Types of Sentences
What type of sentence makes a statement, usually a fact, and ends with a period.
What is a declarative sentence
The _________ of a sentence is what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
Must express a complete thought and contain both a subject and a predicate.
What is a complete sentence?
Have been defined as the names of persons, places, things, and ideas.
What is a noun?
This type of noun indicates that there is only one person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a singular noun?
What type of sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
The _____________ is the main noun or pronoun in a sentence.
What is simple subject?
Are incomplete sentences.
What is a fragment?
All the nouns in the following sentence:
My sister lives in Malaysia.
What is sister and Malaysia?
This type of noun indicates that there are two or more persons, places, things, or ideas.
What is a plural noun?
What type of sentence gives a command or a request and usually ends with a period.
What is an imperative sentence?
The __________ of a sentence makes a statement about the subject
What is the predicate?
Consists of two sentences incorrectly joined by only a comma.
What is a comma splice?
All the nouns in the following sentence:
He hung his head in shame.
What is head and shame?
This type of noun shows ownership or belonging. They tell who or what owns a thing.
What is possessive nouns?
What type of sentence expresses strong emotion or feeling and ends with an exclamation point.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
The ________________ is the main verb in a sentence.
What is the simple predicate?
Consists of two or more sentences incorrectly joined without any punctuation at all.
What is a fused sentence?
All the nouns in the following sentence:
The sun will swallow the earth one day.
What are sun, earth, and day?
All possessive nouns must have these.
What is apostrophes?
What is the simple subject of this sentence:
Pedro went to the parade.
What is Pedro?
What is the simple predicate of this sentence:
Pedro went to the parade.
What is went?
What type of error is in the following sentence:
The players used rackets they did not hit the ball with their hands.
What is a fused sentence?
All the nouns in the following sentence:
The doctor told Sue that medicines alone would not help the patient.
What are doctor, Sue, medicines, and patient?
To make a singular noun possessive, one must add this to the ending.
What is an apostrophe s?