Sentences
This sentence type often has an understood subject of You.
What is an imperative sentence?
The simple subject in the sentence below:
Mindy was late for work again today.
What is Mindy?
The type of noun that cannot be perceived with the five physical senses.
What are abstract nouns?
An action verb that does not have a direct object.
What is an intransitive verb?
The genre that describes a story that is usually anonymous and passed along by word of mouth.
What is folktale?
Consider the error. We would call the group of words below a ___________.
The Andes Mountains, the longest chain of mountains above sea level in the world.
What is a fragment?
The complete predicate in the following sentence:
Christmas break starts in a few days.
What is starts in a few days?
What are compound nouns?
The type of verb italicized below:
The warmth from the fire feels amazing!
What is a linking verb?
A character who experiences change/growth throughout a story.
What is a developing character?
Two independent clauses put together with no joining words or punctuation.
What is a fused sentence?
The type of conjunction joining the compound subject below:
Either Ben or Isaac need to complete the remainder of the work.
What are correlative conjunctions?
Nouns like herd, crowd, team.
What are collective nouns?
When the subject of the sentence is receiving the action of the verb.
What is passive voice?
This occurs when a character is rewarded for good actions or punished for bad ones.
What is poetic justice?
Identify the sentence pattern:
The settlers brought him evidence of their adventures.
What is S-TrV-IO-DO?
The type of predicate shown below:
Nancy slept in, ate breakfast, and walked the dog.
What is a compound predicate?
Nouns that can be made plural, can have a number value put in front of them, and you can ask "how many"
Identify the verb mood:
Please hand me your homework.
What is the imperative mood?
A reference within a story to something outside the word
What is an allusion?
The name for a sentence written like the one below:
Down the narrow passage crept the anxious children.
What is inverted order?
The simple subject of the following sentence:
There are well-known national parks in the region.
What is parks?
Count or noncount?
mom
What is count?
Identify the verb mood:
I wish I were more prepared for my midterm.
What is the subjunctive mood?
An altered version of an author's original work that has changed for reasons such as length or readability.
What is an adaptation?