Parts of Speech
This is a person, place, thing or animal
What is a noun?
This verb tense is used to describe common habits or basic facts
What is the simple present tense?
This modal verb can be used to reflect ability, circumstance, or request permission
What is "can"?
This clause can stand alone and form its own sentence.
What is an independent clause?
The three main types of sentences are "simple, compound and _____________"
What is "complex"?
This shows an action or a state
What is a verb?
This verb tense is used for single events that have happened already
What is the simple past tense?
This modal verb is used for giving advice, but does not require action from the person requested.
What is "should"?
This clause cannot stand alone as a complete sentence, and requires and independent clause to complete it.
What is a dependent clause?
These are used to indicate words taken from someone like "_____________"
What are quotation or speech marks?
This describes a noun and usually comes before it in a sentence.
What is an adjective?
This verb tense is used to describe what is going to happen?
What is the future tense?
Although the modal verb "must" requires the listener to take action, this inverse (opposite) phrase does not.
What is "don't have to"
This clause uses words like "that, which and who" to add information about something already described earlier in the sentence
What is a noun clause?
The word "indubitably" from the Schoolhouse Rock video uses this type of adverbial using the letters "-ly". It is the opposite of a "prefix".
What is a suffix?
This describes a verb and answers the questions how, how much, in which manner and to what extent?
What is an adverb?
This verb tense describes an action that has been started, but has not yet been completed, or may be continued.
What is the present perfect tense?
This modal verb has a similar meaning to "should," but is a phrase (two words).
What is "ought to"?
This clause uses a subordinating conjunction like "because, if, or while" to start it.
What is an adverb clause?
These words include "although, because, while, if, and whether"
What are subordinators?
These are short words that show the location of something.
What is a preposition?
This verb tense describes what happened before another event in the simple past tense.
What is the past perfect or pluperfect tense?
This modal verb is primarily used for politeness, but is also used for hypothetical situations (possibility)
What is "may"?
This clause uses a relative pronoun like "who" and an adjective to describe this type of clause.
What is an adjective clause?
This is one of the first things to include in a letter of refusal and shows "knowledge" that you have read the person's letter before responding.
What is "acknowledgement"?