Sentence Patterns
Identify the sentence pattern:
Maria is kind.
What is S-LV-PA?
A group of words that has a subject, a verb, and expresses a complete thought...meaning it can stand on its own as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
Nouns that name a specific person, place, thing, or idea and are capitalized.
What are proper nouns?
The main verb along with any helping verbs in a sentence.
What is the complete verb?
A character type (like Odysseus) that recurs throughout world literature that storytellers use to present universal themes.
What is an archetypal character?
Identify the sentence pattern:
Jason accepted Christ as his Savior.
What is S-TrV-DO?
Two independent clauses incorrectly joined with a comma.
What is a comma splice?
Nouns like snow, water, and milk that answer the question "how much" and generally cannot be made plural.
What are noncount nouns?
Identify the complete verb in the following sentence:
Stella has been there before.
What is has been?
A story that contains an introductory narrative from which another story springs.
What is a frame story?
Identify the sentence pattern:
Mrs. Mayfield is a mom, wife, and teacher.
What is S-LV-PN?
A group of words that does not contain a subject or a verb and cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a phrase?
The pronouns this, that, these, those.
What are demonstrative pronouns?
Can be indicative, imperative, or subjunctive.
What is verb mood?
A conflict between two absolutes in which a person must make a choice that will violate one of those absolutes.
What is a moral dilemma?
Identify the sentence pattern:
The Lord gives us strength during difficult times.
What is S-TrV-IO-DO?
The following group of words would be identified as this.
I hit snooze on my alarm clock I was late for work.
What is a fused sentence?
Nouns that can be made plural, can have a number placed before them, and you can ask "how many" of them?
What are count nouns?
Identify the verb mood:
Had he studied more the test, he could have earned an A.
What is the subjunctive mood?
A type of extended metaphor that forms a story with two levels of meaning.
What is an allegory?
Identify the sentence pattern:
Michelle listens to advice from her coach and teammates.
What is S-InV?
The italicized portion of the sentence:
I raced to the dock.
What is a phrase?
The type of pronoun italicized in the sentence below:
Benjamin Franklin himself edited the last editions of the book.
What is an intensive pronoun?
Identify the verb mood:
When you leave class, put your supplies away neatly.
What is the imperative mood?
The normative character in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
Who is Dr. Heidegger?