Parts of a Sentence
A group of words that have a subject and it's predicate and makes a complete thought
What is a sentence?
A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another one of itself.
What is an adverb?
A group of words without a subject and it's predicate that acts like a single part of speech.
What is a phrase?
What is an independent clause?
What is the subject in the following sentence? "The frog liked to jump a lot."
What is "frog"?
The noun or pronoun that the sentence is about.
What is a simple subject?
Proper, Common, Concrete, Abstract.
What are the four types of nouns?
The third level of grammar
What is phrases?
A clause that doesn't make sense unless it can hang onto an independent clause.
What is a dependent clause?
"Can you get me some water?" This sentence isn't declarative, it is...
What is interrogative?
A double subject with more than one noun or pronoun used as a double subject of the same clause.
What is a compound subject?
and, but, or, nor, for, so, and yet are examples of what type of conjunctions
What are coordinating conjunctions?
Appositive, Prepositional, Verbal are the _______
What are the three types of phrases?
Contains one independent clause.
What is a simple clause
"My uncle is the clown of the family." What kind of phrase is shown here? Bonus point: what word starts the phrase?
What is a prepositional phrase; of
The subject may take a __________ as it's predicate.
What is a compound verb?
A word that shows the relationship between it's object and another word in the sentence.
What is preposition?
What kind of a phrase is a gerund in?
Verbal phrase
Contains one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex clause?
What is the D.O. of the sentence: "The man ate the delicious chocolate cake."
What is cake?
The combination of a simple subject and simple predicate that is always present as a nucleus in every idea, in every sentence, and in every clause
What is a Subject/Predicate Set?
What are the 5 types of pronouns?
What are: Possessive, Interrogative, Demonstrative, Relative, Reflexive
A phrase beginning with a preposition used as a modifier and concluding w/ the object of the preposition.
What is a prepositional phrase?
Contains 2 or more independent or dependent clauses.
What is a compound complex clause?
What kind of phrase is used in this sentence? "The teacher, who loved cookies, always bought one with her lunch."
What is an appositive phrase?