Parts of Speech
This is a person, place, thing, idea, or event.
What is a noun?
What is a noun? What is a pronoun?
A group of words that lacks these is a sentence fragment.
What is a subject, predicate, or both?
True or false: Run-on sentences are unnecessarily long, wordy sentences.
False.
This part of speech is the only one that can be the predicate of a sentence.
What is a verb?
In Mr. Dean's class, we do this to the subject and something else to the predicate while diagramming sentences.
What is circle the subject and box the predicate?
Fragment or not? "Because I don't like cheese or tomatoes."
What is "yes"?
This is the definition of a run-on sentence.
What is "having more than one subject and more than one predicate"?
This is the formula for a complex sentence.
What is?:
complex sentence=D+I
This part of speech describes how a verb is performed.
This is the subject of the following sentence:
"On his bald dome, the incredible sheen was bright enough to cause birds to run into buildings."
What is "sheen"?
We learned to say this in front of a phrase to test if it's a fragment or not.
What is, "I believe that..."?
This is a run-on sentence formed by joining two independent clauses with a comma.
What is a comma splice?
This is the type of conjunction used in a complex sentence.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
The word "around" in the following sentence is which part of speech?
"A man wrecked his truck in Kentucky when he rammed a snowman that had been built around a massive tree trunk."
True story!
What is a preposition?
"In the poem The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, the Jabberwocky must be some sort of bizarre, dangerous creature."
What is "be"?
Why would we purposely make a fragment by adding a subordinating conjunction to an independent clause?
Run-on or not? "In order to create a complex sentence, we sometimes put a subordinating conjunction in front of an independent clause."
What is "not"?
This is one way to turn this sentence into a complex sentence:
You should always tip the baristas at Mocha Dan's for good service.
What is:
Mr. Dean will judge.
The entire list of coordinating conjunctions.
What are the FANBOYS? For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
This is the subject of the following sentence. "Go home tonight and play with your little plastic spaceships, Mr. Dean."
What is "(You)"?
This will turn the following sentence into a fragment (give a specific example):
"She sliced the pear using the ice scraper from her car."
What is a subordinating conjunction?
These are four ways to fix a run-on sentence.
What is?:
1. End punctuation and capitalization.
2. Comma+coco
3. Semicolon
4. Conjunctive Adverb
Name 5 subordinating conjunctions and explain the punctuation rule for complex sentences.
5 subcos: Mr. Dean will judge
Punctuation rule: If the dependent clause comes first, separate clauses with a comma. If the dependent clause comes last, do not use a comma.