Simple
Compound
Nouns
Dependent
Independent
100

This word means 'what the sentence is about'.

What is the subject?

100
The following sentence is an example of this type of sentence. "The detective and his partner chased the thief, but only the detective actually caught him".
What is a compound sentence (or joining two independent clauses)?
100
Cat, dog, book, ship, teacher are all examples of this part of speech.
What is a concrete noun?
100

The following description describes this type of clause: 'This has a subject and a predicate but does not make sense by itself.'

What is a dependent clause?

100
The following is an example of this type of clause: 'The cat sat on the mat.'
What is an independent clause?
200

All the words beginning from the verb make up this part of the sentence.

What is predicate?

200
The following shows one way of making this type of sentence. "The detective and his partner chased the thief; only the detective actually caught him".
What is one way of making a compound sentence (or joining independent clauses)?
200
Love, hate, peace, intelligence are all examples of this part of speech.
What is an abstract noun?
200

The following is an example of this type of clause. 'We gathered wood for a fire.'

What is an example of an independent clause?

200
This part of speech is missing from the following sentence: 'The cat and dog spaghetti.'
What is a verb?
300

Read the sentence: 'The cat and dog were sleeping on the rug.' The cat and dog make up the part of this sentence.

What is compound subject?

300
The following is an example of this type of sentence. 'The detective got a medal; the thief got ten years.'
What is a compound sentence?
300
New York, Tokyo, Seoul, James and John are examples of this part of speech.
What are proper nouns?
300
'After we ate' is an example of this type of clause.
What is an example of a dependent clause?
300
Read the sentence: Jason, Daisuke and all the members of Ms Matthew's EAP class like to write essays. 'Like to write essays' is an example of this.
What is a predicate?
400

From the sentence: 'The cat and dog were scratching and biting each other.' '...were scratching and fighting each other' make up this part of the sentence.

What is the compound predicate?

400
This sentence is an example of this type of sentence. 'Tom and Jill read about it in the newspaper.'
What is an example of a simple sentence?
400
Dogs, cats, and mice are words that show there are more than one and are examples of these types of nouns.
What are plural nouns?
400
These are examples of words that begin dependent clauses. They may come at the beginning of a sentence, in the middle, or at the end.
What are words like which, who, that, before, and since ?
400
Claire, Mai, Sunny and the EAP class love learning grammar. "Claire, Mai, Sunny an the EAP class' is an example of this.
What is a compound subject?
500

These are examples of two ways to combine independent clauses.

What is a semi-colon or a comma and coordinating conjunction?

500
Read the sentence: 'The weather warmed and improved in the south.' 'warmed and improved' is an example of this.
What is an example of a compound predicate?
500
Read the following paragraph: 'The ducks and the geese flew south. Some birds swam or hunted for food. The hunters and bird watchers followed the birds’ flight. Fog and heavy snow slowed their flying speed. The weather warmed and improved in the south'. There are 14 examples of these in this paragraph.
What are nouns?
500
Read the sentence: Some other campers that we met shared their campfire with us. "That we met' is an example of this.
What is a dependent clause?
500
The person who told us about a good campsite was a ranger. 'Who told us about this' is an example of this.
What is a dependent clause in the middle of a sentence?
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