Parts of Speech
Sentence "Chunks"
Lingo
Easily Confused
Application
100
identified by the determiners a, an, and the
What are nouns?
100
A sequence of words that includes a subject and a predicate
What is a clause?
100
One independent clause acting as the main clause is also known as this.
What is a simple sentence?
100
A/An albatross hung about his neck.
What is "An?"
100
Sonny and Cher sang the song "I Got You, Babe." The subject of this sentence
What is "Sonny and Cher?"
200
This part of speech modifies nouns and noun phrases.
What are adjectives?
200
A simple sentence consists of these two phrases.
What is a noun phrase and a verb phrase?
200
An open class of ever-evolving words
What is the form class words?
200
Its/It's a matter of life or death!
What is "It's?"
200
I do not like green eggs and ham. In this sentence, what is "green eggs and ham" functioning as?
What is a noun phrase?
300
This part of speech answers the following questions: how, where, and when.
What are adverbs?
300
Contains at least one noun but may also include modifiers.
What is a noun phrase?
300
The -er form of adjectives
What is the comparative?
300
The old prospector told us never to go their/there.
What is "there?"
300
The students studied for the grammar test in the library. The function of the prepositional phrase in this sentence.
What is adverbial?
400
The FANBOYS are all this type of conjunction.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
400
A sentence containing two independent clauses
What is a compound sentence?
400
Nouns that are singular but include multiple individuals
What are collective nouns?
400
Their/They're the best students a teacher could ask for.
What is "They're?"
400
If you give a cat a cupcake, she's going to want some sprinkles. Identify the portion of the sentence that comes before the comma.
What is the dependent clause?
500
Morphemes used to identify different form class words
What are derivational affixes?
500
A sentence containing one independent clause and one dependent clause
What is a complex sentence?
500
The noun or noun phrase that receives the action of the verb
What is the direct object?
500
He knew that he did good/well on his grammar unit test.
What is "well?"
500
Billy played hard but lost the game anyway. Best way to correct the sentence.
What is the sentence is correct as it is.
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