Sentence Elements
Has one or more sentence parts missing, but they are understood
What is an elliptical sentence?
What is "salmon's"?
Form of the verb: Joshua DID LEAD the Israelites.
What is emphatic?
What are adjectives?
The complete predicate comes before the complete subject
What is an inverted sentence?
Comes between the verb and the direct object and tells "to whom/for whom"
What is the indirect object?
Plural of "basis"
What is bases?
Change to progressive form: Mr. Collins ate the boiled potatoes.
What is "Mr. Collins WAS EATING the boiled potatoes"?
What is True?
Gives a command or makes a request
What is an imperative sentence?
Immediately follows a noun or pronoun to identify or explain it
What is an appositive?
Three cases (jobs) of pronoun
What are nominative, objective, and possessive?
What is past perfect?
Give the comparative and superlative of "bad."
What is "worse, worst"?
Contains two or more independent clauses
What is a compound sentence?
Names the person or thing to whom one is speaking
What is the noun of direct address?
What is a gerund?
Label the verb tense: Calvin has annoyed his babysitter for many years.
What is present perfect?
Less indicates how much about a singular, and ____ indicates how many about a plural noun.
What is fewer?
Put a ______ after yes/no, interjections, and other independent elements at the beginning of a sentence.
What is a comma?
Follows a linking verb and MODIFIES the subject
What is a predicate adjective?
Four possible genders of a noun
What are M, F, Common, and Neuter?
A _______ verb transfers action to a substantive in the sentence.
What is transitive?
Adverbs modify 4 things:
What are verbs, adverbs, adjective, and verbals?
A ______ is used to join some compound words.