
Identify the complete subject:
The true meaning of Christmas is focused on the birth of Jesus.
What is the true meaning of Christmas?
The name of this type of error:
I woke up hungry, I ate a big breakfast.
What is a comma splice?
The type of verb that joins the subject to a predicate noun or predicate adjective.
What is a linking verb?
Nouns that cannot be perceived with the five physical senses.
What are abstract nouns?
A work that shows how a young person begins to grow up and mature.
What is a coming-of-age story?
Identify the simple subject in the sentence:
Have you ever tried peppermint in your hot chocolate?
What is you?
The name for a sentence that has two independent clauses pushed together without any joining words or appropriate punctuation.
What is a fused sentence?
The type of verb italicized below:
Mrs. Mayfield was born in Nashville.
What is a helping verb?
Nouns like herd, team, crowd, collection that identify a group of things.
What are collective nouns?
The element of plot that introduces the conflict and sets everything into motion.
What is the inciting incident?
The name for the FANBOYS.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
The name of the conjunction(s) in the sentence below:
Either Tom or Ed need to finish the project.
What are correlative conjunctions?
Identify the sentence pattern:
Blair decorated the cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles.
What is S-TrV-DO?
Nouns that can be made plural, can have a number before them, and you can ask "how many"?
What are count nouns?
The three possible purposes of a speech.
What is to inform, to inspire, to persuade?
What we call a sentence written like the one below:
Down the passage crept the anxious kids.
What is inverted order?
The name for the type of sentence error shown:
Because I was already running late, and I stopped for coffee.
What is a fragment?
Identify the sentence pattern:
The blanket feels so soft!
What is S-LV-PA?
mom
What is count?
Brother's is pride in "The Scarlet Ibis"
What is a character flaw?