Sentence Smarts
This type of sentence gives a command or makes a request.
What is an imperative sentence?
This type of verb tells what the subject does.
What is an action verb?
This type of noun names something you can experience with one or more of your five senses.
What is a concrete noun?
In the sentence She is reading her book, this word is the helping verb.
What is is?
This type of noun names a specific person, place, organization, day, month, or holiday and begins with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
Did you remember to finish your homework? is this type of sentence.
What is an interrogative sentence?
In the sentence Marcus slammed the locker shut, this is the action verb.
What is slammed?
Courage is this type of noun because it names an idea or quality.
What is an abstract noun?
In the sentence They have finished their homework, this word is the main verb.
What is finished?
This is the correct plural form of mouse.
What is mice?
In The nervous students waited quietly for the test, these are the simple subject and simple predicate.
What are students and waited?
In the sentence The team practices after school every day, the verb is in this tense.
What is present tense?
In the sentence The audience applauded loudly, audience is this type of noun.
What is a collective noun?
Which of these words is NOT one of the 23 common helping verbs: should, could, would, ought?
What is ought?
In the sentence The children's backpacks were lined up by the door, children's is both this number and this form of noun.
What are plural and possessive?
Although we studied for the test all weekend. is this type of sentence error.
What is a sentence fragment?
This is the past-tense form of carry in the sentence The students carry their books to class.
In The players' uniforms were hanging in the locker room, players' is this type of noun.
What is a possessive noun?
In the sentence The students could have completed the assignment earlier, these are the helping verbs.
What are could and have?
Correct every error in this sentence:
last july, the smiths traveled to washington, d.c. for independence day.
What is “Last July, the Smiths traveled to Washington, D.C., for Independence Day.”?
The final bell rang the students rushed out of the classroom.
Identify the sentence error AND correct it.
What is a run-on sentence?
The final bell rang. The students rushed out of the classroom.
or
The final bell rang, and the students rushed out of the classroom.
In the sentence The class will begin the test after announcements, this is the tense of the verb.
What is future tense?
Classify the gender of stallion, niece, artist, and dictionary, in that order. You must get ALL FOUR correct.
What are masculine, feminine, indefinite, and neuter?
In the sentence The players should have been practicing before the coach arrived, identify every helping verb and the main verb in the first verb phrase.
What are should, have, been, and practicing?
Correct both the noun form and capitalization in this sentence:
The womans visited atlanta, georgia, on monday.
What is “The women visited Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday.”?