May contain the subject or the predicate of a sentence but never both - and sometimes neither. Can not stand alone.
What is a phrase?
100
Identify the prepositions in the sentences below.
Sentence #1 - "Soccer players wear protective gear on the field."
Sentence #2 - "The cat was under the table."
What is on an under?
100
Identify the common noun and the proper noun.
"The kids asked their mother the name of the bridge they were going over and the mother told them the Ben Franklin Bridge."
What is bridge-common noun and Ben Franklin Bridge - proper noun?
100
This clause can stand alone.
What is an independent clause?
100
This sentence is made up of more than one independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
200
A group of words that contains both a subject and a predicate.
What is a clause?
200
This clause depends on another clause and cannot stand alone.
What is a dependent clause?
200
Identify the adjective and the noun that it is describing.
"Christopher left his oversized jacket on the bus."
What is what is oversized and jacket?
200
What is the acronym FANBOYS?
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
200
This word refers to specific person or thing. It modifies a pronoun.
What is an antecedent?
300
Name the pronoun and the antecedent in the sentence. Kim looked as though she had seen a ghost.
What is pronoun "she" and antecedent "Kim"?
300
This word is that is used in place of a noun.
What is pronoun?
300
This sentence has at least two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction, as well as one or more dependent clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
300
This word describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
Name four subordinating conjunctions.
check list
400
"We have fun whenever my cousins come over, but they won't visit us until they sell their house."
Identify what type of sentence this is.
What is compound sentence?
400
Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence.
"Jason rode his bike to the store."
What is to the store?
400
What are the two independent clauses joined by to form a compound sentence?
What is a coordinating conjunction?
400
Identify the adjective in the sentence.
The girl had long, luscious, red hair.
What is long, luscious, and red?
400
Identify the pronoun in the sentence. Identify the antecedent to the pronounce.
"Christopher lost his hat and realized that he left it on the bus."
What is "his"-pronoun, and "Christopher" - antecedent?
500
What kind of sentence is a dependent clause?
What is fragment sentence?
500
Identify the dependent and the independent clauses in the sentence below.
"Before he went to the bathroom, he played in the hallway for ten minutes."
What is "Before he went to the bathroom"- dependent, and "he played in the hallway for ten minutes"- independent
500
This is a word that relates a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
500
This is a phrase or clause is intended to modify a certain word in a sentence but it is in the wrong place. As a result, it connects the wrong words or ideas to each other and confuses the reader.
What is what id a misplaced modifier?
500
A phrase or clause intended to modify a certain word, but the word is not actually stated in the sentence, or it is stated but the word seems to modify a different word.