Sentence and Fragments
An incomplete sentence that is missing either a subject or predicate.
What is a sentence fragment
What is a run-on sentence?
What is two or more sentences joined together without a conjunction or a proper punctuation mark?
This type of noun names a general person, place, thing, or idea and is lowercase unless it starts a sentence.
What is a common noun?
This sentence type makes a statement and ends with a period.
What is a declarative sentence?
To make most regular nouns plural, such as "cat" or "book," you add this suffix.
What is "s"?
Identify the error in this example: "Running down the crowded sidewalk."
What is a fragment (missing a subject/independent clause)?
State three conjunctions.
What is "And", "but", "for", "so"
This type of noun names a specific person, place, or thing and must always be capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
This sentence type asks a question and ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
Add the correct plural suffix (−s−s or −es−es) to the noun "church."
What is "churches"?
Every complete sentence requires at least one independent clause, which must contain these two core components.
What are a subject and a verb?
Correct this run-on sentence using a comma and a coordinating conjunction: "I wanted to go to the park it started raining."
What is "I wanted to go to the park, but it started raining"?
Identify the proper noun(s) in this sentence: "My family visited the Eiffel Tower in Paris."
What are Eiffel Tower and Paris?
What is the difference between an exclamatory sentence and imperative sentence? This sentence type gives a command or makes a request and usually implies the subject "you."
What is an imperative sentence gives a command and an exclamatory sentence expresses strong emotion or excitement and ends with an exclamation point?
Spell the plural form of the noun "baby."
What is babies (changing the "y" to "i" and add "es"?
Fix this fragment by attaching it to an independent clause: "Because she forgot her umbrella."
What is "She got soaked because she forgot her umbrella"?
Correct this run on sentence: "We had pancakes I wanted waffles"
What is "We had pancakes, but I wanted waffles", "We had pancakes. I wanted waffles", "We had pancakes and I wanted waffles"
In the sentence "The president gave a speech on Tuesday," classify the underlined/bolded words: president and Tuesday.
What are common noun (president) and proper noun (Tuesday)?
Give an example of an imperative sentence?
What is "go clean your room"?
Explain the rule for why "day" becomes "days" while "party" becomes "parties."
What is the rule where a "y" preceded by a vowel just takes an "s", but a "y" preceded by a consonant changes to "i" and takes "es"?
Explain why this group of words is a fragment despite having a subject and a verb: "When the clock struck midnight."
What is a dependent (subordinate) clause that leaves an incomplete thought?
Rewrite this run-on by turning it into two separate sentences: "We finished our exams we celebrated with ice cream."
What is "We finished our exams. We celebrated with ice cream"?
Convert the common noun "city" into a proper noun, and write a sentence using it.
What is a specific city name (e.g., Tokyo, Chicago) used in a sentence? (Example: "We traveled to Tokyo.")
Change this sentence from declarative to interrogative. "The trees are green."
What is "Why are the trees green?"
Provide the plural forms of these three trickier words: box, family, and toy.
What are boxes, families, and toys?