Elements of a Sentence
This is the part of a sentence that includes the noun or pronoun and names the topic of the sentence.
What is the subject?
The catcher batted fifth. Fouled out, ending the inning.
What is: The catcher batted fifth. He fouled out, ending the inning.
T.S. Eliot is best known for his poetry, he also wrote several plays.
What is: T.S. Eliot is best known for his poetry. He also wrote several plays.
Present, past, and future are the three simple ones of these.
What are verb tenses?
These should always agree.
What are subjects and verbs?
This is the part of the sentence that includes a verb and says what the subject is or does.
What is the predicate?
The first two batters walked. Manny Machado again.
What is: The first two batters walked. Manny Machado walked again.
The school board debated the issue for three days they were unable to reach an agreement.
What is: The school board debated the issue for three days, but they were unable to reach an agreement.
The base form, the past, the past participle, and the present participle are know as this.
What are Verb Forms?
These are the two types of number agreement.
What is singular and plural?
This is a group of words containing a subject and a predicate. These can be either independent or dependent.
What is a clause?
Although the Yankees loaded the bases.
What is: The Yankees loaded the bases.
Psychologists study individuals' behavior, sociologists focus on group level dynamics.
What is: Psychologists study individuals' behavior; sociologists focus on group level dynamics.
This is used to express actions that took place at unspecified times in the past or that began in the past and continue into the present (or have relevance to the present). "I have talked" is an example of this tense.
What is Present Perfect?
This is two or more subjects joined by "and" and are generally plural.
What is a Compound Subject?
What is a group of words that makes sense but lacks a subject, a verb, or both and thus cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a phrase?
Some candidates spread nasty stories. About their opponents.
What is: Some candidates spread nasty stories about their opponents.
Initial critical responses to The Waste Land were mixed, the poem has been extensively anthologized, read, and written about.
What is: Although initial critical responses to The Waste Land were mixed, the poem has been extensively anthologized, read, and written about.
I am talking.
What is present progressive?
Anyone, anything, each, either, everyone, neither, nobody, no one, one, somebody, someone, and something and take a singular verb and are know as this.
What is an indefinite pronoun?
This type of phrase begins with a word such as "at," "from," "of," or "in" and usually ends with a noun or pronoun: at school, from home, in bed. It usually functions as an adjective or verb.
What is a preposition?
Put off by negative campaigning. Some people decide not to vote at all.
What is: Put off by negative campaigning, some people decide not to vote at all.
My mom made dinner I ate at home.
What is: My mom made dinner; I ate at home.
I will be talking.
What is future progressive?
Who, that, and which are know as this.
What is a Relative Pronoun?