Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a conjunction?
A conjunction is a word used to link two sentences.
What is a subject?
A subject is the subject of a sentence. (What the sentence is about.)
What is a complement?
Complements are words or groups of words that make the meaning of a verb complete.
Which letters need to be capitalized?
last tuesday, Frank’s family left to go to edmonton.
Last, Tuesday, Edmonton.
What is an adjective?
An adjective describes a noun.
What is a preposition?
A preposition tells where an object is relative to another one.
What is a predicate?
A predicate is the part of the sentence where you are told about the subject Ex. James ran up the hill.
What is an object complement?
An object complement follows a direct object, describes or identifies by asking what. Can be adjectives, nouns or pronouns.
Which letters are incorrectly capitalized?
During the trip, Frank Experienced what it was like to be hit by A baseball bat.
Experienced, A
What is an adverb?
An adverb modifies a verb or another adverb.
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is used in place of a noun.
What is a compound subject?
A compound subject is when the sentence has more than one subject Ex. Jack and Jill.
What is a subject complement?
They describe or identify subjects.
ind the places with misplaced commas.
During the zombie, movie, Jake left right as the apocalypse, scene started playing.
zombie, apocalypse,
What is a verb?
A verb is a state of being or an action.
Find the verb:
Jake jumped into the incinerator.
Jumped
What is a compound predicate?
When a sentence has more than one predicate Ex. The cat jumped and ate the mouse.
What is a predicate adjective?
A kind of subject complement, describing the subject, can follow any linking verb.
Find the places with misplaced semicolons.
After the run; we will now; go to the checkpoint.
run; now;
What is an interjection?
An interjection is usually a short or singular word used to quickly convey an emotion.
Find the conjunction:
Isaac made a hole in the wall so he had to fix the hole.
So
What is an indirect object?
An indirect object compliments that answer for what, to what, for whom, to whom after an action verb.
What is a predicate nominative?
Subject complements that identify the subject, usually found after formes of the verb “be”, can also follow after certain kinds of linking verbs
Find the error in the sentence. “james ate pie and cupcakes.”
James