Of the all the nouns discussed, these are the only ones that you will find at the end of a prepositional phrase.
What is the Object of the Preposition?
100
These little guys act like equal signs.
What is a Linking Verb?
100
These clauses can stand by themselves.
What is an Independent Clause?
100
These can be confusing because they can be used in the Progressive Tense, but they can also be used to describe something...presently, of course.
What is The Present Participle?
100
There seven of them, and if you say them fast enough, it sounds like another language.
What are the FANBOYS?
200
This person, place or thing is usually the person doing the verb.
What is the subject?
200
These helpful verbs cannot stand by themselves, but they do what they can.
What is a Helping Verb?
200
These can function just like nouns, but they have more than one word, mainly a subject and a verb.
What are Noun Clauses?
200
"To be" or not "to be," this little piggy is not a verb, but he wants to be.
What is an Infinitive?
200
This is what happens when you use a comma when you should have used a period instead.
What is a Comma Splice?
300
This is the noun function you get when you ask, "who did the verb?"
What is direct object.
300
"Lights, Camera, This! It's also the name for verbs that we like to do.
What are Action Verbs?
300
These clauses cannot stand by themselves. In fact, they depend on another clause in the sentence.
What is Dependent Clause?
300
These can help a lot, but remember the other verb who gets the help never gets a verb ending.
What is a Modal Helping Verb?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!
It doesn't matter if it's present, past or the future because when you are using the perfect tense, you are are using this.
What is the Past Participle?
400
The noun at the end of this sentence, "I want to go home," is a place where we can unwind and have some food, but in this sentence it's actually functioning as this.
What is a modifer?
(Adverbial) Where do you want to go?
400
This is the Verb Tense you want to use when the subject is doing something while something else happened.
What is the Progressive Tense?
400
Using this is just another way to rename a noun.
What is an Appositive?
400
Be careful! We have seen these verbs before! They are not past Tense Verbs, but they can still end in -ed and actually describe something, too.
What is the Past Participle?
400
These three little pigs are not verbs, but they look like it.
What are the Verbals?
500
You are already one of these types of Nouns. You can tell because your name begins with a Capital letter.
What is a Proper Noun?
500
Of the four tenses dicussed, this is the easiest because it's this.
What is the Simple Tense?
500
These are confusing becasue they are describing the wrong noun in the sentence. Some people would say are just in the wrong place.
What is a Misplaced Modifer?
500
Daily Double!!
These things end with the present participle, but they can also be a noun or as in an activity or something we like to do.
What is Gerund?
500
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