Parts of Speech 1
Names a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
Who or what the sentence is talking about
What is a subject?
This faithful woman stood near the shipyard gate. The type of phrase in the sentence.
What is a prepositional phrase?
A clause that can stand alone.
What is an independent clause?
Connects words or groups of words in a sentence.
What is a conjunction?
Names a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
Places the verb or a part of the verb before the subject
What is inverted order?
A noun or pronoun that renames or identifies a preceding noun or pronoun.
What is an appositive phrase?
A clause cannot stand alone and mostly use subordinating conjunctions as introductory words. A type of dependent clause.
What is an adverb clause?
A verb that has no complement.
What is an intransitive verb?
Name at least 5 personal pronouns.
What are I, you, it, he she, we, they?
Makes a statement and is followed by a period.
What is a declarative sentence?
A phrase that is independent from the rest of the sentence.
What is an absolute phrase?
Who, whom, whose, which, and that.
What are relative pronouns?
Combine with the main verb to form the complete verb.
What is an auxiliary/help verb?
Name two reciprocal pronouns
each other, one another
Compare the family values of different cultures with your own. What is the subject and verb in the sentence.
S: understood you; V: compare
Three types of verbals.
What are participles, gerunds, and infinitives?
A clause that keeps the introductory subordinating conjunction but omit certain other words that are clearly understood from the context.
What is an elliptical adverb clause?
Modifies verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
What is an adverb?
Name seven coordinating conjunctions
and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so
The researcher considered our apples the best in the country. What is the sentence pattern.
S-Trv-DO-OC
The verbal that functions as a noun, a adj, and an adv.
What is infinitive?
Two independent clauses wrong joined by a comma only.
What is a comma splice?
Three types of intervening phrases when dealing with identifying subject in the sentence.
What are prepositional, appositive, and negative phrases?