Sentence Parts
This is the preposition in the following sentence:
Luis ran across the street.
What is "across the street?"
This is the nearest border city in Mexico to Los Angeles.
What is Tijuana.
His nickname is based on his laugh.
Who is Yuk Yuk?
This was kept in a locker, resembling a dried piece of fruit?
What is the shop teacher's finger?
An action or state of being.
This is the verb in the following sentence.
The weather is cold today.
What is the word "is?"
This city is east of the LA river, incorporated to relocate Mexican Americans from downtown LA.
What is East Los Angeles?
She made Luis get a job when he was nine.
Who is Luis's mom?
This is a type of outdoor movie theatre that the boys attempted to rob.
What is a drive-in movie, or drive in?
A word at the beginning of a phrase that shows direction, location, or time in relation to a noun at the end of the phrase.
What is a preposition?
Identify the dependent clause in the following sentence.
Although they were poor, the family succeeded with hard work and education.
What is "although they were poor?"
This is the city in the hilly area where white people from Oklahoma and Arkansas blended with Mexican Americans after the Great Depression?
What is San Gabriel?
He was at one time a principal and a Spanish teacher.
Who is Luis's dad?
After making his mom angry again, Luis was kicked out and forced to live on this street in LA.
What is Spanish Broadway and or "el centro?"
A word that joins other words or parts of a sentence together, such as "and," "but," and "or."
What is a conjunction.
Identify the independent clause/clauses in the following compound sentence.
The Super Bowl is Sunday, and I'd like to bet you pushups on the outcome.
What is... they are both independent clauses because a compound sentence has two independent clauses joined by a comma and a conjunction?
This is the city on the beach where Luis and his friends were swimming near the rocky coves before the surfers and police showed up.
What is Huntington Beach?
He was criticized by other Mexican students for becoming a good student and succeeding in school.
Who is Rano, Luis's brother?
This is the name of the first high school Luis attended, "a Depression-era structure with a brick and art-deco facade.." (83).
What is Mark Keppel High School?
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
Identify the subject and correct verb in the following sentence.
Each of the players is/are getting warmed-up.
What is "Each," subject, and "is," verb.
This is due to the fact that each is singular and players cannot be the subject because it's in the prepositional phrase!
Name any of the rivers described in the first three chapters of Always Running, other than the LA River.
What is the Hondo River, the San Gabriel River, or even the Tijunga Wash.
His nickname is based on his pointy chin.
Who is Luis?
"Oh sure, she once ran out naked to to catch a _____ man with a letter that didn't belong to us" (59).
Who is Tia Chucha and "post" man?
A specific name of a person or place, and therefore is capitalized.