The Parts of Speech
Finding the Subject and Verb
Subject Verb Agreement
Finding the Simple Subject
Identifying the Verb
100
FANBOYS
What is a conjuction
100
To + a verb. For example, "to swim"
What is the infinitive form
100
You
What is second person
100
What is the simple subject? The football stadium was surrounded by skyscrapers and freeways.
The football stadium
100
Is the verb an action, linking, or helping verb? The wrestler hurled his opponent out of the ring.
Action
200
Connecting words with no meaning. For example, of about, with, in
What is a preposition
200
A verb that cannot stand alone, is found in a verb phrase, and always comes before the main verb in the sentence
What is a helping verb
200
I, me, mine
What is first person
200
What is the simple subject? All light is made of photons.
light
200
Is the verb an action, linking, or helping verb? Wagging its tail, the dog ran to its master.
action
300
A word that expresses emotion. For example: Wow!
What is an interjection
300
A verb that tells us what a noun or pronoun does
What is an action verb
300
Nouns that name a group of people or things
What is a collective noun
300
What is the simple subject? Rescue workers pulled survivors from the airplane crash.
Rescue workers
300
Is the verb an action, linking, or helping verb? The International Space Station is the largest cooperative science project in history.
linking
400
I, me, mine
What is a pronoun?
400
A verb that links the subject to a group of words that rename the subject
What is a linking verb
400
both, few, many
What is an example of a plural indefinite pronoun
400
What is the simple subject? My father drinks six cups of coffee every day.
My father
400
Is the verb an action, linking, or helping verb? The longest time anyone has spent in a hot air balloon is 477 hours.
helping
500
A word that modifies nouns and pronouns
What is an adjective
500
Tells us who or what the sentence is about
What is the subject of the sentence
500
Anyone, each, many a
What is an example of a singular indefinite pronoun
500
What is the simple subject? Followed by Spain and Italy, France is the world's top tourist destination.
France
500
Is the verb an action, linking, or helping verb? North Dakota is the most rural of our fifty states.
linking verb
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u