Sentences
A group of words that does not express a complete thought.
This type of clause expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence.
What is an independent clause.
Find the subject in the following sentence:
The ancient Romans portrayed important events in their murals.
Who are Romans.
Identify five pronouns.
Most verbs are action verbs, however this type of verb does not express an action. It connects the subject to a word that renames or describes it. For example,
Red is a bright color.
A group of words that contains both a subject and a verb, and expresses a complete thought.
What is a sentence.
This type of clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself as a sentence.
What is a subordinate or dependent clause
Find the predicate (verb) in the following sentence:
She painted for many years in New Mexico.
What is painted.
Identify the two nouns in the following sentence as either common or proper:
Amelia Earhart was a famous pilot.
What is Amelia Earhart (proper), and pilot (common).
Identify both the helping and main verbs in the following sentence:
She has taken painting classes.
What is has (helping verb) and taken (main verb).
This kind of sentence contains one independent clause and no subordinate clauses.
*HINT: complex, simple, or compound
What is a simple sentence.
Is the underlined clause in the following sentence independent or subordinate?
Before he went to his grandma's house, he baked her a cake and bought her flowers.What is a subordinate clause.
Identify both the subject and predicate in the following sentence:
Barbara Minette was born on October 2, 1953.
What is Barbara Minette and was born.
This is the name of the word that takes the place of a pronoun. For example, it in the following sentence
The concert was incredible, but it was too short.
What is an antecedent.
What is the past of the verb see.
What is saw.
This kind of sentence contains two independent clauses and no subordinate clauses.
*HINT: complex, simple, or compound
What is a compound sentence.
Find the independent clause in the following sentence:
I liked the new book because it was funny.
What is I liked the new book.
Find the subject in the following sentence:
Here is a picture of my family.
What is picture.
Find the direct object in the following sentence:
Billy threw the ball to Tony.
What is ball.
This is the past participle of play.
What is (had) played.
This kind of sentence contains one independent clause and at least 1 subordinate clause.
*HINT: complex, simple, or compound
What is a complex sentence.
Find the subordinate clause in the following sentence:
Dave, whose real name is David, is a really funny guy.
What is whose real name is David.
Find the subject in the following sentence:
Look at this old newspaper I found!
What is you (understood subject).
Which is correct:
My best friends are Hannah and (her, she).
What is she.
This is the present participle of do.
What is (is) doing.