Sentences/Skeletons
Complements
Retained Objects
Phrases and Clauses
Independent Elements and Sentence Classes
100

A group of words that expresses a complete thought

What is a sentence?
100

The two subjective complements are ___ and ___.

What are PN and PA?

100

T/F: A verb in the passive voice can have an object complement.

What is T?

100

A group of related words without a skeleton

What is phrase?

100

A substantive that identifies or explains another substantive

What is an appositive?

200

Every sentence can be divided into these 2 parts.

What are subject and predicate?

200

Subjective complements always follow _____ verbs.

What are linking?

200

T/F: If a sentence doesn't have an IO and DO originally, there can be no retained object.

What is T?

200

A group of words with a skeleton

What is a clause?

200

The 2 types of expletives (1 word each)

What are "it" and "there"?

300

The _______ consists of simple subject and simple predicate.

What is skeleton?

300

The two object complements are ___ and ___.

What are DO and IO?

300

Name the retained object: The farmers were given an uneasy feeling by the bad weather.

What is feeling (retained DO)?

300

The two types of single part of speech phrases

What are noun and verb?

300

A ____ sentence contains two or more independent clauses.

What is compound?

400

A _____ does not express a complete thought.

What is a fragment?

400

An objective complements follows and completes the ____.

What is DO?

400
List the retained OC: The little puppy was considered adorable by the children.

What is adorable?

400

Includes a skeleton but is not a complete sentence on its own

What is a dependent clause?

400

A _____ sentence gives the main ideas first and the details later.

What is loose?

500

Most ______ sentences are elliptical.

What is imperative? (because you is understood)

500

Three basic types of complements:

What are subjective, object, and objective?


500

Rewrite the sentence with a retained DO: Mrs. Langley gave us a wonderful surprise.

What is "We were given a wonderful surprise by Mrs. Langley"?

500

The three types of verbal phrases

What are gerund, infinitive, and participial?

500
Tell whether this sentence is natural, inverted, or mixed: "Across the big pond swam a big beaver."

What is inverted? (subject AFTER predicate)

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