Monday - Parts of Speech
Tuesday - Sentence Parts and Phrases
Wednesday - Clauses and Sentence Type
Thursday - Punctuation and Capitalization
Friday - Diagram
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What is a pronoun? Who is 1st, 2nd, and 3rd?
Takes place of a noun; refers to me/myself/I, you/yourself, and everyone else (him, her, they)
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What is the simple subject?
Can be an "understood you," Must be a noun, pronoun; The "who" or "what" of the verb
Ex. The dog likes to bark loudly/My friend Alex
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What must each clause have?
A subject and a verb
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What do we capitalize in a sentence?
Proper nouns, the word 'I,' the first word of each sentence, the first word of a quotation
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Where does the subject go on the diagram?
The left side of the T shape
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What is an adverb?
Modifies an adjective (really cute), verbs (run quickly), and other adverbs (very easily).
Not and never are ALWAYS adverbs
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What is a predicate?
Transitive verb, intransitive verb, and all linking verbs.
Ex. We love English
S Predicate
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What is an independent clause?
The main clause, must be included in every sentence, does not start with a relative pronoun (that, which, who, whom, whose), subordinating conjunction (after, since, before, while), or a noun clause identifier (that, who, what, when, where, why).
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When do we underline/italicize?
Underlining and italicizing mean the same thing. We underline titles of long things: newspapers, movies, novels, plays, etc.
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Where does the verb and direct object go?
the right and far right side of the T shape
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What is the difference between a helping verb and a linking verb?
Linking verb = links two words together (ex: is, be, am, are, was, etc).
Helping verb = helps an action verb or linking verb.; can be the same as a linking verb but depends on how many verbs are in the sentence (i.e, if the sentence has four verbs, the first three are helping).
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What is a direct object?
A noun or pronoun that is NEVER in a prepositional phrase, follows an action verb.
To find it, say: "subject, verb, what" AKA "I like English, I like what? I like English"
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What is a dependent clause? What are the subcategories of a dependent clause?
The subordinate clause, starts with a relative pronoun, subordinating conjunction, or a noun clause identifier.
Adv dep cl, adj dep cl, n dep cl
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When do we use quotation marks?
Titles of shorts things: short stories, poems, songs, articles, episodes of TV shows, etc
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What shape marks a prepositional phrase AND where does the prep go?
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Tenses often refer to action verbs (av) or adverbs (adv). Name the tenses and provide an example word in its different variations.
Past (jumped), present (jump), future (will jump)
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What is an appositive/appositive phrase?
A noun or pronoun that follows and renames another noun or pronoun.
Ex. We will read the book To Kill a Mockingbird
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What are the different purposes of a sentence?
Declarative (dec) = makes a statement and ends in a period .
Interrogative (int) = asks a questions and ends in a question mark ?
Imperative (imp) = gives a command and ends in a period .
Exclamatory (exc) = expresses strong feelings and ends in an exclamation point !
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What are the comma rules for a city and state?
We moved to Alachua, FL last year.
We are traveling to Madrid, Spain over the summer.
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How do we include an appositive?
In parenthesis 
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What is a preposition AND what is the difference between the category FANBOYS and its umbrella term?
Preposition shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun OR a pronoun and some other word in the sentence. EX: Sally went across the field. Prepositional phrase = across the field
Conjunctions join phrases or clauses; FANBOYS are present in Coordinating Conjunctions (CC) and is an acronym for the words: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
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What is a predicate nominative?
A noun or a pronoun which follows a linking verb and renames the subject.
To locate the pn, say "subject, linking verb, what or who? EX: He is a nice guy. He is what? guy
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What are the different sentence types which we have identified thus far?
Simple sentence (ss) = one independent clause
Compound sentence (cd)= two or more independent clauses
Complex sentence (cx) = one independent clause + one or more dependent clause
Compound - complex sentence (cd-cx) = two or more independent clauses + one or more dependent clause
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What are the rules for a comma with a nda?
Comes before or after the noun of direct address.
Tom, would you hand me the phone? OR Please don't sit there, Sue.
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Where do we put an interjection or an nda?
Outside of the clause, separate from the rest of the diagram