Noun - a person, place, thing or idea
Verb - the action or state of being in a sentence
100
What part of speech are the words IN ALL CAPITALS?
"Forget about YOUR foolish pride, and take ME to the other side." -Stephen Tyler
they are pronouns
100
What is the purpose of this sentence? (Answer with Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, or Exclamatory)
"Stop touching him!!"
Imperative
100
What is the subject of a sentence?
Who or what the sentence is about
100
A simple sentence is made up of...
One independent clause
200
Define adjective and adverb
Adjective = word that describes a noun
Adverb = word that describes when, where, or how an action (verb) occurred
200
What part of speech are the words IN ALL CAPITALS?
"People are STRANGE when you're a stranger, faces look UGLY when you're alone." - Jim Morrison
They are adjectives
200
What is the purpose of this sentence? (Answer with Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, or Exclamatory)
"Can't we all just get along?"
Interrogative
200
What is the predicate of a sentence?
What that subject is doing.
200
A complex sentence is made up of...
Two or more independent clauses. The clauses are joined by a conjunction and a comma or with a semicolon.
300
Define preposition and give 2 examples
a word placed before a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that gives more information about another part of a sentence.
examples include (but are not limited to) outside, underneath to, inside, around, on, above, below
300
What part of speech are the words IN ALL CAPITALS?
"He LIVES in a pineapple under the sea, absorbent and yellow and porous IS he." -A salty old sailing captain
They are verbs
300
What is the purpose of this sentence?
"I walk an empty street; I'm on the boulevard of broken dreams, where the city sleeps; I know I'm still alive and I walk alone."
Declarative
300
"Brent and Joe were dancing a merry jig when Liz walked in the room."
What is the subject?
What is the predicate?
Subject = Brent and Joe
Predicate = everything else
300
A complex sentence is made up of...
1 or more independent clauses with one or more subordinate clauses.
400
Define conjunction and list all seven of the coordinating conjunctions used in the English language
a word that joins two phrases, two parts of a sentence, or items in a list
and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet
400
What part of speech are the words in ALL CAPITALS?
"Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you AGAIN
Because a vision SOFTLY creeping
Left its seeds WHILE I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
STILL remains
WITHIN the sound of silence" -Paul Simon
They are prepositions
400
What is the purpose of this sentence?
"Hey, I just met you, and this might be crazy, but here's my number, so call me maybe."
Imperative (polite version)
400
"Brent and Joe were dancing a merry jig when Liz walked in the room."
What is the subordinate clause?
"when Liz walked in the room"
400
A compound - complex sentence is made up of ...
AND
Give an example of a compound-complex sentence
two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause.
500
Tell what the parts of speech are for all the words in this sentence:
"Holy Mother of Carlos! On Tuesday, the moist boi ate his cake slowly and happily."
Interjection: Holy Mother of Carlos!
Nouns: Tuesday, boi, cake
Adjective: moist
Verb: ate
Preposition: on
Adverbs: Tuesday, slowly, happily
Conjunction: and
500
What part of speech are the words IN ALL CAPITALS?
"Never gonna give you UP, never gonna let you DOWN, never gonna run AROUND, and desert you."
They are prepositions
500
What is the purpose of this sentence?
AND
What is the subject and what is the predicate?
"A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one."
Declarative
Subject "A surprise"
Predicate "to be sure, but a welcome one."
500
"I am so tired of studying for exams; We all just want to play games and eat ice cream."
What are the two subjects?
What are the two predicates?
Subs = I and we
Predicates = am so tired of studying for exams and all just want to play games and eat ice cream
500
"Tom and Nick walked to the movies, but they were stopped on the road by bandits, all the while Connor watched from the shadows, and he laughed as his revenge approached."
What kind of sentence is this? Explain which part is a subordinate clause.