These are the three types of subordinate clauses you learned about.
What is subordinate adjectival clauses, subordinate adverbial clauses, and subordinate noun clauses.
100
True or false: if the appositive phrases is essential commas are needed.
What is false. Nonessential appositive phrases use commas.
100
These are the two types of participial phrases.
What is past participial phrases and present participial phrases.
100
Infinitives are "to +____ " this
What is a verb. "to+a verb"
200
This type of prepositional phrase answers the questions what kind, which one, how many, and how much.
What is an adjectival phrase.
200
Subordinate adjectival clauses begin with these types of pronouns.
What is relative pronouns.
200
Appositive phrases do these three things:
What is identify, rename, or explain a noun or pronoun.
200
Present participial phrases generally end in this.
What is the suffix -ing.
200
Gerunds are a form of verbal that do this.
What is act as a noun such as the subject, D.O., I.O., and Object of the Prep.
300
"After the game, we all gathered and talked in the hall." In this sentence these adverbial phrases modifies gathered and talked.
What is "after the game" and "in the hall"
300
An elliptical clause is a clause in which the verb or the subject and verb are understood but not _____.
What is not stated or written in.
300
True or false: appositives modify adjectives and adverbs.
What is false they modify pronouns and nouns.
300
Participial phrases work as what?
What is adjectives.
300
Infinitives are different than prepositional phrases because unlike prepositional phrases, infinitive phrases act as these.
What is nouns, adjectives, or adverbs.
400
"I taught me sister to bike today." In this sentence "to bike" is...
What is an infinitive not a prepositional phrase.
400
The type of subordinate clause that acts as a noun is a ___.
What is a noun clause.
400
"I chose the colour neon blue, an unusual colour for a car." In this sentence the appositive phrases is ___.
What is "an unusual colour for a car."
400
"The girl waiting behind the counter is Jenna." The participial phrases in this sentence is this.
What is essential and present participial phrase.
400
(1) "Yelling, my brother upset me."
(2) My brother's yelling upset me."
The sentence that contains a gerund is.
What is sentence (2).
500
True or false: prepositional phrases contain a subject and can stand alone as a sentence.
What is false.
500
"Her brother resembles their father more than her." In this sentence the understood part or the not stated words are:
What is "Her brother resembles their father more than [he resembles] her." HE RESEMBLES HER
500
"I chose the colour neon blue, an unusual colour for a car." In this sentence the appositive phrases identifies what?
What is blue, an object compliment.
500
"We were exhausted from the ride to California." "We rested by the side of the rode." If we combined these sentences using an appositive phrase it would read like this.
What is "Exhausted by the ride to California, we rested by the side of the rode."
500
"We never listen to his shouting." VS "We never listen to him shouting." the sentence that is correct is ___"
What is "We never listen to his shouting." Always use the possessive from of personal pronouns in front of a gerund.