Parts of Speech
This is a person, place, thing, idea, or event.
What is a noun?
Pronouns or [blank] can be a sentence's subject.
What are nouns?
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.
True or False? A complex sentence is an independent clause joined together with a dependent clause.
What is "true"?
True or false? A verb is the only part of speech that can be the predicate of a sentence.
What is "True"?
In Mr. Dean's class, we do this to the subject while diagramming sentences.
What is circle the subject?
Fragment or not? "Even though I ran out of gas."
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. It often ends in -ly.
What is an adverb?
This is the subject of the following sentence:
"Sometimes I like a nice peanut butter and pickle sandwich."
What is "I"?
We learned to say this in front of a phrase to test if it's a fragment or not.
What is, "I believe that..."?
What is a comma splice?
When you (incorrectly) join two sentences with just a comma.
What does "subco" mean?
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?
This is the predicate in the following sentence:
"The butterfly quickly darted to and fro."
What is "darted"?
Why would we purposely make a fragment by adding a subordinating conjunction to an independent clause?
In order to make a complex sentence.
Run-on or not?
Although it saves time to shorten it, we should remember that "subco" means "subordinating conjunction."
What is "not"?
Explain how to turn these two sentences into one complex sentence:
I climbed a ladder that was almost flat against the wall. I ended up with a concussion.
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. "Don't add salt to Mr Josh's moose soup because it's already perfect."
What is "(You)"?
This will turn the following sentence into a fragment (give a specific example):
"She sliced the pear using her credit card."
What is a subordinating conjunction?
These are three ways to fix a run-on sentence.
What is?:
1. End punctuation and capitalization.
2. Comma+coco
3. Semicolon
Explain the comma rule for complex sentences.
Punctuation rule: If the dependent clause comes first, separate clauses with a comma. If the dependent clause comes last, do not use a comma.