Types of Sentences
The type of sentence that asks a question and always ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence.
All the words that tell about what the subject is or does.
What is the complete predicate.
Name of the main word in the complete subject.
What is the simple subject.
Choose the correct word for the sentence [their, they're, or there]: We spent the evening at ______ house enjoying a bonfire.
What is their.
Jill jumped on the bed and fell on the floor. The compound predicate is: jumped on the bed.
False
Name the type of sentence: Messi is the best soccer player in the world!
What is an exclamatory sentence.
Find the simple predicate: I went for a walk along the beach.
What is went.
Name the simple subject: The air in the room smelled musty.
What is air.
Has two or more simple predicates, or verbs, that have the same subject.
Compound Predicate
Quotation marks should only be used for direct quotes, not indirect quotes.
True.
Name the type of sentence: Don't forget to bring your favorite book to school.
What is an imperative sentence.
Find the complete predicate- Our whale watching cruise along the coastline of Africa was fun.
What is: was fun.
Contains two or more simple subjects with the same predicate.
What is a compound subject.
Name the word that normally should not be capitalized unless placed at the start of a sentence: Monday, Winter, Christmas, March.
What is winter.
True or false: When a question ends with a title in quotations, place the question mark outside of the quotation marks.
True.
The type of sentence that makes a statement and is punctuated with a period.
What is a declarative sentence.
What is the compound predicate. Yesterday I went to the beach and swam in the ocean.
What is went to the beach and swam in the ocean.
Find the subject: Mom or Dad drove Mason to the movies.
Who is Mom or Dad
Has two or more simple subjects, that have the same predicate.
What is a compound subject.
Do not use a comma before a word used as an interrupter, such as however, but do use a comma after it.
False
The type of sentence that can end in either a period or an exclamation mark.
What is an imperative sentence.
Find the compound predicate: Yesterday afternoon I made myself a sandwich, cleaned the refrigerator and played the piano before going to bed.
What is made myself a sandwich, cleaned the refrigerator and played the piano.
Find the subject: Later on today, the students, staff and parents will attend chapel.
What is students, staff and parents.
What is the plural of focus.
What is foci.
This sentence contains a compound predicate: Nobody in the bank and nobody in the store next to it saw what happened to the tortoise after it fell under the bridge.
False.