Parts of Speech Power
Identify the part of speech of the word "cat" in the following sentence.
The cat slept on the warm windowsill.
What is "noun"?
What type of sentence is this?
The sun set behind the mountains.
What is a "Simple Sentence"?
Is this a clause or a phrase?
“Running through the hallway”
What is "Phrase"? – it has no subject doing a verb
What does the acronym FANBOYS stand for?
What is "for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so"?
Is this sentence in active or passive voice?
“The cake was eaten by the children.”
What is "passive voice"?
What part of speech describes a noun or pronoun?
What is "adjective"?
Which sentence is compound?
A) I enjoy reading books.
B) I went to the store, and I bought some milk.
C) Because I was tired, I went to bed early.
What is "B) I went to the store, and I bought some milk.?"
Identify the independent clause in this sentence:
“Because I was hungry, I made a sandwich.”
What is “I made a sandwich”?
What kind of conjunction is used in this sentence:
“We wanted to go to the game, but it started raining.”
What is "but"? (coordinating conjunction)
Change this sentence to active voice:
“The homework was completed by Sarah.”
What is "Sarah completed the homework."?
Choose the proper noun in this sentence:
We visited Chicago during our summer break.
What is "Chicago"?
Identify the independent and dependent clauses in this sentence:
“Although it was raining, we went to the park.”
What is
Dependent clause: “Although it was raining”
Independent clause: “we went to the park”
What kind of phrase is italicized?
He ran with great speed down the field.
What is "Prepositional phrase"?
Choose the correct subordinating conjunction to complete the sentence:
“I couldn’t concentrate ___ I was so tired.”
A) and
B) because
C) but
What is "B) because"?
Which sentence is written in the future tense?
A) I walk to school every day.
B) I walked to school yesterday.
C) I will walk to school tomorrow.
D) I am walking to school now.
What is "C) I will walk to school tomorrow."?
Replace the italicized noun with a pronoun:
Sarah went to the store to buy groceries.
What is "she"?
What kind of sentence is this?
“I wanted to go hiking, but it started to snow, so we stayed home.”
What is "compound-complex sentence"?
Identify both the dependent clause and the type of phrase in this sentence:
“Although she was tired, Maya kept working to finish her project.”
What is Dependent clause: “Although she was tired" & Phrase: “to finish her project” is a verb phrase
Identify the dependent marker word in this sentence:
“Although he studied hard, he didn’t pass the test.”
What is "although"? (subordinating conjunction)
Which sentence correctly uses past tense?
A) She run to the store yesterday.
B) She runs to the store yesterday.
C) She ran to the store yesterday.
D) She running to the store yesterday.
What is "C) She ran to the store yesterday."?
Identify three parts of speech in this sentence:
The quick fox quietly jumped over the sleeping dog.
What is "quick" or "sleeping" – adjective
"fox" or "dog" – noun "quietly" – adverb
"jumped" – verb "over" – preposition
Identify the sentence type and explain:
“After I finished my homework, I watched a movie, and my sister played a game.”
What is "Compound-Complex sentence"?
What type of phrase is in this sentence, and how is it functioning?
“The girl with the red backpack is my sister.”
What is...
Phrase: “with the red backpack” is a prepositional phrase
Function: It’s acting as an adjective phrase, describing “girl”
Combine the two simple sentences into a compound sentence using an appropriate coordinating conjunction:
“I wanted ice cream. The shop was closed.”
“I wanted ice cream, but the shop was closed.”
(Other FANBOYS could work depending on meaning, but “but” fits best here.)
One of these sentences has an incorrect verb tense. Identify it.
A) I watched a movie with my friends last night.
B) He walks to school every morning.
C) They played soccer after school.
D) We will eats lunch at noon.
What is "D) We will eats lunch at noon."?