Verbal Phrases
This type of verbal phrase ends with -ing and functions as a noun.
Ex: Running is my favorite sport.
Gerund Phrase
Identify the parts of speech and diagram the following sentence:
Our school has a dramatic club, the Thespian Society.
Appositive Phrase Exercise 1: answer 1
Ex: We decided to go shopping.
Independent Clause
Adverb
A phrase that is a noun or a pronoun which usually follows another noun or pronoun and restates it to help identify or explain it.
Ex: Jimmy, a star athlete, will surely get a scholarship to college.
Appositive Phrase
This verbal phrase ends in -ing, -d, -t, or -n and acts as adjectives.
Ex: I hear running water.
Participle Phrase
Identify the parts of speech and diagram the following sentence:
Before the guests left the ballroom, they thanked their hosts.
Example #1 under Adverb Clauses
A group of words with a subject and verb modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. It answers the questions: how, when, where, or why.
Ex: Before the game started, we ate lunch.Adverb Clauses
Connects words, phrases, and clauses.
Conjunctions
Type of verb that connects the subject to a noun or adjective that helps in describing or providing additional information about the subject.
Linking Verb
This verbal phrase consists of the word to + a verb, and they act as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs.
Ex: I love to run.
Infinitive Phrase
Identify the parts of speech and diagram the following sentence:
We thanked the man whose shovel we had borrowed.
Example #4 under Adjective Clause
A type of clause that does the work of an adjective by modifying a noun or a pronoun.
Ex: Yvette, who lived in France, quickly learned English.
Adjective Clause
Refers to the words that are used before a noun, pronoun, or gerund to show a place, time, or direction.
Preposition
An adjective clause will always be introduced in a sentence using this type of pronoun.
Relative pronoun.
These verbal phrases are diagrammed up from the baseline.
Gerund Phrases and Infinitive Phrases
Identify the parts of speech and diagram the following sentence:
His message was that he would not be home for dinner.
#2 in Noun Clause Exercise 1
This type of clause does not express a complete thought or a complete sentence.
Ex: After it stopped raining, we played softball.
Dependent (Subordinate) Clause
A thing or concept.
I.E. A person, place, or thing
Noun
Tells what action something or someone is performing.
Action Verb
These verbal phrases are diagrammed down from the baseline.
Participial Phrases and Prepositional Phrases
Identify the parts of speech and diagram the following sentence:
The gleam of the match which he struck shone upon his clotted fingers and upon the ghastly pool which widened from the crushed skull of the victim.
Extra credit diagram under Noun Clause test
A subordinate clause used as a noun in the sentence. It may be a subject, a complement (direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative), or the object of the preposition.
Ex: What he said surprised me.
Noun clause
Refers to the words that are used before a noun to modify the noun.
Hint: This part of speech does not characterize the noun during its modification.
Article
Added before another verb to make it a verb phrase.
Helping Verb