Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
The person or thing that does the action of the verb.
What is the subject of the sentence?
True/False: a verb MUST agree with the subject of the sentence.
True
A complete sentence with a subject and verb that makes sense on its own.
What is an independent clause?
An adjective or phrase that is placed too far from the word(s) it modifies.
What is a dangling modifier?
Describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
The person or thing that got verbed.
What is the direct object of the sentence?
Verbs like: run, love, think, want, etc.
What are action verbs?
An incomplete idea, usually flagged by a SWABI
What is a dependent clause?
Pronouns with no obvious noun to which they refer.
What are unclear pronoun references?
Describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
The person who got the direct object.
Who is the indirect object?
Verbs like: am, is, are, will be, was, were, become
What are linking verbs?
An idea that lacks a subject, verb, or both.
What is a sentence fragment?
Verbal voice that has the subject DOING the verb.
What is the active voice?
Joins together ideas.
What is a conjunction?
The noun governed by a preposition.
What is the object of the preposition?
A sentence without any conjunctions has THIS MANY verb(s).
What is ONE verb?
An idea presented as one sentence, but is actually TWO ideas that are missing a FANBOYS.
What is a run-on sentence?
Verbal voice that has the subject getting verbed.
What is the passive voice?
Creates a positional or temporal relationship between an object and another idea.
What is a preposition?
The topic of a linking verb.
What is the subject of the sentence?
True/False: A verb MUST agree with direct object of the sentence.
False
This pronoun is the unstated subject of a command.
What is 'you'?
Convert the following sentence into the passive voice: "My dog found a tennis ball in the park."
What is: "A tennis ball was found by my dog in the park."?